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Newman on Love as the Safeguard of Faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Jay Newman
Jay Newman
Affiliation:
Department of PhilosophyUniversity of GuelphGuelph, Ontario, Canada NIG 2WI
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Extract

In one of the sermons that he preached at Oxford while still an Anglican, Newman argued that love is the safeguard of faith against superstition.1 This thesis strikes me as being false, for reasons which I shall indicate; but it merits consideration by students of the epistemology of religion, if only because it is a provocative ‘solution’ to some central problems of philosophy and theology which are disturbingly persistent in their relevance. Before we consider whether Newman's position is unsound, let us see how he arrived at it.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 139 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1979

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References

page 139 note 1 Newman, John Henry, ‘Love the Safeguard of Faith against Superstition’ (preached on 21st May 1839), in Fifteen Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford (3rd ed., 1871). This sermon is abbreviated in the text as L, with the section number following.Google Scholar

page 140 note 1 ‘Preface to the Third Edition’, op. cit., section 13. cf. op cit., sermon 11, sections 8–9.

page 140 note 2 ibid., section 14. cf. op. cit., sermons 4, 9–12.

page 142 note 1 Also L. 1–12.

page 148 note 1 Tillich, Paul, Dynamics of Faith (New York: Harper & Row, 1958), pp. 30–35.Google Scholar

page 149 note 1 ibid., p. 4.

page 149 note 2 ibid., pp. 30–40.

page 149 note 3 Lunn, Arnold, Roman Converts (Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1966 [1924]), p. 80.Google Scholar

page 150 note 1 An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, ch. 5, section 1.