Abstract: John Henry Newman devoted his whole life to the Christian faith. What he took is an inner path to the faith. Though being brought up in a Protestant family, he was greatly affected by his Colleague’s Anglo-Catholicism in Oriel College. Moreover, he also took a transition from Evangelicalism to Revealed Religion. By publishing many tracts in Oxford movement, Newman expounded his religious theories and ideas that were regarded as Romeward. Consequently, he was criticized by the Anglican authorities. Owning to his faith and the pressures from the Anglicans, he converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1845. As a Catholic priest and then as a Cardinal, Newman made great contributions to the revival and development of Catholicism in England and even in modern world. The Canonization of Newman has started since 1991.

Keywords: faith; conversion; Oxford movement; Canonization

Dr. Chen Ruihong is Associate Professor in College of Liberal Arts at Nanjing Normal University, China. Her research focuses on Oscar Wilde Studies and British the Aesthetic Movement. She is author of “Oscar Wilde and the Problem of Christian Aestheticism”（2009）, “Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Redemption”（2011）and “Momentism in Oscar Wilde’s Works”（2015）. Her monograph Oscar Wilde: Pursuing Aestheticism in the Context of Modernity was published in 2015.