Cardinal Newman for Today
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Overview
Cardinal Newman for Today presents John Henry Newman’s life as a tree. It is rooted in his encounter with the wisdom of antiquity, the discovery of divine revelation and the encounter with the Fathers of the Church. It produced shoots in the living tradition of the church, the faith-life of believers and the reality of doctrine. Its fruits, finally, are visible in the gospel of joy lived out in obedience to God and conscience.
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- Gives a good survey of how was arrive at Vatican II's Dei Verbum
- Helps to understand Nerman’s entry into ‘the mystery of our religion’
- Shows how Newman’s theology is so timely in the contemporary scene
The Roots: Revelation
- The Initial and Essential Ideal of Christianity: Revelation
- ‘The Fathers Made me a Catholic’
- Discerning the Power of Revelation in the Present
The Shoots: Theology
- The Vigour and Vitality is Sacred Tradition
- The Flowering of Newman’s Theology of Tradition in the Second Vatican Council
- In the Lists with the Doctrinal Liberals: The Strategy and the Struggle
The Fruits: Christian Life
- Fidelity to Conscience: The Way to the Truth
- The Gospel of Joy
- A Builder of Unity
Conclusion
- The Meaning and The Message
This book can be wholeheartedly recommended. It is refreshing reading, full of a living theology, written with a flowing style. One can dip into any of its chapters and gain understanding and light for the ongoing journey of faith. Readers will be grateful to Fr. Norris for showing how Newman’s theology is so timely in the contemporary scene.
—Bishop Dr. Philip Boyce, The Irish Catholic
Norris is no unfamiliar face to Newman studies…. At home with the different theological currents which are alive today, he is one of those who can enrich Newman scholars, both old and new, in his discovery today.
—Fabio Attard, S.D.B., Milltown Studies
- Title: Cardinal Newman for Today
- Author: Thomas J. Norris
- Publisher: New City Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 230
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890; Cardinals › England--Biography
- ISBNs: 9781565483651, 1565483650
- Resource ID: LLS:CRDNLNWMNTDY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:30:29Z