Newman Studies Journal

Twice a year, NINS publishes the Newman Studies Journal (NSJ), which offers Newman-related articles in diverse fields, including philosophy, theology, spirituality, history, literature, and education.

Sources for NSJ articles include accepted submissions from the participants in the Newman Scholarship Program, select presentations from the Annual National Conference of the Newman Association of America, and unsolicited contributions submitted by Newman scholars throughout the world. Reviews of new works related to Newman are included, along with a Newman chronology and bibliography.

The Journal is a peer-reviewed publication under the supervision of an editorial board composed of noted Newman scholars. The editorial office is located at the Gailliot Center for Newman Studies.

PREVIEW: Vol.7 Issue 2, Fall 2010

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EDITORIAL PREFACE

 

EX UMBRIS ET IMAGINIBUS IN VERITATEM

“FROM SHADOWS AND IMAGES INTO TRUTH”

John Henry Newman’s Memorial Epitaph

 

ARTICLES

 

ADAM STEWART

John Henry Newman and Andrew Martin Fairbairn:

Philosophical Scepticism and the Efficacy of Reason in The Contemporary Review Exchange

 

This essay examines the contrasting conceptualizations of reason in the thought of John Henry Newman and Andrew Martin Fairbairn in their articles published in The Contemporary Review in 1885. This essay articulates both Fairbairn’s charge of philosophical scepticism against Newman as well as Newman’s defense of his position and concomitantly details Fairbairn’s and Newman’s competing notions of the efficacy of reason to provide reliable knowledge of God. The positions of Fairbairn and Newman remain two of the most important perspectives on the role of reason in the acquisition of knowledge about God in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian theology. 

 

Adam Stewart, a Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, wishes to thank Peter C. Erb for introducing him to the thought of John Henry Newman, and in particular to the significance of The Contemporary Review exchange.  

 

 

ROBERT SALEY

 Two Models of Figural Historiography: Newman and De Lubac

This essay investigates the problem of reconciling contingent historical facts and immutable dogma in light of the two different models of figural historiography, presented respectively in John Henry Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine and Henri de Lubac’s Catholicism: A Study of Dogma in Relation to the Corporate Destiny of Mankind.  Although Newman’s and de Lubac’s approaches to history were quite different, they are fundamentally complementary.

Robert Saley is a doctoral student in systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

 

 Marcin Kuczok

Conceptual Metaphors for the Notion Of Christian Life in John Henry Newman’s Parochial And Plain Sermons

 

From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, metaphor is a way of thinking and understanding rather than an ornamental device used for aesthetic purposes. Conceptual metaphor constitutes a natural device for comprehending those areas of reality that exceed what is describable by literal terms, including especially the sphere of religious experiences. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the conceptual metaphors employed by John Henry Newman in the first volume of his Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834) as a way of explaining the transcendental character of the concept of the Christian life.

 

Marcin Kuczok, who has earned graduate degrees in English philology from the University of Silesia and in theology from the University of Opole (Poland), is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Silesia, where he is working on a thesis concerning Newman’s language.

 

 ALEXANDER B. MILLER

The Reasonableness of Faith and Assent in Newman’s Parochial  and Plain Sermons and Grammar of Assent

 

Among the most overlooked sources for studying Newman’s epistemology are his sermons, particularly his Parochial and Plain Sermons.  This essay compares Newman’s sermon “Religious Faith Rational” (1829) and his discussion of “Simple Assent” in his Grammar of Assent (1870), both of which defend faith or assent in daily life; this comparison reveals both a strong influence of the sermons on the Grammar and a shift in Newman’s understanding of the term “faith.”

 

Alexander B. Miller, who recently completed an MA  in Patristics at the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), is now pursuing a graduate degree in Near Eastern Studies at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC).

 

 MICHAEL KEATING

 

Professors versus Tutors: Pusey and Vaughan at Oxford

After Newman’s decision to become a Roman Catholic in 1845, Oxford witnessed a fierce battle over the future of the university: would Oxford remain a Christian and Anglican institution, or would it become a purely national, and secular, endeavor?  On the Anglican side, the most weighty protagonist was Newman’s former colleague, Edward Pusey.  Among those arguing for a national and secular university was Henry Halford Vaughan.  In the early 1850s, Pusey and Vaughan engaged in a written controversy, in which they respectively championed a tutorial and a professorial model of learning.  However, the issues at stake were much broader than mere pedagogy, and went to the heart of the nature of the institution as a whole.

 

Michael Keating is an Assistant Professor in the Catholic Studies Department at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

 

 

SERMON STUDY

 

VINH BAO LUU-QUANG

NEWMAN’S THEOLOGY OF THE ECONOMIC TRINITY IN HIS PAROCHIAL AND PLAIN SERMONS: 1835–1841

 

This sermon-study—a sequel to a previous study of Newman’s theology of the Immanent Trinity, 1829–1834 (NSJ 7/1: 73–86)—examines Newman’s theology of the Trinity in the economy of salvation.  Viewing the mystery of the Incarnation as the Revelation of Theologia in Oikonomia, Newman developed a “theology of glorification” and a “theology of within-ness,” which in turn grounded a “theology of Rest and Peace.” Newman’s Trinitarian theology (1835–1841), which was deeply influenced by the Fathers of the Church, was simultaneously his response to the anti-dogmatic Liberalism that rejected Christ’s divinity and so denied the Trinity.

 

Vinh Bao Luu-Quang, a visiting scholar at the National Institute for Newman Studies during the summer of 2009, completed his doctoral studies in systematic theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, in May 2010.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Edward J. Enright, OSA, reviewing

Newman and Truth.  Edited by Terrence Merrigan and Ian Ker.

 

Gerald H. McCarren reviewing

How Italy and Her People Shaped Cardinal Newman: Italian Influences on an English Mind . By Jo Anne Cammarata Sylva

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