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.9 Issue 1, Spring 2012

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ARTICLES

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: APOLOGIST FOR THE LAITY

WILLIAM J. KELLY, S.J.       

This essay, which traces the development of Newman’s thinking on the role of the laity in the Christian Church, is a sequel to an earlier study showing that the underlying image of his development of doctrine is his own personal development;  accordingly, it is impossible to separate the events of Newman’s biography from his teaching on the role of the laity.  

William J. Kelly, S.J., retired associate professor of Theology at Marquette University, presented this paper at the National Newman Conference at the University of Notre Dame in August 2009.

 

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN’S APOLOGIA: PERSONAL TESTIMONY AS A METHOD OF EVANGELIZATION AND APOLOGETICS 

JOHN D. LOVE

After examining the ways in which Newman employed the tools of rhetoric in his Apologia pro Vita Sua in response to Charles Kingsley’s charges against him, this essay charts Newman’s use of his personal testimony to proclaim the Gospel and defend the Catholic Faith and concludes with an analysis of the strengths and potential weaknesses of his approach.

John D. Love is an assistant professor of Systematic and Moral Theology at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

 

THE OXFORD ORIGINS OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN’S EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT IN THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

STEPHEN MORGAN

This essay, originally a presentation at the annual conference of the Newman Association of America at St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, New Hampshire, in 2011, argues that The Idea of a University reflects a notion of university education that was already present in all its essentials in Newman’s thought by 1830.  Newman’s experience as an undergraduate, his early years as a Fellow of Oriel College and his correspondence with Edward Hawkins during the Tutorship-dispute indicate that Newman’s ideas about university education could only have originated in the Anglican Oxford of his time.

Stephen Morgan, a doctoral student at St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, is studying the notions of continuity and change in Newman’s Anglican writings.  Married with three teenage children, Morgan is a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Portsmouth (England), where he is Financial Secretary to the Bishop, Secretary to the Trustees and Head of Finance and Property.

 

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN'S VISION OF THE RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: THE PLACE OF FORMATION IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION

JOSEPH M. HORTON

This essay—originally a presentation at the annual conference of the Newman Association of America at Saint Anselm College in July 2011—explores Newman’s vision of the residential college as the place of formation in the process of education and claims that many of Newman’s ideas, far from being out-dated, have an important place in higher education today.

Joseph M. Horton is Vice President of Student Affairs at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire.

 

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND THE ARGUMENT OF HOLINESS

CYRIL O’REGAN

This essay examines Newman’s life-long campaign against the errors of liberal religion, particularly its “anti-holiness” principle that rejects the Christian commitment to the pursuit of sanctity.  In both his Anglican and Roman Catholic writings, Newman attacked the “anti-holiness” principle’s underlying presuppositions, particularly (1) its naturalistic anthropology, (2) its “anthropocentric horizon of discourse,” (3) its rejection of ascetic discipline in religious formation, and (4) its tendency to accept uncritically what is intellectually novel. 

Cyril O’Regan is Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

REVIEW ESSAY

FRANK M. TURNER ON JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND DEVELOPMENT:AN EXAMPLE OF EISEGESIS

DONALD G. GRAHAM

The late Frank M. Turner’s revisionist biography, John Henry Newman:  The Challenge to Evangelical Religion has caused controversy.  This essay considers one of Turner’s controversial contentions, namely, that Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845) is a naturalistic account of the history of the Christian church—an account devoid of the presence of Providence. 

Donald G. Graham is adjunct professor of systematic theology at the Institute of Theology of St. Augustine’s Seminary, Toronto School of Theology, Canada.

BOOK REVIEWS

Brian W. Hughes: Saving Wisdom: Theology in the Christian University 
Reviewed by Todd Ream, Indiana Wesleyan University

Ian Ker: G.K. Chesterton
Reviewed by Bernadette Waterman Ward, University of Dallas

Benjamin John King: Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England.
Reviewed by Charles Hefling, Boston College

Jane Rupert: John Henry Newman on the Nature of the Mind
Reviewed by Daniel Gallagher, Pontifical Gregorian University

Pauline J. Shaw: Elizabeth Hayes: Pioneer Franciscan Journalist
Reviewed by Colette Roy, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi

Luke Savin Herrick Wright: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church
Reviewed by Edward Enright, Merrimack College

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