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  • Volcano eruptionNewman’s Detractors … at NINS?
    By Christopher Cimorelli
    June 8, 2022
    It was all the more remarkable when I discovered a collection of “Newman detractors” on the premises, a collection indicating the conflict between Newman, the champion of Roman Catholicism in England, and mainly evangelical Free Church academics around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. […]
  • Tree of Life Cover PhotoNewman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of Certitude
    By Frederick D. Aquino
    April 27, 2022
    In the scholarly literature, John Locke (1632–1704) features as a formative influence on Newman’s philosophical thought. What usually gets highlighted, for example in the Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, are Newman’s criticism of Locke’s notion of degreed assent and his call for a broader and more nuanced account of the rationality of religious belief. However, some have argued that the Grammar largely focuses on the psychological conditions of religious belief. […]
  • Orthodoxy 2 horsesUnlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry Newman
    By Joan Liguori Perillo
    April 5, 2022
    Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests. […]
  • nins-digital-collections-allNINS’s Expanding Collections
    By Christopher Cimorelli
    February 23, 2022
    The National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) is pleased to announce the ongoing expansion of our digital collections through formal agreements with several institutions in England. […]
  • The Idea Idearum in Newman and Bouyer
    By Keith Lemna
    December 16, 2021
    An important theological theme in the Christian tradition is that of the divine ideas or logoi in the mind or Word of God by which God knows and loves in himself eternally all the ways that creatures can or do participate in a living likeness of him. […]

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