Notes
B. Lonergan, ‘Revolution in Catholic Theology’, in A Second Collection: Papers by Bernard J.F. Lonergan, ed. W.F.J. Ryan, B.J. Tyrrell, London: Longman, Darton & Todd, 1974, 234.
N. Lash, ‘Tides and Twilight: Newman Since Vatican II’, in Newman After a Hundred Years, ed. Ian Ker, A.G. Hill, Oxford: Clarendon, 1990, 458, n. 40.
E. Przywara, Gottgeheimnis der Welt: Drei Vortrage über die geistige Krisis der Gegenwart, Munich: Theatiner Verlag, 1923, 173.
G. Daly, ‘Newman, Divine Revelation, and the Catholic Modernists’, in Newman and the Word, ed. Terrence Merrigan, Ian Ker, Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs, 27, Leuven: Peeters; Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000, 66.
J. H Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, ed. Edward Sillem, 2 vols., Louvain: Nauwelaerts, 1970, 2: 23.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, ed. Ian Ker, Oxford: Clarendon, 1985, 23, 25, 75.
D. Pailin, The Way to Faith: An Examination of Newman’s ‘Grammar of Assent’ as a Response to the Search for Certainty, London: Epworth, 1969, 122.
T. Merrigan, Clear Heads and Holy Hearts: The Religious and Theological Ideal of John Henry Newman, Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs, 7, Leuven: Peeters; Grand Rapids, MN: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991, 48–81. Where Newman is concerned, both John Hick and John Coulson have warned against depicting mental operations as proceeding from distinct ‘faculties’, and it must be acknowledged that the attempt to do this involves one in all sorts of definitional tangles. In this regard one does well to recall Dorothy Emmet’s observations about precisely the same problem in Coleridge: ‘Coleridge does, it is true, sometimes speak of ‘faculties of the mind’ as though these were a set of separate instruments, but he also struggles against this way of talking—the different faculties are different ways in which the whole person behaves in knowing and perceiving. (Remember, “faculty” means “power”).’ (Dorothy Emmet, ‘Coleridge on Powers in Mind and Nature,’ in Coleridge’s Variety: Bicentenary Studies, ed. J. Beer, London: The Macmillan Press, 1974, 171. See John Hick, Faith and Knowledge, 2d ed., Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966, 76; John Coulson, ‘The Meaning and Function of Imagination According to J. H Newman, and its Relation to his Conception of Conscience and the Church,’ in W. Becker et al. (eds.), Newman Studien, Heroldsberg bei Nürnberg: Glock und Lutz, 11, 1980, 53–61 See also Coulson’s ‘Belief and Imagination,’ Downside Review, 90, 1972, 1–14. The same ought to be borne in mind in Newman’s case, and, as the notes preparatory to the Grammar indicate, Newman did use the terms ‘faculty’ and ‘power’ interchangeably as early as 1868. Writing in 1885, he might even be said to have anticipated both Hick and Coulson: ‘A faculty . . . is the exercise of a power of the mind itself, and that pro re nata; and, when the mind ceases to use it, we may almost say that it is nowhere. Of course, for convenience, we speak of the mind as possessing faculties instead of saying that it acts in a certain way and on a definite subject-matter; but we must not turn a figure of speech into a fact.’ See J. H. Newman, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty, Oxford: Clarendon, 1976, 155, 135. Note the title of these reflections (p. 154): ‘On the Mind’s Faculties existing, not “re”, but “ratione”, and therefore only abstract names for its operations.’ To speak, then, of the imagination and other ‘faculties’, is not necessarily to advocate what Hick describes as a ‘discarded faculty psychology.’ In the final analysis, however, as Mary Warnock points out in her study, Imagination, ‘it is very hard to find a substitute for the vocabulary of faculty psychology.’ She is perhaps correct when she maintains that ‘in fact. . . such vocabulary is steadily becoming more innocuous as we more and more clearly recognize it as metaphorical.’ (See Mary Warnock, Imagination, London: Faber & Faber, 1976, 196).
J. H. Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 1: 210, 215.
S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 2 vols., London: Oxford University Press, 1958, 1: 304; 2: 16.
S. T. Coleridge, Shakespearean Criticism, ed. T.M. Raysor, 2nd ed., 2 vols., London: Dent, 1960, 1: 188 n. 1; S.T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, op. cit., 2: 16.
J. R. Barth, Coleridge and Christian Doctrine, Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 1969, 22.
J. H. Newman, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty, op. cit., 137–8.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 27.
J. H. Newman, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty, op. cit., 137–8.
Ibid., 135.
J. H. Walgrave, Newman the Theologian, London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1960, 110.
J. H. Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, London: Rivingtons, 1877, 166–71.
J. Coulson, Religion and Imagination: ‘in aid of a grammar of assent’, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, 65–6.
J. H. Newman, Fifteen Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, London: Rivingtons, 1890, 330–1.
T. Merrigan, Clear Heads and Holy Hearts: The Religious and Theological Ideal of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 229–32.
J. H. Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989, 16, 38–9; J. H Newman, Roman Catholic Writings on Doctrinal Development, translation and commentary by James Gaffney, London: Sheed and Ward, 1997, 19; J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 22–30.
J. H. Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 41–54.
J. H. Newman, Essays Critical and Historical, 2 vols., London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910, 2: 190, 192; J. H. Newman, Fifteen Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford, op. cit., 333.
J. Coulson, Religion and Imagination: ‘in aid of a grammar of assent’, op. cit., 51–2, 145.
Ibid., 51–2.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 238.
