Though his biographers have spoken both at considerable length and with great eloquence concerning Newman’s devotions and prayerfulness, and the great French Oratorian, Louis Bouyer, insisted for decades that this aspect of Newman’s life and thought was not one among others, but the atmosphere of all his work (not only
If Aquinas’s solution emerges from all of Kant’s problems, in what sense, then, can there be a resurrection of Thomas? Is the only possible characterization of Aquinas one where his philosophy and theology resemble to no small degree the artistic world of his fellow Dominican Fiesole, both of whose clearly
Just about everything Newman wrote on any topic over a long career of writing is controversial in some way, or another, and engenders strong responses, whether of outrage or acclaim, frustration or elation, the emotion of being hard-done by or quiet vindication. The experience of reading Newman—either The Idea of
A red thread in Newman’s work across its entire span is the affirmation of a real concrete interiority that is nothing less than the indelible mark of human being. The affirmation is set off against the backdrop of modern ideological forces that would, on the one hand, bleed human beings