cardinal john henry newman

8/6/2019 Cardinal John Henry Newman

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Was born in London February 21 1801.

Eldest son of John Newman (banker) and

Jemima Fourdrinier(which was a Huguenot,Huguenot was called as French Protestants

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Huguenots were also said in other terms

Calvinist.


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Self-willed, reticent, dreamy ,and physically

delicate although never sickly.

As a young boy Newman had a taste for themysterious, the supernatural, and the

occult(not to apprehend with the mind).

These are the sensations of the unreality is

identified as one hallmark of a true

Platonist.


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Platonist- especially insofar as it asserts

ideal forms as an absolute and eternal

reality of which the phenomena of the world

are an imperfect and transitory reflection.


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Age 14 we can find him reading Tom Paines

essay.

He also read about Humes essay Some French verses about denying the

immortality of the soul

- How dreadful ,but how plausible(seeminglyvalid)


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At the age of 15 he started to read

Evangelical divines.

At 16 he has already acquired a theologicalmentality , and has adopted the idea of

celibacy(the state of being unmarried).


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Summed up to be enthusiastically devoted to

his studies thus earning him a scholarship in

Trinity.

After getting the Scholarship he became

overworked which resulted to failure in his

school.

That began his journey in the career for holy

orders.


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Here he found some certain representatives

from the Anglican Church that began his

interest in the Fathers of the Church.

He also discovered the freshness and the

honesty of the early Church


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Oxford Movement-

"The conception which lay at its base," according tothe Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline,1906, "was that of the Holy Catholic Church as a

visible body upon earth, bound together bya spiritual but absolute unity, though divided intonational and other sections. This conception drewwith it the sense of ecclesiastical continuity, of theintimate and unbroken connection between the

primitive Church and the Church of England, and ofthe importance of the Fathers as guides andteachers


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. It also tended to emphasize points

of communion between those different

branches of the Church, which recognize

the doctrine or fact of Apostolic Succession


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I AM A CATHOLIC by virtue of mybelieving in a God; and if I am askedwhy I believe in a God, I answer that it isbecause I believe in myself, for I feel itimpossible to believe in my ownexistence (and of that fact I am quitesure) without believing also in theexistence of him, who lives as a

Personal, All-seeing, All-judging Being inmy conscience ... A religious mind isever marveling, and irreligious menlaugh and scoff at it because it marvels.


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A religious mind is ever looking out of itself, is

ever pondering God's words, is ever "lookinginto" them with the angels, is ever realizing to

itself him on whom it depends, and who is the

center of all truth and good.

Carnal and proud minds are contented with

self; they like to remain at home; when they

hear of mysteries, they have no devout curiosity

to go and see the great sight, though it be everso little out of their way; and when it actually

falls in their path, they stumble at it.


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As great then as is the differencebetween hanging upon the thought ofGod and resting in ourselves, lifting up

the heart to God, and bringing all thingsin heaven and earth down to ourselves,exalting God and exalting reason,measuring things by God's power andmeasuring them by our own ignorance,

so great is the difference between himwho believes in the Christian mysteriesand him who does not.


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And were there no other reason for the

revelation of them but this gracious one, of

raising us, refining us, making us reverent,

making us expectant and devout, surely this

would be more than a sufficient one.


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A Grammar Of assent

Apologia Pro Vita Sua


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The central argument was that assent or

belief is arrived at not primarily through logic

or demonstration, but by the whole man

The whole man-meaning his feelings ,

memories , associations.


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This was a response to Kingsleys Pamplet:

What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?

He defended with passion from hisexperience. This contained both actions and

feelings.

Here he focuses on himself or as he said

What has gone on within me. He focuses

on his inner mind.


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Newman died on August 11, 1890


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To live is to grow and to

grow is to change

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