Firmly I Believe and Truly The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England

An Anthology of Writings from 1483 to 1999 Firmly I Believe and Truly celebrates the depth and breadth of the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of the Post-Reformation English Roman Catholic tradition in an anthology of writings that span a five hundred year period between William Caxton and Cardinal Hume. Intended as a rich resource for all with an interest in Roman Catholicism, the writings have been carefully selected and edited by a team of scholars with historical, theological, and literary expertise. Each author is introduced to provide context for the included extracts and the chronological arrangement of the anthology makes the volume easy to use whilst creating a fascinating overview of the modern era in English Catholic thought. The extracts comprise a wide variety writing genres; sermons, prayers, poetry, diaries, novels, theology, apologetics, works of controversy, devotional literature, biographies, drama, and essays. Includes writings by: John Colet, John Fisher, Thomas More, Robert Southwell, Philip Howard, Edmund Campion, John Gother, John Dryden, Mary Barker, Alexander Pope, Richard Challoner, Alban Butler, John Milner, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nicholas Wiseman, Margaret Mary Hallahan, A. W. N. Pugin, John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning, Frederick William Faber, Bertrand Wilberforce, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Vincent McNabb, Hilaire Belloc, Maurice Baring, G. K. Chesterton, R. A. Knox, J. R. R. Tolkien, Caryll Houselander, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Bradburne, Cardinal Hume

Vincent Nichols: Foreword; General Introduction; Authors and Texts: Principles of Selection; Part 1: 1483-1688John Morrill: ; Introduction; William Caxton, c. 1420-1492; Wynkyn de Worde , d. 1534/5; Richard Pynson, 1448-1529; John Colet, c.1467-1519; Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, 1443-1509; St John Fisher, 1469-1535; Nicholas Harpsfield, 1519-1574; William Roper, 1498-1572; Margaret Roper, 1505-1544; St Thomas More, 1478-1535; Royal Injunctions, 1554; Reginald Cardinal Pole, 1500-1558; Bishop Edmund Bonner, c.1497-1569; Bishop Thomas Watson, 1513-1584; John Harpsfield, 1516-1578; John Heywood, c.1496-c.1578; Miles Huggarde, fl.1533-1557; Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, 1509-1556; Laurence Vaux, 1519-1585; Thomas Stapleton, 1535-1598; Pope Pius V, 1504-1572; A Defence of Regnans in Excelsis; William Cardinal Allen, 1532-1594; St Edmund Campion SJ, 1540-1581; Blessed Thomas Alfield, 1552-1585; The Words of Tortured Priests, 1582; Gregory Martin, c.1542-1582; A Manual of Prayers (i), 1583; Anne Dormer, Lady Hungerford, 1525-1603; Robert Parsons SJ, 1546-1610; St Robert Southwell, 1561-1595; Elizabeth Grymeston, c.1563-1604; Richard Verstegan, 1548-1640; St Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1557-1595; John Wilson, fl.1608; Henry Constable, 1562-1613; Benjamin Carier, 1566-1614; A Manual of Prayers (ii), 1618; The Venerable Mary Ward, 1585-1645; Edward Dawson SJ, c.1579-1622; William Stanney OFM, d.1626; Anthony Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, 1574-1629; Catherine Francis, fl.1628; Matthew Kellison, 1561-1642; (Helen) Gertrude More, 1606-1633); Augustine Baker OSB, 1575-1641; Richard Crashaw, c.1613-1649; Sir Basil Brooke, 1576-1646; Manual of Prayers (iii), 1650; Sir Kenelm Digby, 1603-1665; Thomas White ( Blacklo ), 1593-1676; Henry Holden, 1596-1662; St John Southworth, 1592-1654; Miles Pinkney (alias Thomas Carre), 1599-1674; Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 1637-1671; A Manual of Prayers (iv), 1687; Bishop John Leyburn, 1620-1702; Bishop Bonaventure Giffard, 1642-1734; Part 2: 1688 - 1850Michael Tomko: ; Introduction; John Gother, d. 1704; Edward Hawarden, 1622 1735; John Dryden, 1631 1700; Edward Scarisbrick (alias Neville) SJ, 1639 1709; Philip Leigh (alias Layton or Metcalfe) SJ, 1650 1717; Jane Barker, 1652 1732; Thomas Ward, 1652 1708; (Mary Howard) Mary of the Holy Cross OSC, 1653 