Research Catalog

Title

Newman and Gadamer : toward a hermeneutics of religious knowledge / by Thomas K. Carr.

Author

Carr, Thomas K., 1962-

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, ©1996.

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Details

Description

195, [8] pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This volume is a work of comparison, criticism, and construction. The author examines the religious epistemology of John Henry Newman alongside the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Both writers cover a surprising amount of common ground ; they make similar claims ; and they fall into similar errors. A critical examination of four of Newman's leading ideas - first principles, antecedent probability, doctrinal development, and the illative sense - are compared with such Gadamerian themes as self-understanding, Bildung, projection, tradition and the fusion of horizons. The author concludes with a constructive proposal that applies a Newman-Gadamer synthesis to questions about a knowledge of God."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Reflection and theory in the study of religion ; no. 10

Uniform Title

Reflection and theory in the study of religion ; no. 10.

Alternative Title

Newman & Gadamer

Subject

• Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002
• Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890
• Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg
• Newman, John Henry
• God > Knowableness
• Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
• God > Knowableness
• Religionsphilosophie
• Hermeneutik
• Hermeneutiek
• Godskennis
• Filosofia contemporânea
• Filosofia moderna
• Hermenêutica

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-[113]).

Contents

Preview: In Search of a Bridge -- Introducing Gadamer: Reconstructing the Question of Aesthetics. Judgments of Taste. Bildung and Self-Understanding -- Introducing Gadamer: Reconstructing the Question of Hermeneutics. Seeing, Projecting and Fusing. Artistic Mimesis -- Introducing Gadamer: Gadamer and the Question of Relativism. Art, Play and Truth. Prejudice and Tradition -- Part One: Newman's Philosophical Background. Aristotle. Joseph Butler. Alexandrian Platonism. Locke and British Empiricism. Newman and the Germans -- Part Two: Toward a Newman-Gadamer Correspondence. First Principles. Antecedent Probabilities. Theory of Development. The Illative Sense -- Part Three: Newman and the Problem of Authority. Authority Defined.

ISBN

• 0788503030
• 9780788503030
• 0788503049
• 9780788503047

LCCN

96028988

OCLC

• ocm35049598
• 35049598
• SCSB-2107193

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library