What Will Dr. Newman Do? John Henry Newman and Papal Infallibility, 1865-1875 by John R. Page

The relationship between the Catholic Church and the state, and between the Church and the state in general, is a very topical issue, and theoreticians at the present time provide various models that render assistance to the comprehension of that relationship. The complexity and extensiveness of the problem necessitates that it should be dealt with in two parts (articles). Basically, our objective was to represent the deliberations of John Henry Newman (1801‒1890) and Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815‒1905), which we consider to be exceptionally valuable and relevant even today. Through such an analysis, we intended to examine how the deliberations of these two great thinkers of the nineteenth century may contribute to a better cooperation between the Catholic Church and the state in present‐day Europe. In this, the first article, in which we deal with Newman’s and Strossmayer’s perceptions of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state, at the very outset we feature the context in which Newman and Strossmayer each take a closer look at that relationship. This context is characterized by liberalism, but with numerous negative connotations that suffocate the originally positive meaning of liberalism. A negative context of liberalism is an aggravating circumstance in the comprehension of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state, and on the other hand, from the position of a modern liberal state, Newman’s and Strossmayer’s comprehension of history, in whose center is the principle of God’s Providence, is also qualified in this way, which simultaneously renders the Catholic Church consistent and authentic, unlike the modern liberal state, which frequently assumes utopian and ideological characteristics. For this very reason, that difference regularly seems insurmountable. Finally, we observe that the issues are additionally complicated by the erroneous notion of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility, which is not understood in the spirit of harmony between the conscience and an Authority.

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Hierarchical Development In Ecclesiologies of Johann Adam Mohler And John Henry Newman

10.2986/tren.033-0623 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Damian KABOT

Keyword(s):

John Henry Newman

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Un témoin de la personne : John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Revue des sciences religieuses ◽

10.3406/rscir.1989.3126 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 227-241

Author(s):

Pierre Gauthier

Keyword(s):

John Henry Newman

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John Henry Newman

10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael D. Hurley

Keyword(s):

John Henry Newman ◽

Seminal Work ◽

Non Fiction ◽

Prose Style ◽

Definition Of

Newman has been much vaunted as a ‘master’ of non-fiction prose style, and justly so. His felicity of phrasing is astonishing: so precise, so elegant, so vivid. This chapter admires Newman’s stylistic achievements too, but with a view to explaining why Newman himself baulked at such praise, by insisting instead on the importance of veracity over verbalism. While a number of different writings by Newman are surveyed in the course of the chapter, the argument comes to focus in particular on his seminal work of faith, Grammar of Assent, a book that took him some twenty years to write, which almost killed him, and which best exemplifies his suggestive but enigmatic definition of ‘style’ as ‘a thinking out into language’.

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Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854

10.1093/oso/9780198802563.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

C. Michael Shea

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Roman Catholic Church ◽

John Henry Newman ◽

Christian Doctrine ◽

European Continent ◽

The Past ◽

Immaculate Conception ◽

Over Time

For the past several decades, scholars have stressed that the genius of John Henry Newman remained underappreciated among his Roman Catholic contemporaries, and in order to find the true impact of his work, one must look to the century after his death. This book takes direct aim at that assumption. Examining a host of overlooked evidence from England and the European continent, Newman’s Early Legacy tracks letters, recorded conversations, and obscure and unpublished theological exchanges to show how Newman’s 1845 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine influenced a cadre of Catholic teachers, writers, and Church authorities in nineteenth-century Rome. The book explores how these individuals then employed Newman’s theory of development to argue for the definability of the new dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary during the years preceding the doctrine’s promulgation in 1854. Through numerous twists and turns, the narrative traces how the theory of development became a factor in determining the very language that the Roman Catholic Church would use in referring to doctrinal change over time. In this way, Newman’s Early Legacy uncovers a key dimension of Newman’s significance in modern religious history.

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