Date of Award
7-1985
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Theology
First Advisor
Paul Misner
Second Advisor
William J. Kelly
Third Advisor
Partrick Carey
Fourth Advisor
Joseph Lienhard
Fifth Advisor
John J. Schmitt
Abstract
The concerns that lead me to investigate the notion of Christian
instinct in Newman include some existentially pressing ones as well
as intellectually challenging ones. The notion of Christian instinct is one that appears most notably in Newman's work in his historical expositions of controversies in the early Church, where he finds it noteworthy that orthodoxy was at times maintained not so much by either the hierarchy or theologians as by the simple faithful. Newman's exposition in these historical works of why this should be so can be supplemented by looking at other works where his religious anthropology and epistemology are more explicitly laid out.
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