“Calculated to Undermine Things Established”: Newman’s Fourteenth Oxford University Sermon

This study depicts Newman’s fourteenth Oxford University Sermon as a creative response to two controversial events in his life: the first involved the Tamworth Reading Room—Newman’s satirical critique of Robert Peel’s view of education and religion; the second concerned his advocacy of the compatibility of Anglican and Roman Catholic doctrines which he articulated in his divisive Tract 90.