
Category: Spirituality
Catholic Devotion to the Mother of God: What Newma...
By Robert M. Andrews | Dec 1, 2021 | History, Spirituality, 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
A Pilgrimage with Newman: Reading Patricia O’...
By Gerriet Suiter | Jul 1, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
John Henry Newman’s Pandemic Ministry: A Bal...
By Peter Conley | May 5, 2021 | History, Newman Today, Spirituality | 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 MoreCatholic Devotion to the Mother of God: What Newman’s Letter to Pusey (1866) tells us about Mariology and Marian Piety
by Robert M. Andrews | Dec 1, 2021 | History, Spirituality, Theology | 0
Pusey’s appraisal of Mariology—a polemic containing a mixture of historical, theological and anecdotal evidence—was, on the whole, untrue and mostly a caricature; yet as Newman would be forced to admit in his formal published reply to Pusey in 1866, the Letter to Pusey, there was partial veracity to his claim that at times Mariology, in some of its devotional outpourings, has obscured devotion to God, especially God’s loving mediation brought to humanity through the Incarnation.
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 MoreA Pilgrimage with Newman: Reading Patricia O’Leary’s The Gentleman Saint
by Gerriet Suiter | Jul 1, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Patricia O’Leary’s The Gentleman Saint (Gracewing, 2020) is a short and delightful introduction to John Henry Newman.
Read MoreJohn Henry Newman’s Pandemic Ministry: A Balm for the Bereaved
by Peter Conley | May 5, 2021 | History, Newman Today, Spirituality | 0
Newman ministered to the sick and dying cholera victims and their families in Oxford, Birmingham, and Bilston.
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 MoreUnlearning the Love of This World: Newman’s Sermons as Spiritual Reading during Lent
by Ryan Marr | Feb 25, 2020 | Newman Today, Spirituality, Theology | 0
If you are anything like me, you have on at least one occasion squandered the holy season of Lent. The Church has established such times on the liturgical calendar so that we might enter more deeply into the mysteries of Christ’s life.
Read MoreThe Cry of Repentance Versus the Bitter Cry of Regret
by Ryan Marr | Mar 20, 2019 | Spirituality, Theology | 0
It’s easy to read this account from Scripture and to cast aspersions on Esau. “How could he have been so foolish?” we wonder. “I’d never act that rashly,” we tell ourselves. Yet how often in our own lives do we make a similar, yet graver mistake by squandering the gifts of God—in our case, the graces that we receive through the sacraments—in exchange for some lesser good?
Read MoreUnlearning Ourselves in Lent: Newman on Fasting
by Ryan Marr | Mar 13, 2019 | Spirituality, Theology | 0
For Newman, the disciplines of Lent—in this case, fasting—are a way for the Christian to participate mystically in the life of Christ. By intensifying our self-denial for these forty days of Lent, we come to know, in part, what Christ experienced in full measure:
Read MoreLent, the Season of Repentance
by Ryan Marr | Mar 6, 2019 | Spirituality, Theology | 0
In reading Newman’s letters and diaries, it’s clear that he knew of divine mercy not as an abstract theological idea, but at a deeply personal level as a core part of his spiritual journey. Because he himself had experienced the grace of God in many profound ways, Newman was eager to encourage others to cast themselves before the mercy seat.
Read MoreFrancis de Sales the Oratorian
by Ryan Marr | Feb 5, 2019 | History, Spirituality, Theology | 0
There is something stirring about seeing two greats from different generations together in the same place. In the world of sports, for instance, some memorable photo-ops have come about this way—say, with a young Lebron James standing next to Bill Russell or with Derek Jeter warming up on the same baseball diamond as Cal Ripken Jr.
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