Apologia pro Vita Sua

From the sense of frustration engendered by these experiences, Newman was delivered in 1864 by an unwarranted attack from Anglican clergyman and author Charles Kingsley upon his moral teaching. Kingsley in effect challenged him to justify the honesty of his life…

…by Kingsley, Newman wrote his Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), the history of his religious development.

…is memorably described in his Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), one of the many great autobiographies of this introspective century.