ABSTRACT
George Henry Tyrrell, the former Jesuit who was excommunicated for his public criticism of Pope Pius X's encyclical Pascendi dominici gregis (1907), claims to have received his theological method from John Henry Newman. Fascinated by the paradoxical and mysterious complexities of Butler's apologetic, Tyrrell began experimenting with the fringes and trappings of Butler's High Churchism. The Romish sacerdotal, sacramental, and liturgical elements of orthodox Anglicanism fascinated him. On 18 May 1879, George Tyrrell was received into the Roman Catholic Church and would the same day have been received into the Jesuits as well, except that canon law required converts to wait at least one year. Tyrrell's entire apologetic was coined in its basic and enduring thrust in the image of J. H. Newman. Tyrrell's aim was to speak first to the heart and therefore to present Catholicism first in its beauty and attractiveness. Tyrrell's final word was given in the posthumously published Christianity at the Cross-Roads.
