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Newman, Probability, and Truth
By Stephen Fields | Aug 17, 2020 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
Oikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry Hart Milman and the Historicism of Ernst Troeltsch
by Patrick Auer Jones | Sep 29, 2021 | Ecclesiology, History, Philosophy, Theology | 0
The dialogue I seek to construct between Troeltsch and Newman hinges particularly on Newman’s reception of the patristic concept of oikonomia.
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by Stephen Fields | Aug 17, 2020 | Philosophy, Theology | 0
The Grammar of Assent, published in 1870, represents Newman’s last major work. As a religious epistemology, it provides systematically thought-through answers to questions that had preoccupied him since his early twenties
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