![]() ![]() … I believe that it had some influence on my opinions … in isolating me from the objects which surrounded me, in confirming me in my mistrust of the reality of material phenomena, and making me rest in the thought of two and two only absolute and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my creator.’ Apologia I fell under the influences of a definite Creed … I believed that the inward conversion of which I was conscious … would last into the next life, and that I was elected to eternal glory. ‘When I was fifteen a great change of thought took place in me. Writing about it later in life, he describes what happened as follows. When he was only fifteen, he would have a religious experience so strong that it would change his life forever. ![]() At the age of seven, Newman went to study at Great Ealing School. ![]() His family were practising members of the Church of England and therefore Newman was exposed to the Bible at an early age, becoming an avid reader of it. His father was a banker in the city and so John Henry Newman had a middle class upbringing on Southampton Street in Bloomsbury. He was the eldest of six and was the son of John and Jemima Newman. John Henry Newman was born on February 21st 1801 in London. ![]()
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