Ibid., 89.
Ibid., 82.
J. H. Walgrave, J. H. Newman: His Personality, His Principles, His Fundamental Doctrines: Course Delivered by Professor J. H Walgrave, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.L.) 1975–1977, Leuven, Belgium: K.U.L., 1981, 102.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 23–5, 103.
J. H. Newman, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty, op. cit., 42, 47.
M. J. Ferreira, ‘Newman and William James on Religious Experience: The Theory and the Concrete’, Heythrop Journal, 29, 1988, 51–2.
W. J. Houghton, ‘Style and the Dramatic Re-creation of the Past’, in J. H Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua, ed. D. J. DeLaura, New York: W.W. Norton, 1968, 433–4.
J. H. Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua, London: Longmans Green, & Co., 1902, 73; our emphasis.
J. H. Newman, Certain Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching, 2 vols, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901, 1: 393.
J. H. Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua, op. cit., 115; our emphasis.
Id.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 465–6.
J. H. Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 37.
J. H. Newman, The Via Media of the Anglican Church, 2 vols., Westminster, MD: Christian Classics, Inc., 1978, 1: xli.
J. H. Newman, The Present Position of Catholics in England, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, 224.
J. H. Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 2: 33, 43, 45, 63, 83.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 74, 105; J. H Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 2: 49.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 74, 76; our emphasis.
Ibid., 109.
Ibid., 79–80.
J. H. Walgrave, ‘La preuve de l’existence de Dieu par la conscience morale et l’expérience des valeurs’, in L’existence de Dieu, Cahiers de l’actualité religieuse, 16, Paris: Casterman, 1961, 117.
J. H. Walgrave, Newman vandaag, Marienburg’s Hertogenbosch: Geert Groote Genootschap, 1957, 25.
T. Merrigan, ‘Newman and Religious Experience’, in L. Boeve & L.P. Hemming (eds.), Divinising Experience: Essays in the History of Religious Experience from Origen to Ricœur, Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 258–60.
Ibid., 272.
Ibid., 260–1.
Ibid., 81.
Ibid., 313; T. Merrigan, ‘“One Momentous Principle Which Enters Into My Reasoning”: The Unitive Function of Newman’s Doctrine of Providence’, Downside Review, 108, 1990, 254–81
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 47; T. Merrigan, ‘Revelation’, in I. Ker & T. Merrigan (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 47–72.
J. H. Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 60–3, 103–4.
J. H Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 2: 61.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 107–112.
Ibid., 105; J. H Newman, The Present Position of Catholics in England, op. cit., 260–1.
J. H Newman, The Present Position of Catholics in England, op. cit., 256.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 349.
J. H Newman, The Present Position of Catholics in England, op. cit., 256.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 115.
Ibid., 116.
J. H Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 2: 39, 41–2.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 390.
J. H Newman, The Philosophical Notebook of John Henry Newman, op. cit., 2: 43; J. H. Walgrave, ‘Conscience de Dieu et conscience de soi: Notes sur le “Cahier philosophique” de Newman’, Revue Thomiste, 79, 1971, 379.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 80, 82, 88.
J. H Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 7, 8.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 102.
Ibid., 110.
J. H Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 3; our emphasis.
Ibid., 29.
N. Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Penguin Modern Classics, Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2007, 107.
N. Lash, ‘Literature and Theory: Did Newman have a “Theory” of Development?’, in J.D. Bastable (ed.), Newman and Gladstone: Centennial Essays, Dublin: Veritas, 1978, 163–4.
W. Jost, Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989, 134.
N. Lash, ‘Faith and History: Some Reflections on Newman’s «Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine»’, Irish Theological Quarterly, 38, 1971, 228.
N. Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, op. cit., 106, 108.
J. H Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 40.
D. Lessing, ‘Preface’, in The Golden Notebook, Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition, London: Harper, 2007, 11. Doris Lessing provides an interesting parallel to Newman’s reflections on the historical ‘progress’ of great ideas. Speaking of Marxism, Lessing writes as follows: ‘But “Marxism” and its various offshoots has [sic] fermented ideas everywhere, and so fast and energetically that, once “way out”, it has already been absorbed, has become part of ordinary thinking. Ideas that were confined to the far left thirty or forty years ago [Lessing is writing in 1971] had pervaded the left generally twenty years ago, and have provided the commonplaces of conventional social thought from right to left for the last ten years. Something so thoroughly absorbed is finished as a force—but it was dominant.’.
N. Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, op. cit., 72.
J. H Newman, The Via Media of the Anglican Church, op. cit., 1: xli.
J. H Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 30.
In his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (op. cit., p. 30), Newman calls the ‘theory of development’ an ‘hypothesis to account for a difficulty.’ The ‘difficulty’ is the Catholic additions to the apostolic teaching. Newman’s solution is his analysis of the way in which a great idea is shaped by—and shapes—the flow of history.
C.S. Dessain, ‘Cardinal Newman on the Theory and Practice of Knowledge: The Purpose of the Grammar of Assent’, Downside Review, 75, 1957, 11.
J. H Newman, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty, op. cit., 24, 26; J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 341, 356–7.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 353–5.
J. Hick, Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction to the Problem of Religious Knowledge, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957, 81.
J. H Newman, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, op. cit., 301, 325, 327, 332, 337, 372.
Ibid., 361.
Ibid., 342, 344–5.
Ibid., 117.
J. H Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, op. cit., 36–8.
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