
Category: Ecclesiology
Ecclesiology in Newman’s Sermons, 1825–1835
By Pablo Blanco | Oct 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, Theology | 0
Oikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry ...
By Patrick Auer Jones | Sep 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
Why Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
By Shaun Blanchard | Sep 24, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
Reading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of...
By Laura Eloe | Aug 18, 2021 | Ecclesiology, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Pusey’s 1843 Sermon on the Eucharist: A Reje...
By Erin Meikle | Aug 11, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Spirituality, Theology | 0
The Idea Idearum in Newman and Bouyer
by Keith Lemna | Dec 16, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Spirituality, Theology | 0
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.
Read MoreEcclesiology in Newman’s Sermons, 1825–1835
by Pablo Blanco | Oct 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, Theology | 0
The cumulative effect of the theological debates at Oxford, together with his pastoral experience and personal reflections, gradually led Newman to a more high church ecclesiological approach, especially on visibility, invisibility, and apostolicity of the church.
Read MoreOikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry Hart Milman and the Historicism of Ernst Troeltsch
by Patrick Auer Jones | Sep 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
The dialogue I seek to construct between Troeltsch and Newman hinges particularly on Newman’s reception of the patristic concept of oikonomia.
Read MoreWhy Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
by Shaun Blanchard | Sep 24, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
Lingard remarked upon Newman’s career several times in his correspondence, usually with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity.
Read MoreReading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of The Apocalypse of Wisdom
by Laura Eloe | Aug 18, 2021 | Ecclesiology, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
The primary purpose of Lemna’s masterful book The Apocalypse of Wisdom: Louis Bouyer’s Theological Recovery of the Cosmos is to shed light on the “twists and turns of the path Bouyer charts in Cosmos” (xiii).
Read MorePusey’s 1843 Sermon on the Eucharist: A Rejected Eucharistic Theology
by Erin Meikle | Aug 11, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Spirituality, Theology | 0
This article aims to understand why a defense of a corporeal, real presence of Christ in the sacrament was problematic in nineteenth-century England.
Read MoreFr. John Lingard (1771-1851): Between Enlightened Catholicism and the Newmanian Second Spring
by Shaun Blanchard | Jan 8, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
This essay will introduce readers to Lingard, one of the major intellectual lights of the English Catholic community when Newman joined it in 1845 at Littlemore.
Read More“Knowing God, Being Made holy,” A Lecture by Jennifer Newsome Martin
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Dec 15, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Spirituality, Theology | 0
This lecture addresses the theme in St. John Henry Newman of the gradual—some would even say ordinary—pursuit of holiness throughout the course of the course of our human lives.
Read MoreRevisiting the Threefold Office of Christ in the Church
by Richard Gaillardetz | Oct 22, 2020 | Ecclesiology | 0
One of the most significant contributions of the Second Vatican Council lay in its appropriation of the tria munera—that is the threefold office of Christ as priest, prophet, and king—as an architectonic structure for reflection on the church.
Read MoreNewman’s Model for Defending the Church: The 1877 Preface to the Via Media and Today’s Abuse Crisis
by Fr. Nicholas Rouch, STD | Jun 9, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Newman Today | 0
Often when American Catholics speak about defending the church in our current environment, they wish to defend the church not so much from anti-Catholic bigotry from outside the boundaries of the church (although that’s still afoot)
Read More2020 Spring Newman Symposium Recap: Newman on Doctrinal Corruption. Presented by Dr. Matthew Levering
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Mar 20, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Theology | 0
In this lecture, Dr. Levering shows that Newman’s work on doctrinal development arose from his Anglican concerns about doctrinal corruption, which at that time he identified in the Church of Rome. Why, however, did doctrinal corruption worry Newman so much?
Read MoreTheologians for a Post-Westphalian Church
by William L. Portier | Dec 16, 2019 | Ecclesiology, Theology | 0
This was a public lecture given on the occasion of a Conference in celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Theology Ph.D. Program at the University of Dayton, held on 28 September 2019.
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