The "Via Media" (middle way) represents a dialogue between the Evangelical Anglican, Anglo-Catholic, and Roman Catholic. Based on the edition of 1889 (with obvious errors and misprints slightly corrected), this is the first fully annotated volume of Newman's Anglican works. The text is supplemented with an introduction and appendices listing all the variant readings between the three editions of 1836, 1837, and the final edition. In addition, Weidner sets the original pagination of 1889 in the margin alongside the present text for quick reference to the uniform edition of the collected works.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

I observe then that controversial writings are for the most part made up of three main elements, only one of which is, strictly speaking, of an argumentative character, meaning by argument truths and facts, together with deductions from them. This last is the logical element; but there are other two instruments in controversy seldom dispensed with by those who engage in it, and more or less rhetorical, and which, though they may have a considerable place in these Lectures, have no claim to a place in this Preface. Aeterna Press