Notes
John Henry Newman, ‘The Salvation of the Hearer the Motive of the Preacher’, in Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892, p. 18.
On Henri Bremond (1865–1933) see André Blanchet, Vie de Bremond 1865–1904, Paris, Aubier, 1967, which brings Bremond’s life up to his separation from the Jesuits in 1904. Charles Chauvin, Petite vie de Henri Bremond (1865–1933), Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2006, supplies a complete biography.
A list of the sermons Bremond chose, in their thematic groupings, may be found in the Appendix.
‘The book was immediately successful. Four editions of it were published within a year and it became available to an English audience through the translation of 1907’ (Roger Haight, ‘Bremond’s Newman’, Journal of Theological Studies, no 36, 1985, p. 363).
Henri Bremond, ‘Apologie pour les newmanistes français’, Revue pratique d’apologétique, no 3, 1906–1907, p. 661.
The bulk of the chapter reprints an earlier essay by Bremond, ‘Les sermons de Newman’ (Études, no 72, July-Sept. 1897, p. 343–68).
For further particulars on French translations of Newman’s works, see Sister Mary Benoit Holahan, Newman in France, Diss. University of Illinois, 1943, ch. II. For a more detailed survey of the contents of these and other volumes of translations, see Henri Bremond, ‘L’Œuvre apologétique de Newman’, Revue pratique d’apologétique, no 2, 1906, p. 89–94.
At that time Sarolea was head of the French department at the University of Edinburgh. See his Cardinal Newman and His Influence on Religious Life and Thought, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1908, p. 2.
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891, p. 408; cf. p. 412–13.
Vincent Ferrer Blehl, The White Stone: The Spiritual Theology of John Henry Newman, Petersham, MA, St. Bede’s Publications, 1993, p. 21. Ian Ker has noted that, ‘even for a public that bought volumes of sermons as eagerly as the Victorians, his Parochial and Plain Sermons achieved remarkable sales.’ Ian Ker, The Achievement of John Henry Newman, London, Collins, 1990, p. 75.
Ian Ker, Newman on Being a Christian, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1990, p. 119.
Ian Ker, The Achievement of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 1990, p. 95.
‘Sermon on the intercourse between Parish Priest and his charge’ (22 March 1829) in Placid Murray ed., John Henry Newman Sermons 1824–1843, vol. 1, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991, p. 6.
Lawrence F. Barmann, Newman at St. Mary’s, Westminster, MD, The Newman Press, 1962, p. xiv.
Henri Bremond, Newman. Essai de biographie psychologique, (referred to as Essai in the notes), Paris, Bloud et Gay, [1906] 1932, p. 182; English translation, The Mystery of Newman, (referred to as Mystery in the notes), tr. H. C. Corrance, London, Williams and Norgate, 1907, p. 172.
Collections of early articles were published as Henri Bremond, L’Inquiétude religieuse. 1st ser. (Paris, Perrin, 1901) and as Âmes religieuses. (Paris, Perrin, 1902).
Sister Mary Benoit Holahan, op. cit., p. 37.
Sister Mary Benoit Holahan, op. cit., p. 41.
Henri Bremond, Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France, vol. I, L’Humanisme dévot, [1916], Paris, Bloud et Gay, 1921, p. v-vi; English translation, A Literary History of Religious Thought in France, vol. I, Devout Humanism, tr. K. L. Montgomery, London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1928, p. v.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. v; Mystery, p. vii.
See note 13, supra.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. v; Mystery, p. vii.
‘Newman’s sermons often shed light on his own interior life because he not only practiced what he preached but preached what he practiced. Moreover there are at times oblique references to personal spiritual experiences in his sermons’ (Vincent Ferrer Blehl, Pilgrim Journey. John Henry Newman 1801–1845, London, Burns & Oates, 2001, p. x).
See Henri Bremond, ‘La logique du cœur. M. Brunetière et “l’irrationnel” de la foi’ in Henri Bremond, L’Inquiétude religieuse, op. cit. p. 91–130.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 169; Mystery, p. 161.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 166–68; Mystery, p. 157–61. This sermon was published in vol. IV of Parochial and Plain Sermons. 1st translation in La vie chrétienne may be found on p. 49–63.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 169; Mystery, p. 161.
In Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 173–74; Mystery, p. 166–68. In effect, Bremond did reproduce the sermon in its entirety in La vie chrétienne, p. 322–35 as ‘Les risques de l’acte de foi’. ‘The Ventures of Faith’ may be found in vol. IV of Parochial and Plain Sermons.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 171 and p. 172–73n.; Mystery, p. 164 and p. 165n. Bremond is quoting ‘The State of Grace’, also from vol. IV of Parochial and Plain Sermons, but not included in La vie chrétienne.
Sister Mary Benoit Holahan, op. cit., p. 41.
In his review of the Essai Ernest Dimnet wrote that a reader ‘will likely find that the severity of part of the sermons is carried to the point of gloominess’ (Ernest Dimnet, ‘Review of Henri Bremond, Newman. Essai de biographie psychologique’, Revue du clergé français, no 47, 1906, p. 301).
Newman to Samuel Wilberforce, 10 march 1835, quoted in Vincent Ferrer Blehl, The White Stone, op. cit., p. 62 (italics in original). In Blehl’s considered judgment, ‘Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons have been criticized as harsh even to the extent of preaching “a gospel of gloom,” devoid of joy. These criticisms have been effectively refuted, but I think that it has to be acknowledged that the vagueness about forgiveness of sin with a consequent overemphasis on the need of constant repentance, as well as Newman’s confusion between the inclination to sin and sin itself have given some of the sermons on sin a gloomy cast indeed’ (Vincent Ferrer Blehl, op. cit., p. 67–68). Cf. Ian Ker’s observations in Ian Ker, The Achievement of John Henry Newman, op. cit., p. 84–87 and in Ian Ker, Healing the Wound of Humanity. The Spirituality of John Henry Newman, London, Darnton, Longman and Todd, 1993, p. 87–94.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 204; Mystery, p. 197.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 215; Mystery, p. 210.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 216; Mystery, p. 211.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 217; Mystery, p. 211.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 228–29; Mystery, p. 226.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 230; Mystery, p. 227.
Id. ‘The Powers of Nature’ figures in the second volume of Parochial and Plain Sermons, and in La vie chrétienne on p. 140–50.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 232; Mystery, p. 229. John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, vol. 2, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891, p. 366. There are some differences in capitalization between Newman’s text and its quotation in Mystery.
Henri Bremond, Essai p. 236; Mystery, p. 234. Complete text of sermon in Parochial and Plain Sermons, vol. IV and La vie chrétienne, p. 34–48. Again, there are minor differences between Parochial and Plain Sermons and Mystery.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 237; Mystery, p. 235.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 159; Mystery, p. 149–50. The sermon in question is ‘A Particular Providence as revealed in the Gospel’ in vol. III of Parochial and Plain Sermons; also in Part I of La vie chrétienne.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 242; Mystery, p. 242.
Id.
Id. Bremond entitled the initial chapter of the Essai, ‘The Solitary by Choice’.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 242; Mystery, p. 241–42. See vol. III of Parochial and Plain Sermons, p. 135 and La vie chrétienne, p. 171–82.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 243; Mystery, p. 243.
Lawrence F. Barmann, op. cit., p. xv.
Suffice to say that in these chapters Bremond continues to find the preaching revelatory of the man. For instance, in the chapter on ‘Prayer’ we find, ‘When [Newman] preaches on prayer he betrays to us, in spite of himself, the habits, the methods, the difficulties and the joys of his own devotion’ (Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 256; Mystery, p. 259).
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. xxiv; Mystery, p. xiv.
Henri Bremond, ‘La première conversion de Newman’, Annales de philosophie chrétienne, no 151, 1905–1906, p. 166 and p. 169.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. xxv; Mystery, p. 16.
Henri Bremond, ‘La première conversion de Newman’, op. cit., p. 174–75.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 330; Mystery, p. 336.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 343; Mystery, p. 350.
Roger Haight, ‘Bremond’s Newman’, op. cit., p. 373.
Henri Bremond, Essai, p. 351; Mystery, p. 358.
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