The Virgin Mary as New Eve

Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) and John Henry Newman (1801–1890), leaders in the Oxford Movement that revitalized the Anglican Church through the study of the Church Fathers and an emphasis on liturgy and sacraments, had been very close friends; but after Newman’s reception into the Roman Catholic Church on October 9, 1845, the two did not meet again for twenty years. When they finally chanced to meet, Newman discovered that Pusey had just completed a polemical treatise identifying obstacles to Canterbury’s reunion with Rome—notorious among them, Catholic beliefs about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Newman felt compelled to write a rebuttal, which Manfred Hauke describes as “one of the pearls of Marian theology of the nineteenth century.” Os Justi Press is proud to present it to readers today in a handsome, affordable, and convenient format, with a superb historical and doctrinal introduction by Fr. Thomas Crean, OP. From the Introduction:“The Letter to Pusey was called forth by an unexpe