Can our passional nature play a legitimate epistemic role in our lives? In this article, we argue that John Henry Newman was right to think that our passional nature can indeed play such a role. First, we unpack the standard objection to Newman’s understanding of the relationship between our passional nature and the evidential basis of faith. We use “passional nature” as an umbrella term to cover the affective side of the person (passions, affections, emotions) that often bears on the pursuit of epistemic goods like true belief, knowledge, and wisdom. Second, we argue that the standard objection to Newman operates with a narrow definition of evidence (where evidence is synonymous with arguments and a third-person perspective). After challenging this notion, we then offer a broader and more humane understanding of evidence. Third, we survey recent scholarship arguing that emotions, a key aspect of our passional nature, are cognitive. In this light, they plausibly have a proper epistemic role. Fourth, we defend Newman’s reliance on the passional nature in epistemic matters by showing how reasonable it is in light of this recent work on evidence and the nature of emotions. Newman’s insistence that the formation of a right state of heart and mind is crucial for epistemic success is far from untenable.
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{"title":"Los principios del cristianismo: Una Teología Fundamental según Newman by Fernando María Cavaller (review)","authors":"John T. Ford","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"110 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44949002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Past, Present, and Future of Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue ed. by Terrence Merrigan and John Friday (review)","authors":"P. Huff","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"116 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44430096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unearthly Beauty: The Aesthetic of St John Henry Newman by Guy Nicholls (review)","authors":"M. Muller","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"118 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48969831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There are few uncontroversial statements in the contemporary intra-Catholic debate on the recent conciliar tradition. One of them is that John Henry Newman was not only one of the major contributors to the teaching, reception, and interpretation of Vatican I, but can be seen also as one of the “fathers of Vatican II.”1 A significant part of the importance of Newman’s contribution in shaping Catholic tradition has to do with the understanding of the papacy in a new historical and cultural context.2 One way to understand the importance of Newman is to reflect on the unfinished trajectories of modern Catholicism originating from the Vatican councils, particularly on the evolution of the papacy in global Catholicism. The papacy was at the center of the discussions at Vatican I and Vatican II. Conversely, the papacy has become one of the most important sources for the interpretation of these two councils and of their mutual relationship. On 14 February 2013, in one of the last public speeches before his resignation, which he had announced just three days before, Pope Benedict XVI delved, with remarks delivered a braccio (without a formal text), into his autobiographical interpretation of Vatican II before the clergy of Rome. Benedict XVI, the last pope who had been present at Vatican II, connected the two latest councils of the Catholic Church in a way that configured Vatican II as a completion of Vatican I, but also the ecclesiology of Vatican II as an extension of the ecclesiology of Vatican I:
{"title":"Vatican I, the New Papacy, and the Crisis of Catholic Globalization","authors":"M. Faggioli","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0017","url":null,"abstract":"There are few uncontroversial statements in the contemporary intra-Catholic debate on the recent conciliar tradition. One of them is that John Henry Newman was not only one of the major contributors to the teaching, reception, and interpretation of Vatican I, but can be seen also as one of the “fathers of Vatican II.”1 A significant part of the importance of Newman’s contribution in shaping Catholic tradition has to do with the understanding of the papacy in a new historical and cultural context.2 One way to understand the importance of Newman is to reflect on the unfinished trajectories of modern Catholicism originating from the Vatican councils, particularly on the evolution of the papacy in global Catholicism. The papacy was at the center of the discussions at Vatican I and Vatican II. Conversely, the papacy has become one of the most important sources for the interpretation of these two councils and of their mutual relationship. On 14 February 2013, in one of the last public speeches before his resignation, which he had announced just three days before, Pope Benedict XVI delved, with remarks delivered a braccio (without a formal text), into his autobiographical interpretation of Vatican II before the clergy of Rome. Benedict XVI, the last pope who had been present at Vatican II, connected the two latest councils of the Catholic Church in a way that configured Vatican II as a completion of Vatican I, but also the ecclesiology of Vatican II as an extension of the ecclesiology of Vatican I:","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"21 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42712080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A few days ago, [I paid] a visit to Fr. de Lubac, with whom I was not acquainted and who welcomed me with charming courtesy into his small room on the fifth floor of a modern building in the Rue de Sèvres. Books lined the walls, but fewer than I would have expected. Slim, dressed in black, with fine features, eyes of a beautiful shade of blue and charmingly expressive, which radiate a subdued and peaceful strength. He told me how much he admired Newman.1
{"title":"Preservation of Type and the Continuity of Patristic Principles in the Legacies of Saint John Henry Newman and Henri de Lubac","authors":"Theresa Nguyen","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0018","url":null,"abstract":"A few days ago, [I paid] a visit to Fr. de Lubac, with whom I was not acquainted and who welcomed me with charming courtesy into his small room on the fifth floor of a modern building in the Rue de Sèvres. Books lined the walls, but fewer than I would have expected. Slim, dressed in black, with fine features, eyes of a beautiful shade of blue and charmingly expressive, which radiate a subdued and peaceful strength. He told me how much he admired Newman.1","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"22 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44973513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Henry Newman on Truth and Its Counterfeits: A Guide for Our Times by Reinhard Hütter (review)","authors":"M. K. Tillman","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"105 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42760352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Henry Newman: el viaje al Mediterráneo de 1833 by Victor García Ruiz (review)","authors":"John T. Ford","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"121 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45918169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unlike apostolicity and authority, the topic of the holiness of the church in the thought of John Henry Newman is strikingly undramatic. Yet, by “undramatic” we do not mean unimportant, but rather unchanged. As both an Anglican and a Catholic, the fact that the church of Jesus Christ was holy remained a simple and patent fact.2 The fact that this vision traversed Newman’s dramatic conversion in 1845 reveals all the more how centrally situated it was within his vision of the church. Throughout his life, Newman was deeply invested in the theme of holiness, attuned particularly to the modern demand to render an account of the church’s members’ sins. In his Anglican period, this investment centered principally around the papacy; it was only after his conversion that his interest extended more broadly to the entire church. It was Newman’s perennial consolation to see this sanctity continually radiating from Christ within the very heart of the church: “One living Saint, though there be but one, is a pledge of the whole Church Invisible. Let this thought console us.”3 Newman’s ecclesiology, though seemingly minor to his corpus, was integral to the very architecture of his theology. With affinities to Johann Adam Möhler, it was distinctively personalistic.4 To describe it as such is not to imply any connection
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