PREVIEW: Vol.6 Issue 2, Fall 2009

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EDITORIAL PREFACE

“Newman belongs to the great teachers of the church, because he both touches our hearts and enlightens our thinking.”
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

ARTICLES

“The Tracks of Some Unearthly Friend”: John Henry Newman’s Spiritual Theology of the Angels
Elizabeth-Jane Pavlick McGuire

John Henry Newman had a fascination with the angels, as evidenced by three of his published poems and a passage devoted to angels in his Apologia pro Vita Sua, as well as sermons on the angels. Surprisingly, Newman’s interest in angels has not attracted much scholarly attention. After examining some of Newman’s writings that touch upon angels, this essay suggests that Newman’s Romantic and Evangelical background prepared him for his reading of the Fathers in 1828, which in turn influenced his consideration of the significance of angels in the spiritual life.

Elizabeth-Jane Pavlick McGuire is a doctoral candidate in spirituality at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Newman on Conscience
Walter E. Conn

After reviewing Newman’s famous defense of conscience in his Letter to the Duke of Norfolk (1875), this essay assembles Newman’s lifelong reflections on conscience—from his Anglican sermons to his Grammar of Assent (1870)—in a threefold structure: desire, discernment, and demand.

Walter E. Conn, a professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, where he edited Horizons for over twenty-five years, is writing a book on Newman’s Essay on Development.

From Athens to Dublin: John Henry Newman on the History of the University
David Fleischacker

In November 1854, five months before the opening of the Catholic University of Ireland, Newman initiated the publication of the University Gazette as a means of communicating his vision of the university as well as reporting on its activities. Each issue of the Gazette included an essay intended to provide the public with a better understanding of the history, nature, and purpose of the university; these essays also provide insight into Newman's historical understanding of the university and his vision of how the modern Catholic university needs to develop in light of its past.

David Fleischacker is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Newman’s Silence on Fasting as a Roman Catholic
Daniel J. Lattier

In contrast to his Anglican writings and practice—where fasting played a prominent role—Newman as a Roman Catholic was practically silent about fasting. This essay suggests that there were many reasons for Newman’s silence on fasting as a Roman Catholic, such as his health, his Oratorian vocation, and the presence of an established communal practice of fasting in the Roman Catholic Church.

Daniel J. Lattier is a doctoral student in Systematic Theology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Newman and the “New Apologetics”
C. J. T. Talar

This essay explores how Newman’s thought influenced Maurice Blondel’s “new apologetics of action,” as well as the Modernist movement at the beginning of the 20th century.

C. J. T. Talar is a professor at the Graduate School of Theology of the University of St. Thomas at St. Mary’s Seminary, Houston, Texas.

A Via Media between Scepticism and Dogmatism? Newman’s and MacIntyre’s Anti-Foundationalist Strategies
Gerald McCarthy

Beginning with an overview of the knowledge claims proposed by John Locke and David Hume, this essay first explores the respective responses of Newman and W. G. Ward and then updates the discussion by bringing Newman into dialogue with the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Gerald D. McCarthy teaches in the Department of Theology, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts.

NEW EDITION OF NEWMAN’S WRITINGS
Alvaro Silva reviewing: Frank Turner, ed.: Apologia pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons

REVIEW ESSAY
John T. Ford: John Henry Newman: Places, Activities, Ideas

IN MEMORIAM
Stanley Ladislas Jaki

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NEWMAN CHRONOLOGY

NINS UPDATE

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