"They know him by his voice": Newman on the imagination, christology, and the theology of religions
Newman's gift to Catholic theology is the gift of "wisdom": an ability to discern the shape of the whole, not by way of "generalized laws or metaphysical conjectures" but through the "concrete" and "living" soil of the religious imagination. Newman's...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publ.
2007
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2007, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-85 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Newman, John Henry, Saint 1801-1890
/ Religious life
/ Imagination
/ Christology
/ Theology of religions
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations NBF Christology |
| Summary: | Newman's gift to Catholic theology is the gift of "wisdom": an ability to discern the shape of the whole, not by way of "generalized laws or metaphysical conjectures" but through the "concrete" and "living" soil of the religious imagination. Newman's elemental trust in the religious sensibilities of non-Christians and the revelatory roots of "natural religion" proceeds from his view of the religious imagination as the experiential, pre-verbal, and pre-conceptual realm of contact between God and human persons always and everywhere. Above all Newman recognizes the salvific character of a life of personal holiness. In this respect the life of Christ exemplifies continuity and not radical interruption with countless human beings outside our usual ken who quietly lead lives of sacramental holiness. Bringing Newman into dialogue with contemporary theologians such as Jacques Dupuis, Roger Haight, Terrence Merrigan, and Thomas Merton, the author proposes four lessons for a theology of religions cast "under the light of Wisdom". |
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| ISSN: | 0018-1196 |
| Contains: | In: Heythrop journal
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