Did I say that? I believe I said I had learned much from Lewis over the years. What I am dismissing is not Lewis but his belief in purgatory based on the scriptures I cited. He apparently believed in it because it seemed reasonable and to support that belief, he references a poem. That may be the perfect scholarly thing to do, but it's not theologically sound. Because of that unsoundness, I'm not going to give him a pass just because he's very scholarly and very devout.
As far as J.H. Newman is concerned, I haven't heard much of him. An Anglican minister with a Calvinist persuasion sounds like rather an odd duck. His Calvinism is perhaps more of a 'lean' than a 'persuasion' otherwise, he wouldn't have slidden off into catholicism.
The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, JHCN. (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890.
Just about every university at one time had a “Newman Center” for its Catholic students. Many have one today and it’s the connection between what is Godly on campus and what is secular.