Loss and Gain (Summarized Edition)

Loss and Gain (1848) follows Charles Reding, an Oxford undergraduate, through a scrupulous testing of Evangelical zeal, liberal latitudinarianism, and rational skepticism before his conversion to Roman Catholicism. A campus novel of ideas, it uses Socratic dialogue, satiric portraits of dons, and catechetical exposition to stage the controversies stirred by the Oxford Movement after Tract 90, bala...