tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37741532011-04-21T11:23:01.988-07:00John Henry NewmanThis blog will be my sounding board to work on my John Henry Newman dissertation as well as reflect on Newman's works.Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1116893079661470882005-05-23T16:57:00.000-07:002005-05-23T17:04:39.663-07:00Newman on Interreligious IssuesIt may be objected, that, if the feeling of a good conscience be evidence to us of our justification, then are persons in a justified state who are external to the Church, provided they have this feeling. I reply briefly,--for to say much here would be out of place,--that everyone will be judged according to his light and his privileges; and any man who has really Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1116892411510014522005-05-23T16:53:00.000-07:002005-05-23T16:54:49.170-07:00But when he really gives himself up to God, when he gets himself honestly to say, "I sacrifice to Thee this cherished wish, this lust, this weakness, this scheme, this opinion: make me what Thou wouldest have me; I bargain for nothing; I make no terms; I seek for no previous information whither Thou are taking me; I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me.John Henry Newman,Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1110401665111971222005-03-09T12:50:00.000-08:002005-03-09T12:54:25.120-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 4 Sermon 20 The Ventures of Faith“They say unto Him, We are able.”—Matt. xx. 22.• “These words of the holy Apostles James and John were in reply to a very solemn question addressed to them by their Divine Master.”• “They coveted, with a noble ambition, though as yet unpractised in the highest wisdom, untaught in the holiest truth,-- they coveted to sit Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1110305473219388412005-03-08T10:07:00.000-08:002005-03-08T10:11:13.223-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 4 Sermon 19 The Mysteriousness of Our Present Being“I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.”—Ps. cxxxix. 14• It is worth noting that the inspired writer “finds in the mysteries without and within him, a source of admiration and praise.”• This subject is appropriate for the Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109968487229397952005-03-04T12:25:00.000-08:002005-03-04T12:34:47.233-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons Volume 4: Sermon 13 The Invisible World“While we look not at the thing which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal,”—2 Cor. iv. 18• There are two worlds the visible and the invisible• The invisible world really exists even though we don’t see it• There is a more Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109805884493610172005-03-02T15:19:00.000-08:002005-03-02T15:24:44.496-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 4 Sermon 2 Obedience Without Love as Instanced in the Character of Balaam“The word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.”—Numb. xxii. 38• The story of Balaam is very important and the major story is not simply the miracle of a donkey speaking• What does this story teach us?• Balaam was blessed with God’s special favor, not necessarily given to himOnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109619254202333562005-02-28T11:27:00.000-08:002005-02-28T11:34:14.233-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3 Sermon 23 Religious Worship A Remedy for Excitements“Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing Psalms.”—James v. 13• “St. James seems to imply in these words that there is that in religious worship which supplies all our spiritual need, which suits every mood of mind and every variety of circumstances, over and above heavenly and Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109528276777401892005-02-27T10:13:00.000-08:002005-02-27T10:17:56.780-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3 Sermon 19 Regenerating Baptism“By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body.”—1 Cor. xii. 13• “As there is One Holy Ghost, so there is one only visible Body of Christians which Almighty God ‘knows by name,’ and one Baptism which admits men to it.”• The Holy Ghost admits into the Church by means of baptism and it is the Holy Ghost that baptizes• “[I]n Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109273008988869872005-02-24T11:20:00.000-08:002005-02-24T11:23:28.993-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3 Sermon 18 The Gift of the Spirit“We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”—2 Cor. iii. 18• “Moses prayed for this one thing, that he might ‘see God’s glory”• He got to observe it such a measure that his face shone when he came down from the Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109098757139800212005-02-22T10:53:00.000-08:002005-02-22T10:59:17.143-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3 Sermon 15 Contrast Between Truth and Falsehood in the Church“The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.”—Matt. xiii. 47, 48• “In the Apostle’s age, the chief contest between Truth and Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1109022376449341302005-02-21T13:36:00.000-08:002005-02-21T13:46:16.453-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3 Sermon 12 The Humiliation of the Eternal Son“Who in the days if His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared, though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.”—Heb. v. 7,8.• “The chief mystery of our holy Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108749559413105722005-02-18T09:54:00.000-08:002005-02-18T09:59:19.420-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3, Sermon 8 Contracted Views in Religion“Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.”