Tag: COVID-19
“The Fire which Makes Gold Shine”: On Benefiting from Calamity
This article does not take a firm stance on the question of whether the COVID-19 pandemic should be seen as a chastisement sent by God. If we were to follow John Henry Newman’s lead, we would certainly have to remain open to that idea.
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“Lead, Kindly Light”: Trusting God in the Midst of a Pandemic
One of the most important turning points in John Henry Newman’s life involved contracting an illness (probably typhoid fever) while on a trip to Sicily in 1833. Newman was accompanied on the trip by his best friend, Hurrell Froude, and Froude’s father, Robert.
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Oikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry Hart Milman and the Historicism of Ernst TroeltschSeptember 29, 2021The dialogue I seek to construct between Troeltsch and Newman hinges particularly on Newman’s reception of the patristic concept of oikonomia. […]
Why Lingard Didn’t Like NewmanSeptember 24, 2021Lingard remarked upon Newman’s career several times in his correspondence, usually with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity. […]
A Collaborative Digitization Project between the National Institute of Newman Studies, Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, EnglandSeptember 9, 2021As an archivist, I was incredibly excited by the platform and conceptualization of access that NINS was creating, showing a forward-thinking vision that was almost unheard of at the time. […]
Reading Louis Bouyer with Keith Lemna: A Review of The Apocalypse of WisdomAugust 18, 2021The primary purpose of Lemna's masterful book The Apocalypse of Wisdom: Louis Bouyer's Theological Recovery of the Cosmos is to shed light on the "twists and turns of the path Bouyer charts in Cosmos" (xiii). […]
Pusey’s 1843 Sermon on the Eucharist: A Rejected Eucharistic TheologyAugust 11, 2021This article aims to understand why a defense of a corporeal, real presence of Christ in the sacrament was problematic in nineteenth-century England. […]