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Cardinal Jean Honoré is esteemed for his previous work on Newman. In this new book, he aims to establish the link between the life and the works of the Oxford convert. Newman's works are born of a personal experience which took place during circumstances and events that modified the course of his existence. In spite of their apparent continuity - which seems to suggest only two poles, Oxford and Birmingham - his everyday life reveals meetings and avatars, as mentioned in the notes of the ‘Letters & Diaries' he kept each day and now constitute thirty two volumes... What is so interesting here is this very relation between the writing and the ephemerides. The great themes of the Creed developed by Newman at each stage of his life always come from a reflection born of relations or situations, whose correspondence provides testimony and often commentary. This source is a concrete introduction to the chapters, each one treating a specific theme of Newman's thinking, lending them both modernity and intense interest. Readers will enjoy this book, which tells us more about the Creed of the Anglican Church one that has undergone certain recent events that reveal tensions and difficulties not unlike those Newman and his disciples might have known. What else is there to say? The very mention of Newman's name evokes a classic example of the evolution and the conversion he experienced. Now that the long-awaited beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman is on the agenda, no one can help readers better understand the meaning and the impact of his work than Cardinal Jean Honoré, France's finest expert of Newman.