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Subject: Catholic Studies (Grad) (CSMA)
CRN: 43114
Topics Lecture 1
St Paul: Sitzmann Hall 207
John Henry Newman has been called, somewhat misleadingly, the father of the Second Vatican Council. His influence on the Council was largely indirect but it can be traced fairly clearly on the two conciliar documents on Revelation and the Church. The Church historian Jaroslav Pelikan insisted that Newman was the most important theologian of the modern era. T. S. Eliot argued that he is one of the two most eloquent English sermon writers. James Joyce added that he was the best prose stylist in English. Pope Benedict XVI stressed his importance as the theologian of conscience, presided at his beatification in England in September 2010 and has called for his canonization and declaration as doctor of the Church. In this course we will examine not only Cardinal Newman’s most important theological works focusing on the development of doctrine and the role of conscience in relation to Church authority, but also his philosophical works addressing the relations of faith and reason, his work on university education and selected poetry, meditations and devotions, novels, and sermons.
3 Credits