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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{"title":"John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History by Eamon Duffy (review)","authors":"B. King","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"105 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47609693","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":"Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 by David Cannadine (review)","authors":"P. Nockles","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"161 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49140317","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":"Newman at Littlemore by Bernard Basset (review)","authors":"P. Salmon","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"173 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47186734","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 First Vatican Council, John Henry Newman, and the Making of a Post-Christendom Church","authors":"William L. Portier","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2018.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2018.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"123 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2018.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47255301","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}
Abstract:Looking at early history, it would seem as if the Church moved on to the perfect truth by various successive declarations, alternately in contrary directions, and thus perfecting, completing, supplying each other. Let us have a little faith in her, I say. Pius is not the last of the Popes—the fourth Council modified the third, the fifth the fourth … The late definition does not so much need to be undone, as to be completed … Let us be patient, let us have faith, and a new Pope, and a re-assembled Council may trim the boat.
{"title":"\"Not Undone, but Completed\": John Henry Newman and the Reception of Vatican I","authors":"Kristin Colberg","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Looking at early history, it would seem as if the Church moved on to the perfect truth by various successive declarations, alternately in contrary directions, and thus perfecting, completing, supplying each other. Let us have a little faith in her, I say. Pius is not the last of the Popes—the fourth Council modified the third, the fifth the fourth … The late definition does not so much need to be undone, as to be completed … Let us be patient, let us have faith, and a new Pope, and a re-assembled Council may trim the boat.","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"23 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48850112","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":"Sensus Fidelium: The Use of a Concept in the Post-Vatican II Era by Daniel J. Finucane (review)","authors":"Andrew Meszaros","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"166 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44696998","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":"Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee by Peter Ackroyd (review)","authors":"Daniel Waldow","doi":"10.1353/nsj.2020.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2020.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41065,"journal":{"name":"Newman Studies Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"169 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/nsj.2020.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43211543","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}