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Books G K Chesterton: A Biograp, John Henry Newman: A Biography, Newman on Vatican II, Mere Catholicism, The Achievement of John H Similar John Henry Newman, Dale Ahlquist, Matthew Levering, Anthony M Esolen, Robert Barron | ||
Ian Ker (born 1942) is an English Roman Catholic priest, scholar and author. He is generally regarded as the world's authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he has published more than twenty books.
Father Ian Ker teaches theology at Oxford University, where he is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology . He has taught both English literature and theology at universities in the UK and USA. Father Ker is generally regarded as the leading authority on Blessed John Henry Newman, on whom he has published the universally acknowledged definitive biography. He is also the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, Mere Catholicism, and G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. On this last book, the late Christopher Hitchens reviewed that "Professor Ker's spirited and double-barreled attempt at a rehabilitation" of Chesterton "is enjoyable in its own right."