It is a common observation that John Henry Newman was quintessentially English, however Philips demonstrates that in the encounter between Catholicism and Englishness in Newman's theology, there are both coalescences and corrections to English sensibilities and intellectual fashions. German readers of Newman have long been aware of this. This work by Philips offers a comprehensive treatment of the issue. It is written with a high level of English literary elegance that does justice to the genre of Newman studies. It is likely to become a seminal reference work in the field.

Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Dean Church, Newman's lifelong friend, called attention to the convert's inalienable Englishness, his "chief interests" being "for things English -- English literature, English social life, English politics, English religion." In John Henry Newman and the English Sensibility, Jacob Phillips revisits this characteristic aspect of Newman with fresh, judicious, learned insight.

Edward Short, author of Newman and his Contemporaries, USA

[T]his volume remains a valuable work of scholarship in challenging too easy assumptions that only one interpretation must be right.

David Brown, University of St Andrews, UK, The Pastoral Review