
Category: Philosophy
Newman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of Certitu...
By Elizabeth Huddleston | Apr 27, 2022 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
Oikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry ...
By Patrick Auer Jones | Sep 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
Reading Newman Philosophically: An Integrative Exe...
By Frederick D. Aquino | Apr 8, 2021 | History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
Newman, Probability, and Truth
By Stephen Fields | Aug 17, 2020 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
Newman Reading group at Franciscan University of S...
By Daniel Waldow | May 28, 2020 | Education, Newman Today, Philosophy | 0
Science’s Equivocal Crisis
by Samuel Bellafiore | Sep 22, 2022 | Newman Today, Philosophy | 0
This essay seeks to clarify the nature of science. It examines popular approaches to science, these approaches’ potential effects, and the perspective that theology can provide to our potential misunderstandings of science.
Read MoreNewman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of Certitude
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Apr 27, 2022 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
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.
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 MoreReading Newman Philosophically: An Integrative Exercise
by Frederick D. Aquino | Apr 8, 2021 | History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
This article argues that Newman’s notion of a philosophical habit of mind can provide a helpful conceptual framework for navigating conversations about reading, appropriating, and extending his philosophical thought.
Read MoreNewman, Probability, and Truth
by Stephen Fields | Aug 17, 2020 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
The Grammar of Assent, published in 1870, represents Newman’s last major work. As a religious epistemology, it provides systematically thought-through answers to questions that had preoccupied him since his early twenties
Read MoreNewman Reading group at Franciscan University of Steubenville: An Interview with Dr. Theodore Harwood
by Daniel Waldow | May 28, 2020 | Education, Newman Today, Philosophy | 0
In celebration of St. John Henry Newman’s canonization in October of 2019, Franciscan University of Steubenville had various events in honor of Newman during the 2019–2020 academic year. One of those events was a faculty group, led by classics professor Dr. Theodore Harwood
Read MoreEducation as Total Reality: Luigi Giussani and Newman on Education
by Matthew Muller | Jun 10, 2019 | Education, Newman Today, Philosophy | 0
The place where the educational process unfolds must be a place where all of reality is presented (Giussani, The Risk of Education, 133).
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