John Henry Newman citáty
John Henry Newman
Datum narození: 21. únor 1801
Datum úmrtí: 11. srpen 1890
Blahoslavený John Henry Newman byl anglikánský a katolický teolog a filozof, roku 1879 jej Lev XIII. jmenoval kardinálem. Ctihodným byl prohlášen 21. ledna 1991. Papež Benedikt XVI. jej při své návštěvě Spojeného království 19. září 2010 v Birminghamu blahořečil.
Citáty John Henry Newman
„Náboženská pravda je nejen součástí, nýbrž podmínkou všeobecného vzdělání.“
— John Henry Newman
kniha The Idea of a University
„A proto skutečně veliký intelekt, uznávaný obecným míněním lidstva, jako byl intelekt Aristotelův nebo sv. Tomáše Akvinského nebo Newtona nebo Goetha (…), dokáže souhrnně nazřít věci staré i nové, minulé i současné, vzdálené i blízké a má vhled i do všech jejich vzájemných vlivů; bez toho neexistuje žádný celek a žádný střed.“
— John Henry Newman
kniha The Idea of a University
„The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief.“
— John Henry Newman, kniha Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Context: The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief. The only question is, would they have done so in another point besides the θεολογία (theology), etc, which happened in the early ages to be in discussion? I incline to say the Creed is the faith necessary to salvation, as well as to Church communion, and to maintain that Scripture, according to the Fathers, is the authentic record and document of this faith.
It surely is reasonable that 'necessary to salvation' should apply to the Baptismal Creed: 'In the name of,' etc (vid. He who believeth etc.). Now the Apostles' Creed is nothing but this; for the Holy Catholic Church, etc [in it] are but the medium through which God comes to us. Now this θεολογία, I say, the Fathers do certainly rest on Scripture, as upon two tables of stone. I am surprised more and more to see how entirely they fall into Hawkins’s theory even in set words, that Scripture proves and the Church teaches. http://books.google.com/books?id=JbwJVBOvECwC&pg=PA66&dq=%22that+the+sacred+text+was+never+intended+to+teach+doctrine,+but+only+to+prove+it%22&hl=en&ei=k-RlTq__FOStsQKOwrCzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22that%20the%20sacred%20text%20was%20never%20intended%20to%20teach%20doctrine%2C%20but%20only%20to%20prove%20it%22&f=false
I believe it would be extremely difficult to show that tradition is ever considered by them (in matters of faith) more than interpretative of Scripture. It seems that when a heresy rose they said at once ‘That is not according to the Church's teaching,’ i. e. they decided it by the praejudicium [N. B. prescription] of authority.
Again, when they met together in council, they brought the witness of tradition as a matter of fact, but when they discussed the matter in council, cleared their views, etc., proved their power, they always went to Scripture alone. They never said 'It must be so and so, because St. Cyrian says this, St. Clement explains in his third book of the "Paedagogue," etc.' and with reason; for the Fathers are a witness only as one voice, not in individual instances, or, much less, isolated passages, but every word of Scripture is inspired and available.
To Richard Hurrell Froude, August 23, 1835.
Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church, 1890, Anne Mozley, ed., Longmans’s Green & Co., London, New York, Volume 2, p. 113. http://books.google.com/books?id=uak8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA113&dq=%22the+more+i+read+of+athanasius,+theodoret%22&hl=en&ei=CeBlTqH1K4m2sQL91pm3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20more%20i%20read%20of%20athanasius%2C%20theodoret%22&f=false
„We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.“
— John Henry Newman
Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.
„Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.“
— John Henry Newman
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851), Lecture IX
„To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.“
— John Henry Newman
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 7.
„Growth is the only evidence of life.“
— John Henry Newman
Apologia pro Vita Sua http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html (1864).
„A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.“
— John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University (1873), Discourse VIII, pt. 10.
„Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.“
— John Henry Newman
The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. I (1866).
„O my brethren, O kind and affectionate hearts, O loving friends, should you know any one whose lot it has been, by writing or by word of mouth, in some degree to help you thus to act; if he has ever told you what you knew about yourselves, or what you did not know; has read to you your wants or feelings, and comforted you by the very reading; has made you feel that there was a higher life than this daily one, and a brighter world than that you see; or encouraged you, or sobered you, or opened a way to the inquiring, or soothed the perplexed; if what he has said or done has ever made you take interest in him, and feel well inclined towards him; remember such a one in time to come, though you hear him not, and pray for him, that in all things he may know God's will, and at all times he may be ready to fulfil it.“
— John Henry Newman
Sermon 26: 'The Parting of Friends' http://www.newmanreader.org/works/subjects/sermon26.html (sermon preached on Monday, 25 September, 1843.).
„Surely, there is at this day a confederacy of evil, marshalling its hosts from all parts of the world, organizing itself, taking its measures, enclosing the Church of CHRIST as in a net, and preparing the way for a general apostasy from it. Whether this very apostasy is to give birth to Antichrist, or whether he is still to be delayed, we cannot know; but at any rate this apostasy, and all its tokens, and instruments, are of the Evil One and savour of death. Far be it from any of us to be of those simple ones, who are taken in that snare which is circling around us! Far be it from us to be seduced with the fair promises in which Satan is sure to hide his poison! Do you think he is so unskilful in his craft, as to ask you openly and plainly to join him in his warfare against the Truth? No; he offers you baits to tempt you. He promises you civil liberty; he promises you equality; he promises you trade and wealth; he promises you a remission of taxes; he promises you reform. This is the way in which he conceals from you the kind of work to which he is putting you; he tempts you to rail against your rulers and superiors; he does so himself, and induces you to imitate him; or he promises you illumination, he offers you knowledge, science, philosophy, enlargement of mind. He scoffs at times gone by; he scoffs at every institution which reveres them. He prompts you what to say, and then listens to you, and praises you, and encourages you. He bids you mount aloft. He shows you how to become as gods. Then he laughs and jokes with you, and gets intimate with you; he takes your hand, and gets his fingers between yours, and grasps them, and then you are his.“
— John Henry Newman
Tract 83 http://anglicanhistory.org/tracts/tract83.html (29 June 1838).
