Richard Whately’s Influence On John Henry Newman’s Oxford University Sermons On Faith And Reason (1839–1840)

Newman Studies Journal 10 (1):82-95 (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In 1839 and 1840, Newman preached four Oxford University Sermons, which critiqued the evidential apologetics advocated by John Locke (1632-1704) and William Paley (1743-1805) and subsequently restated by Richard Whately (1787-1863). In response, Newman drew upon Whately’s earlier works on logic and rhetoric to develop an alternative account of the reasonableness of religious belief that was based on implicit reasoning from antecedent probabilities. Newman’s argument was a creative response to Whately’s contention that evidential reasoning is the only safeguard against superstition and infidelity.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The “French Newman”.C. Michael Shea - 2013 - Newman Studies Journal 10 (1):28-40.
Newman’s Reasonable Approach to Faith.John T. Ford - 2011 - Newman Studies Journal 8 (1):56-66.
John Henry Newman and Andrew Martin Fairbairn.Adam Stewart - 2010 - Newman Studies Journal 7 (2):6-17.
A Study of John Henry Newman's Idea of Religious Faith.J. W. Piersiak - 1989 - Dissertation, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Ideengeschichte als Biographie – Der Entwicklungsgedanke bei John Henry Newman.Burkhard Conrad - 2012 - Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 19 (1):1-13.

Analytics

Added to PP
2017-02-16

Downloads
7 (#1,195,974)

6 months
2 (#658,848)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references