Clear Heads and Holy Hearts: The Religious and Theological Ideal of John Henry NewmanClear Heads and Holy Hearts is an examination of John Henry Newman's vision of the way in which the individual believer and the community of the Church grow in faith and the knowledge of religious truth. The ideal, at both the individual and the communal level, involves, for Newman, a union of ethical and devotional praxis on the one hand and critical self-reflection on the other - in short, the union of "clear heads and holy hearts". Terrence Merrigan is a member of the Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain), Belgium. He pursued his doctoral studies on Newman under the direction of Jan Hendrik Walgrave. He has published a number of studies on Newman and edited a special centenary issue of "Louvain Studies" (1990) dedicated to the Cardinal's life and thought. |
Contents
The Complexity of Newman | 1 |
A Model for the Understanding of Newman | 7 |
The Model of Polarity and the Study of Newman | 17 |
Newmans Philosophical Realism | 23 |
Newmans Philosophical Realism | 29 |
The Experience of Conscience | 36 |
The Imagination | 48 |
Realizing Imagination | 57 |
Creativity in Theology | 148 |
The Limitations of Theology | 155 |
The Place of Theology in the Corpus Scientiarum | 162 |
Assent to Religious Truth | 171 |
Assent to Propositions | 180 |
Real Assent and the Religious Imagination | 186 |
The Vindication of Assent | 193 |
Certitude as a Polar Ideal | 199 |
The Christian Idea | 82 |
The Cognitive Character of the Apprehension of | 89 |
The Idea in the Life of the Church | 97 |
PART II | 105 |
Notional Apprehension | 114 |
The Sciences | 123 |
The Science of Theology | 131 |
The Experience of Conscience as a Source for Theology | 137 |
The Operation of the Illative Sense | 215 |
The Polar Character of the Illative Sense | 227 |
The Unity Founding the Mind of the Church | 236 |
The Equilibrating Principle of Church Life | 242 |
The Primacy of Dogma Newman the Thinker | 251 |
POSTSCRIPT | 257 |
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abstraction analysis argument aspects belief Boekraad Cardinal Newman Catholic certitude character Church claim cognitive Coleridge complex concern concrete conscience constitutes distinct divine doctrine dogmatic dogmatic definition ecclesiology Emphasis empiricist epistemological Essay on Development Étienne Gilson existence experience express fact faculty Gerard Casey Grammar of Assent grasp human illative sense images impressions individual instinct intellect intuition John Henry Newman judgments knowledge Lash logic matter means Medford mental mind mind's model of polarity moral natural theology nature Newman describes Newman insists Newman writes Newman's thought Newman's view Nicholas Lash nominalist object one's operation Oxford Pailin perception phenomena philosophical phronema prehending imagination principle proposition Przywara rational real apprehension real assent reality realizing imagination reasoning reflection regard religion religious revelation rience Samuel Taylor Coleridge scientific Sillem speak Theologian theology theory things tion tradition truth unity Walgrave Walgrave's whole William Froude words