“Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom”

John Henry Newman

ARTICLES

Newman’s Notion of the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in The Parochial And Plain Sermons

John R. Connolly

This essay analyzes Newman’s understanding of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in his Parochial and Plain Sermons (1825-1843):  the nature of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; the role of the Holy Spirit in regeneration; the appropriation of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Christian through baptism; and the role of the Holy Spirit outside the Church.  The final section indicates how some aspects of Newman’s theology of the Holy Spirit are still relevant for the discussion about the Holy Spirit in contemporary Catholic theology.

John R. Connolly is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of John Henry Newman: A View of Catholic Faith for the New Millennium  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). 

John Henry Newman on Ecclesial Spiritual Life

Kevin Mongrain

This essay is a theological interpretation of John Henry Newman’s 1877 Preface to the third edition of the Via Media of the Anglican Church.  Looking at the 1877 Preface through the lens of his earlier Anglican sermons, particularly his Parochial and Plain Sermons, this essay explores Newman’s general pneumatology and its influence on his ecclesiology and considers the spirituality underlying Newman’s Christocentric and Trinitarian vision of the Church as a mutually informing and correcting symbiosis of the spiritual, theological, and hierarchical dimensions of Christian faith

Kevin Mongrain, an assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, delivered this essay, which was prepared during his fellowship at the National Institute of Newman Studies, at the annual conference of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association in Pittsburgh in August 2007.

The Phenomenological Context and Transcendentalism of John Henry Newman and Edmund Husserl

Ono Ekeh      

John Henry Newman has rightly been hailed as a giant in the Catholic intellectual tradition. His contributions to theology, literature and education have been studied at length; however, his contribution to philosophy has not received appropriate attention.  This essay 1) explores Newman’s unique philosophical insights in terms of the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl; 2) analyzes the transcendental approach of certain British scientists—notably Ronald Knox and Charles Darwin; and 3) discusses how Newman might be considered a phenomenologist

Ono Ekeh, a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, serves as an adjunct faculty member at Mount St. Mary’s University (Emmitsburg, MD) and at The Catholic University of America.

SERMON STUDIES

“How Can These Things Be?” Newman’s Anglican Sermon on “The Christian Mysteries”

Thomas Poynor

This study considers three aspects of “The Christian Mysteries,” one of Newman’s early Anglican sermons: 1) the use of Scripture in the exposition of the Mysteries of Faith, 2) the definition of Mystery, and 3) the moral effect of Mystery.

Thomas Poynor is a doctoral student in Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Newman’s Sermon on “The Mystery of the Holy Trinity”:  A Response to Richard Whately?

Donald Graham

After discussing the contents of this sermon—which is structured around the Athanasian Creed and emphasizes the inner life of the Trinity—this study raises the question of whether Newman wrote this sermon as a response to the Trinitarian heterodoxy of his one-time mentor, Richard Whately, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin.

Donald Graham is an adjunct professor of systematic theology at St. Augustine’s Institute of Theology, St. Augustine’s Seminary of the Archdiocese of Toronto, and a teacher of religion and philosophy at St. Peter’s Secondary School in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

A “Multitude Of Subtle Influences”: Faith and Reason in Newman’s Thirteenth Oxford University Sermon

David Delio

This sermon study begins with reflections about Newman’s frame of mind at the time of his thirteenth University Sermon—“Implicit and Explicit Reason” (1840).  For Newman, the time was the beginning of an intellectual and spiritual conversion, while the sermon itself described the powerful interplay of reason and faith in Christian believers and presented the rudiments of an epistemology that would later influence his An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870).

David Delio is a doctoral student in systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.                 

BOOK REVIEWS

Edward J. Enright, OSA, reviewing: Judith Camp, William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk.

 Frances C. Brown reviewing: Owen F. Cummings, Prophets, Guardians, and Saints: Shapers of Modern Catholic History.

 Joel Warden, CO, reviewing:  Nancy Marie de Flon, Edward Caswall: Newman’s Brother and Friend.

John T. Ford, CSC, reviewing:  C. Colt Anderson, The Great Catholic Reformers: From Gregory the Great to Dorthy Day

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NEWMAN CHRONOLOGY