—Luke xv. 29• There is a “general correspondence” between the parable of the prodigal son and that of that in Matthew in which the Father ask two sons Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108704391022694742005-02-17T21:23:00.000-08:002005-02-17T21:26:31.026-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 3, Sermon 6 Faith and Obedience“If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”—Matt. xix.17.• “Let a plain man read the Gospels with a serious and humble mind, and as in God’s presence, and I suppose he would be in no perplexity at all about the meaning of these words.”• There are those who through pride refuse to accept the plain meaning of this verseOnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108589094871257992005-02-16T13:14:00.000-08:002005-02-16T13:27:37.583-08:00 Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 2 Sermon 19, The Indwelling Spirit  (The Feast of Pentecost) “God the Son has graciously vouchsafed to reveal the Father to His creatures from without; God the Holy Ghost, by inward communications.” The Son of God is called the Word because he declares the glory of the Father throughout creation and impresses the evidence of God everywhere He is oneOnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108418492933044102005-02-14T13:52:00.000-08:002005-02-14T14:13:33.026-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Sermon 18 Mysteries in Religion (The Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord)“It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us.”—Rom viii. 34. The Ascension of our Lord is an event to be commemorated with joy and thanksgiving St Paul tell us that Christ ascended to make intercession forOnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108268405582151432005-02-12T20:08:00.000-08:002005-02-13T19:12:11.100-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Volume 2 Sermon 3 The Incarnation  (The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord)“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”—John i.14 With these words the beloved disciple announces the incarnation Even though he had touched, looked up and heard the very Word of Life incarnate, yet there is a reverence we sense in his words Such was also the temper of the HolyOnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108173620756726572005-02-11T17:52:00.000-08:002005-02-11T18:02:40.870-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Sermon 2 Faith Without Sight (The Feast of St Thomas the Apostle)“Thomas because thou hast seen me thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”  John XX.29 St Thomas is the apostle that doubted the reports of Jesus’ resurrection We should not assume that St Thomas differed from the rest of the apostles in his want of faith; Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1108071174613206452005-02-10T13:23:00.000-08:002005-02-10T13:32:54.613-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons, Vol. 1: Sermon 18: Obedience the Remedy for PerplexitySummary “Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt thee to inherit the land.”—Ps xxxvii.34 “The Psalm from which I have taken my text, is written with a view of encouraging good men who are in perplexity,—and especially perplexity concerning God’s designs, providence, and will. ‘Fret not Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1107981005439310982005-02-09T13:08:00.000-08:002005-02-09T12:34:00.376-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons: Sermon 16 The Christian MysteriesSummary There is much to learn from the placement of Trinity Sunday right after celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit We receive the Holy Spirit as the source of all spiritual knowledge and discernment But then we celebrate Trinity Sunday in order not to forget that the Gospel has its mysteries “The grace Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-1107907696011118862005-02-08T15:48:00.000-08:002005-02-08T16:17:25.023-08:00Plain and Parochial Sermons Volume 1 Sermon 15: "Religious Faith Rational Bullet point summary There are those who consider Christianity as something strange. Because it is “heavenly” it is thus, superhuman, and irrational. They claim that only those disposed a certain way develop a feeling for Christianity, which is what Christianity is based on, it is more about irrational Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-872280132003-01-10T10:22:00.000-08:002003-01-10T10:22:11.120-08:00OK, I've been fooling around, now back to my Newman grind. I still need to work through the article I am reading, but I got an inspiration to read Newman's Essay on Development closely and break it down. I did that with the Grammar of assent and now I'll do it with the Essay on Development. Part of me is screaming to pay more attention to the Idea of a University and Newman's Oxford Sermons Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-863048562002-12-19T21:07:00.000-08:002002-12-19T21:07:46.343-08:00I'm laboring through an article on hermeneutics and the Essay on Development of Christian doctrine. It is not flowing well for me. I like Newman's more philosophical works, but his devotional and theological works haven't taken yet. I'll post more when I get a handle on this article.Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-859593792002-12-13T11:53:00.000-08:002002-12-19T21:06:20.000-08:00I'm done with "The Semantics of the Grammar" in Faith and Philosophy Vol 7 (April 1990) 218-228, I forget who it is by, I'll post that later (update: Frederick J. Crosson). This was a very good article. the one problem was that it was too short. The insights were significant. The author dealt with the meaning of "image" and "imagination" in Newman. The issue is that for Newman, to assent to Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-858771932002-12-11T20:47:00.000-08:002002-12-13T11:36:40.000-08:00I'm done with Dulles' article called "The Cognitive Basis of Faith." I was very dissappointed, it really said nothing new nor was it incisive. Basically, he says that neither faith alone nor reason alone is right, that the issue is more sophisticated and Newman can make both sides communicate with each other. Tell us something new. On the other hand I just started reading an article called "The Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-858566652002-12-11T13:17:00.000-08:002002-12-11T13:17:00.493-08:00I just finished the Armour article defending Newman's position that love is the safeguard of faith. Quick and dirty background: faith is a kind of knowledge, but faith works in the absence of . . . what am I thinking . . .the visible? Let me say this another way. In regular knowledge we deal with explicit things that lead to knowledge, in the case of faith we dealing with implicit evidence that Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-858234992002-12-10T21:28:00.000-08:002002-12-10T21:28:07.703-08:00I copied a bunch of articles today. I am reading one by Leslie Armour called "Faith, Reason, and Love: A Reply on Behalf of Cardinal Newman," Scottish Journal of Theology volume 34, pp. 437-446. Armour is responding to an article by Jay Newman called, "Newmanon Love as the Safeguard of Faith," in the same journal written a couple of years earlier in 1979. I can't concentrate because I am falling Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-856055632002-12-06T11:42:00.000-08:002002-12-06T11:42:12.403-08:00I need to get back to O'Connell's book, The Oxford Conspirators.Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-856055212002-12-06T11:41:00.000-08:002002-12-06T11:41:03.716-08:00I finished the article last night and was very dissappointed. The article discussed Newman's distinction between inference and assent in respect to the issue of certainty and concludes that Newman's distincition does not work. Inference is an enduring acceptance of a proposisiton on the basis of its antecedent propositions, inference does not rise to the level of certaintly and assent is the Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-851454622002-11-26T20:38:00.000-08:002002-11-26T20:39:23.000-08:00The article I'm reading is by Eric Steinberg in Religious Studies 23 pp. 351-365, called "Newman's Distinction Between Inference and Assent." The article is a little more difficult than it needs to be, but we'll see where he's going. He is treating the development of Newman's understanding of inference and assent. I'm also slowly plodding through Johannes Artz's "Der 'Folgerungssinn' (Illative Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-849112942002-11-21T22:28:00.000-08:002002-11-21T22:28:25.740-08:00Still reading O'Connell's book. I am also reading an article (I forget who writes it) about the distinction between inference and assent in Newman. I got a headache just looking at this thing, why do these articles have to be so complicated? I also found a book by Nicholaus Theis that my director recommends striongly for its quality and relatively straightforward German. Oh well, one thing I can Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-837903602002-10-30T13:54:00.000-08:002002-10-30T13:54:45.980-08:00After much rangling, in 1832, Whig-backed legislation on emacipation and parliamentary reform was passed. Significant, because it initiates a process of re-shaping attitudes of class, rights, etc. Church of England was affected as they opposed the bill. The Tories were generally opposed and the Whigs were in favor of the bill. This is interesting because the Whigs are Puritan based and you would Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-837825102002-10-30T10:57:00.000-08:002002-10-30T10:57:36.370-08:00In the 1820s the two main issues were Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform.Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-837227552002-10-29T08:35:00.000-08:002002-10-29T08:35:05.833-08:00Oxford Conspirators by Marvin R. O'Connell The Tory party is crumbling, its two main intellectual stalwarts are dead and the Duke of Wellington is intellectually not up to the task. The Whigs, though, are splintered. The main figure for them is Earl Gray (of tea fame). Apparently they are going to initiate the era of the common man, I guess that refers to universal sufferage and graduated income Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-834232092002-10-23T13:55:00.000-07:002002-10-23T20:45:10.000-07:00I'm reading, The Oxford Conspirators: A History of the Oxford Movement, 1833-1845 by Marvin R. O'Connell. My director, Dr. John T. Ford, notes that O'Connell is somewhat anit-Oxford in this book, so note the bias. I think I finally have this down. The Tories were the party identified with the landed aristocracy, so to speak. They were high church, Anglican, Catholic, etc. On the other hand, the Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-815375612002-09-12T20:32:00.000-07:002002-09-12T20:50:42.000-07:00Grammar of Assent: Chapter One Chapter One Text The post below is a commentary on chapter 1 § 1 Modes of Holding and Apprehending Propositions 1. 1 Newman talks about propositions. Propositions consist of a subject and predicate. Newman indicates 3 ways or modes of holding propositions(a) Interrogative—when a question is asked(b) Conditional—a conclusion that implies dependence on other Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3774153.post-814570932002-09-11T07:30:00.000-07:002002-09-11T07:30:26.220-07:00This blog will be my sounding board to work on my John Henry Newman project. It is not for debate but investigation.Onohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17991541298613809184noreply@blogger.com