IN PERSON AND ZOOM EVENT
Newman as “Church Father” and “Morning Star” in Ida Friederike Görres
5 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:00am (ET)
Dr. Elizabeth Huddleston and Dr. Jennifer Bryson will discuss the role of John Henry Newman in the work of Ida Friederike Görres, the impact of the Catholic revival in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s on Görres, and Görres’s book John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed.
Newman as “Church Father” and “Morning Star” in Ida Friederike Görres: A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bryson
Dr. Elizabeth Huddleston and Dr. Jennifer Bryson will discuss the role of John Henry Newman in the work of Ida Friederike Görres, the impact of the Catholic revival in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s on Görres, and Görres’s book John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed. While Görres composed this book around 1946–1948, it was not published in Germany until 2011, forty years after her death. In A Life Sacrificed, Görres refers to Newman as a "Church Father of the Twentieth Century: explicitly the twentieth, that is, a lighthouse in the rotation of the stars, strangely having two faces—one is the familiar one that is already fading; the other is only beginning to reveal itself and to shine like a rising star in our great darkness.” Similarly, she writes of Newman as a "Morning star: not the evening star of a cherished but sinking culture, humanism, et cetera; rather, the morning star of a free, lonely, believing spirituality." This conversation will focus on these two images, as well as interest in Newman in Postwar Germany.
Date: 5 June 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:00am (ET)
To learn about how this book got published in 2011, read “Discovering an Unpublished Manuscript on Newman in Munich: An Interview with Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz”
Jennifer Bryson
Fellow, Catholic Women’s Forum
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) in Washington, DC.
Jennifer Bryson, PhD, is the translator of John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed by Ida Friederike Görres (Ignatius, 2024) and other works by Ida Görres. At present, she is translating other works by Görres and researching Görres, Augustin Rösler (1851–1922), and Oda Schneider (1892–1987). She is a fellow in the Catholic Women’s Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) in Washington, DC. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Elizabeth A. Huddleston
Head of Research and Publications
Associate Editor, NSJ
National Institute for Newman Studies
Elizabeth Huddleston is the Head of Research and Publications at the National Institute for Newman Studies and the Associate Editor for the Newman Studies Journal. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in Theological Studies from the University of Dayton, and a doctorate in Theology also from the University of Dayton. Her dissertation is entitled, Divine Revelation as Rectrix Stella: The Evolution of Wilfrid Ward’s Doctrine of Divine Revelation, which was completed in 2019 under the direction of Dr. William L. Portier. Dr. Huddleston’s research interests include the reception of Newman’s doctrine of revelation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology, the relationship between music and theology, ecumenical and inter-faith conversations, and the intersection of dogmatic theology with Christian mysticism.