John Henry Newman on Truth and Its Counterfeits

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A Guide for Our Times

Reinhard Hütter

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English

The Catholic University of America Press
30 March 2020

Religion: general; Christianity; Christian theology

Series: Sacra Doctrina

Reinhard Hütter’s main thesis in this third volume of the Sacra Doctrina series is that John Henry Newman, in his own context of the nineteenth century, a century far from being a foreign one to our own, faced the same challenges as we do today; the problems then and now differ in degree, not in kind. Hence, Newman’s engagement with these problems offers us a prescient and indeed prophetic diagnosis of what these problems or errors, if not corrected, will lead to—consequences which have more or less come to pass—and, furthermore, an alternative way which is at once thoroughly Catholic and holds contemporary relevance.

The introduction offers a survey of Newman’s life and works and each of the subsequent four chapters addresses one significant aspect of Christianity that is not only contested or rejected by secular unbelief, but also has a counterfeit for which not only Christians, but even Catholics have fallen. The counterfeit of conscience is the “conscience” of the sovereign subject (Ch. 1); the counterfeit of faith is the “faith” of one who does not submit to the living authority through which God communicates but rather adheres to the principle of private judgment in matters of revealed religion(Ch.2); the counterfeit of doctrinal development is twofold: (i) paying lip service to development while only selectively accepting its consequences on the grounds of a specious antiquarianism and (ii) invoking development theory to justify all sorts of contemporary changes according to the present Zeitgeist (Ch. 3). Finally, the counterfeit of the university are all those “universities” whose end is not to educate and thereby to perfect the intellect, but rather to feed more efficiently the empire of desire that is informed by the techno-consumerism of today (Ch. 4). John Henry Newman on Truth and its Counterfeits concludes with an epilogue on Hütter’s journey to Catholicism.

By: Reinhard Hütter
Imprint: The Catholic University of America Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780813232324
ISBN 10: 0813232325
Series: Sacra Doctrina
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 March 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reinhard Hütter is ordinary professor of fundamental and dogmatic theology at The Catholic University of America and the author of seven previous books, including Bound for Beatitude and Aquinas on Transubstantiation (both CUA Press).

Reviews for John Henry Newman on Truth and Its Counterfeits: A Guide for Our Times

The book's main contribution is in the application of Newman's thought to contemporary problems, and to that portion of Newman studies that seeks to bring Newman into a wider theological discourse. --Andrew Meszaros, author of The Prophetic Church: History and Doctrinal Development in John Henry Newman and Yves Congar