bjections to revelation in certain works. When he was fifteen, though, the sermons of and conversations with the Reverend Walter Mayers of Pembroke College, Oxford, would bring the beginning of a divine faith to the boy. In writing about this period, Cardinal Newman says of the great change that came over him:
I fell under the influences of a definite Creed, and received into my intellect impressions of dogma, which, through God's mercy, have never been effaced or obscured.
That influence was Calvinism, though Newman was only attracted to the doctrines of Calvinism and was not wholly influenced by them.
John Henry graduated his course at Ealing and enrolled at Oxford, which at the time was still bound to the Church of England so that a prerequisite for admission was formal subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. The faculty presented the elements of theology in a systematic manner. Oxford was based on the medieval ideal and so was a
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