1735; Sylvester Jenks (alias Metcalfe), 1656 1714; Thomas Tyldesley, 1657 1715 and Nicholas Blundell, 1669 1737; Christopher Tootell, 1662 1727; Hugh Tootell (alias Charles Dodd), 1671 1743; Alexander Pope, 1688 1744; Bishop Richard Challoner, 1691 1781; Alban Butler, 1710 1773; Thomas West (Daniel) SJ, 1720 1779; Joseph Reeve SJ, 1733 1820; Charles Plowden SJ, 1743-1821; Peter Newby, 1745 1827; Joseph Berington, 1746 1827; Charles Butler, 1750 1832; James Archer, 1751 1834; Bishop John Milner, 1752 1826; Elizabeth Inchbald, 1753 1821; Bishop William Poynter, 1762 1827; John Chetwode Eustace, 1762 1815; John Lingard, 1771 1851; William Eusebius Andrews, 1773 1837; George Leo Haydock, 1774 1849; Arthur Clifford, 1777 1830; Henry Weedall, 1788 1859; William Joseph Walter, 1789 1846; (Domenico Giovanni Luigi Barberi ) Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God CP, 1792 1849; (George Spencer) Ignatius of St Paul CP, 1799 1864; Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman, 1802 1865; (Margaret Mary Hallahan) Margaret of the Mother of God OP, 1803 1868; George Duncombe Cox, 1807 1840; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812 1852; Part 3: 1850 1999John Saward: ; Introduction; Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, Cong. Orat., 1801 - 1890; Canon Frederick Oakeley, 1802 - 1889; Archbishop William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806 - 1889; Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, 1808 - 1892; Lady Georgiana Fullerton, 1812 - 1885; Edward Caswall, Cong. Orat., 1814 - 1878; Frederick William Faber, Cong. Orat., 1814 - 1863; Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore, 1823 - 1896; Thomas Edward Bridgett CSSR, 1829 - 1899; Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Cardinal Vaughan, 1832 - 1903; (Arthur) Bertrand Wilberforce OP, 1839 - 1904; Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889; Joseph Rickaby SJ, 1845 - 1932; Francis Neil Aidan Cardinal Gasquet OSB, 1846 - 1929; Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, 1847 - 1922; Canon William Francis Barry, 1849 - 1930; Herbert Henry Charles Thurston SJ, 1856 - 1939; (Edward Joseph Aloysius) Cuthbert Butler OSB, 1858 - 1934; Francis Joseph Thompson, 1859 - 1907; Bede Camm OSB, 1864 - 1942; (Henry Palmer) John Chapman OSB, 1865 - 1933; (Margaret) Laurentia McLachlan OSB, 1866 - 1953; Lionel Pigot Johnson, 1867 - 1902; (Joseph) Vincent McNabb OP, 1868 - 1943; Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc, 1870 - 1953; Robert Hugh Benson, 1871 - 1914; Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJ, 1874 - 1948; Maurice Baring, 1874 - 1945; Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936; (Martin) Anscar Vonier OSB, 1875 - 1938; William Edwin Orchard, 1877 - 1955; Cyril Charles Martindale SJ, 1879 - 1963; Alfred Noyes, 1880 - 1958; (Cyril) Bede Jarrett OP, 1881 - 1934; Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, 1882 - 1940; Siegfried Sassoon, 1886 - 1967; Vernon Cecil Johnson, 1886 - 1969; Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, 1888 - 1974; Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 1888 - 1957; Martin Cyril D Arcy SJ, 1888 - 1976; Henry Christopher Dawson, 1889 - 1970; Mary Josephine Maisie Ward, 1889 - 1975; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892 - 1973; John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, 1893 - 1979; David Jones, 1895 - 1974; (Michael Clive) David Knowles OSB, 1896 - 1974; Frank Joseph Sheed, 1897 - 1981; Cecily Hallack, 1898 - 1938; Frances Caryll Houselander, 1901 - 1954; William Abel Pantin, 1902 - 1973; Archbishop David James Mathew, 1902 - 1975; Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, 1903 - 1966; Henry Graham Greene, 1904 - 1991; John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, 1905 - 1975; (Claud) Hubert van Zeller OSB, 1905 - 1984; (Anthony) Gervase Mathew OP, 1905 - 1976; (Lawrence Samuel) Gerald Vann OP, 1906 - 1963; Bernard Basset SJ, 1909 - 1988; Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, 1916 - 1992; John Bradburne, 1921 - 1979; (George Haliburton) Basil Cardinal Hume OSB, 1923 - 1999