Newman Studies Journal

This essay explores a relatively unknown and previously unstudied Newman work, The Life of St. Philip: Arranged for the Days of the Year, that he prepared for the use of his nascent English Oratorian community.

This essay discusses Newman’s view of the relationship between Natural and Revealed Religion in his second University Sermon (1830) and in his Grammar of Assent (1870). To what extent did Newman’s view change during the four decades between this early Anglican sermon and his major treatment of the nature of faith as a Roman Catholic?

This essay examines Newman’s approach to the age-old skeptical “problem of the criterion” in his An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. By examining Newman’s accent on the illative sense as right judgment in rationation, especially in the justification of first principles of knowledge, this essay depicts Newman as offering a proceduralist approach to answering “the problem of the criterion.”