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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Newman Studies Journal.daily12026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2004) through current issueLatest Articles: Newman Studies JournalTWOProject MUSE®Newman Studies Journal2153-69451547-9080Latest articles in Newman Studies Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Sensus Fidelium and the Sense of Tradition: Newman and the Present Moment
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975328
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Twelve years ago, the International Theological Commission (ITC), housed within the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued "Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church."1 This remarkable document anticipates the Francis papacy's attempt to take seriously the mystery of the church as not only hierarchical, but also synodal. Of particular note for this article is the document's debt to John Henry Newman. It cites Newman on nine separate occasions and even points out the debt owed to Newman by later theologians. Of Yves Congar, perhaps the most influential theologian at the Second Vatican Council, the ITC writes, "Congar was acquainted with Newman's work and adopted the same scheme" (i.e., the threefold
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallThe Sensus Fidelium and the Sense of Tradition: Newman and the Present Moment2025-11-26text/htmlen-USThe Sensus Fidelium and the Sense of Tradition: Newman and the Present Moment2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®692012026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26History and Revelation: The Deposit of Faith in John Henry Newman's Theory of Development
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975329
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Argued here is that John Henry Newman's theology of divine revelation maintains the fullness of the deposit of faith whose developments preserves its unity. This thesis opposes those theologians who maintain that Newman's explanation of the development of doctrine leads to a teaching of new revelation and that no plausible historical continuity can be demonstrated between the fullness of the deposit of faith and the subsequent teachings of the church.1 Despite rebuttals made by theologians,2 critics have continued to interpret Newman's theology as leading to a teaching of new revelation.3 A theology of new revelation ultimately calls into question the unique events of revelation in Christ and the fullness of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallHistory and Revelation: The Deposit of Faith in John Henry Newman's Theory of Development2025-11-26text/htmlen-USHistory and Revelation: The Deposit of Faith in John Henry Newman's Theory of Development2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®1276012026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26"They mix up their own persons": Genre, Style, and Patristic Rhetoric in Newman's Development of Doctrine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975330
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Newman's fellow Oxfordian, convert, and Oratorian J. D. Dalgairns complained by letter on 20 March 1847 that Newman's "John Bull of a style" in An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine was impossible to translate into French. Its enthymematic logic and "energetic, knock-me-down Saxon words" were so laden with imagery as to require "paraphrase" rather than true "translation."1 While treatments of the doctrinal and historical content of Newman's Development abound, there is very little direct attention given to the stylistic dynamics that Dalgairns found so perplexing to translate. The difficulty in part arose from Newman's unique use of prose to explain theological controversy. He employed groping
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmall"They mix up their own persons": Genre, Style, and Patristic Rhetoric in Newman's Development of Doctrine2025-11-26text/htmlen-US"They mix up their own persons": Genre, Style, and Patristic Rhetoric in Newman's Development of Doctrine2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®1724882026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26The Journey to and Encounter with God in John Henry Newman and St. Bonaventure
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975331
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St. John Henry Newman and St. Bonaventure, both noted theologians, were also spiritual masters, adept at spiritual guidance and articulating the path and challenges of the Christian spiritual journey to God. This article will focus on the journey to, and encounter with, God in Newman's spirituality, using Newman's Parochial and Plain Sermons and his 1865 poem, The Dream of Gerontius. I will use St. Bonaventure's classic, Itinerarium mentis in Deum—The Journey of the Mind to God1—to provide contextual scaffolding for analyzing this theme in Newman since Newman himself does not explicitly write on the journey of the soul to God.2 Bonaventure's Journey of the Mind to God is focused on charting a course for the soul's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallThe Journey to and Encounter with God in John Henry Newman and St. Bonaventure2025-11-26text/htmlen-USThe Journey to and Encounter with God in John Henry Newman and St. Bonaventure2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®1288422026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26Newman and Christian Mysticism: The Anglican Years
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975332
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Few scholars of Christian mysticism or, for that matter, in the field of Newman studies include St. John Henry Newman or his writing in any anthology or study of nineteenth-century Christian mysticism. In 1925, the celebrated and influential scholar of Christian mysticism, Evelyn Underhill, wrote two important books, Mystics of the Church, which went through several reprintings and Mysticism, which went through twelve editions from 1912 to 1930. Newman is not mentioned in either work.1 The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism contains one reference to Newman, but that is solely in reference to doctrinal development.2 Today's Wikipedia entry on nineteenth-century Christian mystics as well as, Bernard
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallNewman and Christian Mysticism: The Anglican Years2025-11-26text/htmlen-USNewman and Christian Mysticism: The Anglican Years2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®1276882026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26John Henry Newman and William J. Abraham on Faith and Reason
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975333
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I am deeply honored by the invitation to give the inaugural William J. Abraham Memorial Lecture. I thank the committee (especially Professor Bruce Marshall) for helpful conversations regarding the lecture series. I have been a reader and interpreter of John Henry Newman's thought (primarily his philosophical thought) for some time. In this respect, it was William J. Abraham (aka, Billy) who introduced me to Newman's thought. I was trained to think mainly in the analytic tradition of philosophy, and so I learned to engage with Newman's thought in this way. Billy, a Northern Irish philosopher and Methodist theologian, was my doctoral advisor during my time as a PhD student at Southern Methodist University.During that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallJohn Henry Newman and William J. Abraham on Faith and Reason2025-11-26text/htmlen-USJohn Henry Newman and William J. Abraham on Faith and Reason2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®664362026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26An Evangelical Adrift: The Making of John Henry Newman's Theology by Geertjan Zuijdwegt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975334
