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a series of striking individual portraits

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Loss and Gain Curtayne a series of striking individualBy Saint John Henry Newman Loss and Gain: This semi autobiographical story of a convert, set during the Tractarian controversy in the Church of England in the 1820s, follows the young Oxford student, Charles Reding, as he seeks solid ground for his faith. In the heady intellectual climate of Oxford, Charles takes a part in its involved, at times impassioned, religious and ecclesiastical debates, wrestling with the sectarian, the evangelical, and the