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The Imagination in the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman’s reflections on what he described as ‘the theology of a religious imagination’ contain considerations that are relevant to the disciplines of philosophy and literature as well as theology. Newman was convinced that all beliefs—religious, secular or political—must first be credible to the imagination and that the religious object is only adequately appropriated via an imaginative process that calls to mind the working of the literary imagination. Drawing especially on the Romantic tradition, Newman portrays the imagination as the capacity to relate to an object as a ‘whole’, that is to say, as something with a claim on us. This understanding of the imagination is at work in Newman’s discussion of the ‘idea’ of Christianity and its progress (or lack thereof) through history. The Christian ‘idea’ can only be discerned to the degree that it comes to expression in a variety of historical forms. These, in turn, become the object of inquiry and reflection. For Newman, then, the adequate appropriation of the object of Christian faith requires both an act of the imagination and a willingness to engage in critical, historical reflection.
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Conscience and Selfhood: Thomas More, John Henry Newman, and the Crisis of the Postmodern Subject
Both Thomas More and John Henry Newman understood the human subject as a historically situated, responsible, and dynamic being that realizes itself through conscientious moral action amid the ambiguities of history. Both men were also obliged to come to terms with the tensile relationship between loyalty to conscience and loyalty to tradition. Their lives and their work would seem to resonate with, and constitute a challenge to, the contemporary postmodern debate about the nature of selfhood.
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Institutional Authority: A Christian Perspective
Merrigan seeks to make clear to the non-Christian visitor why, despite the chaos, a Christian can still feel at home in, and even cherish, the Christian family that is the church. Part 1 provides a description of the Christian home--an outline of the most striking features of the Christian religion. Part 2 aims to take the visitor into the heart of the Christian home. Part 3 will deal with the impressions that a visitor might have of the Christian home if he or she were to drop by on a very busy weekday, when there are still a lot of chores to be done and there has been no time for housecleaning. Lastly, part 4 provides an analysis of how a member of the family or the community of the church might go about coping with the exercise of institutional authority.
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Newman and Theological Liberalism
[The author's point of departure is the fact that both “liberals” and “conservatives” appeal to John Henry Newman to support their positions. However, Newman's attitude towards “liberalism” was much more nuanced than either party acknowledges. His own theology was characterized by a continual struggle to maintain a tensile unity between opposing tendencies and concerns. Hence, neither liberals nor conservatives can simply claim Newman as their own. In his quest for unity, Newman can serve as a model for our theologically polarized age.]
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Religious Knowledge in the Pluralist Theology of Religions
[Editor's Note: The so-called pluralist theologians, who recognize the covalidity and coefficacy of other religions and saviors, appear to share a common vision of the character of humankind's religious knowledge. The pluralists seem to be united in regarding all religious knowledge as evolutionary, culturally determined, pragmatic, and polar. The author attempts to substantiate this thesis by investigating the writings of leading pluralists, including John Hick, Paul Knitter, and Raimundo Panikkar.]
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