Newman

  • Dogma: Development or Detention?

    What is dogma? Frequently, in modernity one will hear people mocking the idea of dogma: seen as some arbitrary rule that detains free intellectual pursuit. Dogma is also often seen as something exclusively religiousโ€”but this seems dubious.โ€‚From my understanding a dogma properly speaking is something that usually comes after deliberation of some sort, as a…

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  • John Henry Newman in Four Books

    It has often been suggested, and not without ample reason and evidence, that the importance of a great thinker never finds itself as potently realized during the thinker’s own lifetime. The significance of truly great thoughts, that is, take not only decades but centuries to unfold. Thus, when it is claimed that John Henry Newman…

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