NEWMAN STUDIES JOURNAL

Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2007

EDITORIAL PREFACE

"May Newman's example continue to inspire new generations of students to draw abundantly from the richness of the Christian tradition in order to respond to the deepest yearnings of the human spirit."

Pope Benedict XVI

ARTICLES

John Henry Newman--Doctor of Conscience: Doctor of the Church?

Drew Morgan, C.O.

Should Newman be designated a “Doctor of the Church”?  This essay responds first by considering the history and meaning of the title “Doctor of the Church,” and then by examining the recent Norms and Criteria proposed by the Vatican Congregation for designating Doctrine of the Church

Fr. Drew Morgan, C. O., a priest of The Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Pittsburgh, PA, and the Director of the National Institute for Newman Studies, teaches at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA.

 

Tales From Two Cities: 

The Evolving Identity of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University

Todd Ream
 

This essay describes not only the evolving identity of Newman’s The Idea of a University, but also the way in which this process points to a larger tension between what Augustine referred to as the City of God and the city of this world. While no other work is perhaps more quoted than Newman’s Idea, in relation to theoretical conceptions of university life, the origins of this work are often little understood. As a result, Newman’s Idea frequently goes from being a work whose identity is derived from the City of God to being a book whose identity is derived from various manifestations of the city of this world. 

Todd C. Ream, the Director of The Aldersgate Center at Indiana Wesleyan University, originally delivered this article as a paper on July 23, 2005, at the annual conference of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association at Villanova, Pennsylvania.  He dedicates this article to his daughter, Ashley Caitlin, who was born during the season of its completion: May there be colleges and universities which not only serve her generation but which also embody the identity of Newman’s Idea.

Newman's Adaptation of Bacci's The Life of St. Philip Neri

Michael Eades

This essay explores a relatively unknown and previously unstudied Newman work, The Life of St. Philip: Arranged for the Days of the Year, that he prepared for the use of his nascent English Oratorian community.

Br. Michael Eades, a member of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Toronto, Canada, is currently studying theology at the University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome, while in residence at the Chiesa Nuova, the Oratorian Church of St. Philip Neri.

Newman on the Relationship between Natural and Revealed Religion: His University Sermons and Grammar of Assent

Randall Rosenberg

This essay discusses Newman’s view of the relationship between Natural and Revealed Religion in his second University Sermon (1830) and in his Grammar of Assent (1870).  To what extent did Newman’s view change during the four decades between this early Anglican sermon and his major treatment of the nature of faith as a Roman Catholic?

Randall S. Rosenberg, a Ph.D. Candidate in Systematic Theology at Boston College, is writing a dissertation that develops a conversation between Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Theology of Christ’s Consciousness on the Cross.

Newman: Certain Knowledge and "The Problem of the Criterion"

Marty Miller Maddox

 

 This essay examines Newman’s approach to the age-old skeptical “problem of the criterion” in his An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. By examining Newman’s accent on the illative sense as right judgment in rationation, especially in the justification of first principles of knowledge, this essay depicts Newman as offering a proceduralist approach to answering “the problem of the criterion.”

Marty Miller Maddox, an Adjunct Instructor in Theology at Bethany Theological Seminary (Richmond, Indiana) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California), where he is writing his dissertation on “The Problem of Certainty in Late Modern Theology.”  The present article was prepared while he was a resident scholar at the National Institute for Newman Studies in Pittsburgh.

PASTORAL VIGNETTE

Newman's Sense of the Real

Daniel Callam, C.S.B.  

This vignette notes that Newman’s famous distinction between the “notional” and the “real” was not simply a philosophical categorization, but part of his worldview that is evident in his writings—ranging from his correspondence and theological comments to his novels and sermons.

Daniel Callam, C.S.B., is an associate professor of theology and University chaplain at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.

VIDEO REVIEWS 

Catharine M. Ryan reviewing:  Eternal World Television Network:  Newman at 2000

BOOK REVIEWS

 Patrick Granfield reviewing: Richard F. Costigan, The Consensus of the Church and Papal Infallibility: A Study in the Background of Vatican I

John R. Griffin reviewing:  Sheridan Gilley, ed., Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland

John Groppe reviewing: Susan M. Griffin, Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Gerald McCarthy reviewing: William Park, ed., Newman on the Bible, Commentaries on Scripture

Peter Stravinskas reviewing: Erik Sidenvall, After Anti-Catholicism: John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845-c. 1890

John T. Ford reviewing: Richard Tames, A Traveller's History of Oxford

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