An Evangelical Adrift The Making of John Henry Newman's Theology - Hardcoverby Geertjan Zuijdwegt (Author) An Evangelical Adrift is a theological biography of John Henry Newman (1801 1890) that reconstructs the most formative period in his development: the years between his teenage conversion to evangelicalism in 1816 and the beginning of the Tractarian Movement in 1833. By the early 1830s, Newman had explicitly rejected much of the theology he espoused in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and developed a highly original,