A Study of Newman's Epistemological Thought in Light of a Model of Conception

Dissertation, Graduate Theological Union (1995)
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This dissertation is concerned with the question of whether a system or consistency of ideas can be found ill Newman's epistemological thought. It explores this problem in terms of only two texts, The Theological Papers of John Henry Newman on Faith and Certainty and An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. ;In the first chapter a model of association or conception is explicated from material in the Theological Papers. This model attempts to account for the way Newman understands the process by which the mind knows things external to the self. ;The following chapters present three readings of the Grammar of Assent. The readings in chapters two and three are both addressed to the text as it stands. Chapter two presents the basic ideas of the text as found in its two parts. Chapter three attempts to illuminate Newman's central concern with the issue of a substitution of one way of knowing for another. ;The last chapter attempts to see the model of conception derived from the Theological Papers as a key to interpreting the Grammar. It asks if conception as a way of knowing external things can be seen to underlie both what Newman says about real apprehension and assent in Part I and about informal inference and accumulating probabilities in Part II. ;If this view of Newman's thought in terms of a model of conception is plausible, this study would become the foundation for an explication of an implicit doctrine of real knowledge. Such an explication would apply the model of conception to material from Newman's Oxford University Sermons and An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. This doctrine would be a way of presenting Newman's response to the rationalists' objection that things above reason cannot be known as objects of faith. It would do so by accounting for a knowledge of divine realities in terms of objects external to the self. The doctrine would allow for a presentation of faith in terms of a real knowledge by which the believer is related to self, to the world and to God

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