Newman Studies Journal

Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2008

Donald Graham
Pages 63-76

Newman’s Sermon on “The Mystery of the Holy Trinity”
A Response to Richard Whately?

After discussing the contents of this sermon—which is structured around the Athanasian Creed and emphasizes the inner life of the Trinity—this study raises the question of whether Newman wrote this sermon as a response to the Trinitarian heterodoxy of his one-time mentor, Richard Whately, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin.