I am asking folks to consider purchasing this wonderful book on John Henry Newman. for $1500now on PrePub for $160!
I don't think most people realize across all denominations of Christianity how much Newman offered. He anticipated many key themes of the church and Christianity well before their time. Newman was a
deeply historical theologian.
Newman was always
careful not to exaggerate. It is well known,
for example, that Newman championed the cause of the laity, but he
never conceived of some kind of lay as opposed to clerical church. From
his study of the Greek Fathers he understood the church to be primarily
a sacramental communion. The church was not primarily hierarchical, as post-Tridentine theology
assumed, but nor was it a lay democracy. Again, for instance, Newman
understood Revelation to be primarily the revealing of God in Christ
rather than the revealing of doctrinal propositions, but because his
theology of Revelation was personal rather than propositional that did
not mean that he did not think doctrinal truths to be essential for our
apprehension of God in Christ.
There is a lot to learn from John Henry Newman, especially about church history, and I have found his writings to be balanced and extremely informative of both sides of an issue. Worth a read, especially for this cost!