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In the field of Newman Studies, biographies of John Henry Newman very early on became an industry unto themselves. From short popular works, to massive tomes and multivolume productions, biographies of Newman have shared a common point of reference: the subject's own autobiography, the Apologia pro Vita Sua: Being a History of his Religious Opinions (1864) and other autobiographical writings. In recent decades three biographies, published by Ian Ker, Sheridan Gilley, and Frank Turner, have advocates promoting them as the standard for this field of study. One of these authors even claimed to have written "the definitive" biography. No doubt one of Newman's first biographers, Wilfrid Ward, might have imagined himself
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallAn Evangelical Adrift: The Making of John Henry Newman's Theology by Geertjan Zuijdwegt (review)2025-11-26text/htmlen-USAn Evangelical Adrift: The Making of John Henry Newman's Theology by Geertjan Zuijdwegt (review)2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®74412026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality: The Art and Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri ed. by Joachim Rodrigues Dos Santos (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975335
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The sixteen essays in this volume represent a significant contribution to our understanding of the eponymous "Art and Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri" and represent the proceedings of an October 2021 conference held in Lisbon of the same name. While the essays are not consciously part of a shared program, they convey the emphasis on art and culture in the development of the Oratory, inherited from St. Philip Neri and the first fathers of the Roman Oratory, both in St. Philip's canonization process and the establishment of new houses. The essays demonstrate a wide geographical focus, with the inclusion of several essays on Asia and the New World being most welcome, though there remains a lacuna in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallBeauty, Devotion and Spirituality: The Art and Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri ed. by Joachim Rodrigues Dos Santos (review)2025-11-26text/htmlen-USBeauty, Devotion and Spirituality: The Art and Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri ed. by Joachim Rodrigues Dos Santos (review)2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®84662026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26Breathers of an Ampler Day: Victorian Views of Heaven by Ian Bradley (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975336
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Breathers of an Ampler Day, written by Ian Bradley, is a synthesis of well-known writers and poets of the Victorian Era, which takes a broad and comparative study of individual theologies around death, dying, and the afterlife. These views of Victorian contemporaries, ascertained from their published poems, sermons, and other writings, provide a greater understanding of Victorian religious thought at large. Bradley compares and contrasts ten different views of heaven expressed in written art forms common of the Victorian Era and names common threads among all of them that reveal the Victorian nuances of belief around end times and the afterlife (eschatology) but also distinguishing differences in belief from one
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallBreathers of an Ampler Day: Victorian Views of Heaven by Ian Bradley (review)2025-11-26text/htmlen-USBreathers of an Ampler Day: Victorian Views of Heaven by Ian Bradley (review)2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®69912026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26La Teología Política de John Henry Newman by Elio A. Gallego García (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975337
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Elio Gallego Garcia gives himself a clear task in his book, La Teología Política de John Henry Newman (The Political Theology of John Henry Newman): to see Newman as clearly as possible on Newman's own terms, rather than interpret the church's newest doctor "exclusively through the eyes of Vatican II" (20) or in light of later developments. To that end, Gallego takes his bearings from Newman's unequivocal statement in the Biglietto speech when he declares himself illiberal and explains that his whole life has consisted of a struggle against liberalism. This brief work is a study of Newman as an illiberal, or rather, an anti-liberal political thinker.Within Gallego's book, liberalism is not chiefly a form of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallLa Teología Política de John Henry Newman by Elio A. Gallego García (review)2025-11-26text/htmlen-USLa Teología Política de John Henry Newman by Elio A. Gallego García (review)2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®99192026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26La idea de Universidad. Definida e ilustrada by Víctor García Ruiz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975338
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John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University remains one of the most influential texts in the modern history of higher education. Its original publication history is complex. The discourses were first delivered in Dublin over a span of six years and initially appeared separately. They were collected and published by James Duffy in a single volume in 1852, and it was not until 1873 that Newman himself edited and released the text in the form we now know. The work has since generated sustained debate on the nature of liberal education, the place of theology within the university curriculum, and the very purpose of academic institutions. This new Spanish edition, La idea de Universidad. Definida e ilustrada
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallLa idea de Universidad. Definida e ilustrada by Víctor García Ruiz (review)2025-11-26text/htmlen-USLa idea de Universidad. Definida e ilustrada by Víctor García Ruiz (review)2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®182132026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26Newman Vignette
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/975339
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So, in mercy to us, without withdrawing His presence, He has included within it, His Saints and Angels, a great company of created beings, nay, of those who once were sinners, and subjects of His kingdom upon earth; that thus we may be encouraged by the example of others before us to look unto Him and live."The Visible Church an Encouragement to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/725/image/coversmallNewman Vignette2025-11-26text/htmlen-USNewman Vignette2025-11-262025TWOProject MUSE®15872026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-26