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Newman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of Certitu...
By Elizabeth Huddleston | Apr 27, 2022 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
Unlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John ...
By Joan Liguori Perillo | Apr 5, 2022 | History, Theology | 0
The Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to Pusey
By Rubén Peretó Rivas | Nov 24, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Theology | 0
Why Lingard Didn’t Like Newman
By Shaun Blanchard | Sep 24, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Theology | 0
A Collaborative Digitization Project between the N...
By Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
Newman’s Detractors … at NINS?
by Christopher Cimorelli | Jun 8, 2022 | History, New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
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.
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 MoreUnlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry Newman
by Joan Liguori Perillo | Apr 5, 2022 | History, Theology | 0
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.
Read MoreThe Spanish Edition of Newman’s Letter to Pusey
by Rubén Peretó Rivas | Nov 24, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy, Theology | 0
Newman’s influence is not relegated to the English-speaking world only; rather, it can be seen in the Spanish-speaking world as well.
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 MoreA Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, England
by Naomi Johnson | Sep 9, 2021 | New and Noteworthy, Newman Today | 0
As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time.
Read MoreBlessed Ignatius Spencer’s Correspondence with Saint John Henry Newman
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Mar 10, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
Just last month, on February 20th, Pope Francis declared that the nineteenth-century Passionist priest, Fr. Ignatius Spencer, would be known as the Venerable Ignatius Spencer.
Read MoreLetter from a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins to Ignatius Ryder
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 27, 2021 | New and Noteworthy | 0
Just seven months before his death, the now famous poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, penned the following letter to Henry “Ignatius” Ryder.
Read MoreNewman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati
by Elizabeth Huddleston | Jan 19, 2021 | History, New and Noteworthy | 0
In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper.
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