I didn't know the guy...He may have been the things you claim he was but,,,was he saved??? Is there a record of a testimony anywhere where he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior???
An Oxford intellectual doesn't make one a Christian...And being a religious intellectual doesn't get you any more in tune with God than if you are an uneducated drunk...
Lots of intellectuals know about God...But a lot of them don't KNOW God...
There's no quick and automatic way to know that.
Is there a record of a testimony anywhere where he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior?
Sola fide is a false tradition of men.
His Book “The Catholic Church” tells you his relationship to The Christ. Faith and Reason go to together. Faith without reason is what the pagans practiced as do modern day Hindus.
And reason without faith confines our limitation to our senses where we remain bound to the temporal in which Divine miracles are relegated to superstition because they don’t comport with scientific reason.
Newman’s reasons that support faith is simply brilliant.