John Henry Newman and the imagination / by Bernard Dive.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dive, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890.

Newman, John Henry.

Imagination--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018.

Summary:

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative 'master vision' which 'supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace'. All his life, Newman reflected on this 'master vision'. His reflections on the moral imagination developed out of his understanding of practical wisdom, as characterized by Aristotle - the wisdom that 'the good man' has in living a good life. For Newman, the vision at the core of religion completes and perfects the intuitions of the conscience. John Henry Newman and the Imagination looks at how Newman's understanding of the moral and visionary imagination developed over the course of his life; and it relates his ideas about the imagination to his portrayals of religious experience, and vision, in his novels and poetry.

Contents:

Personal visions: the 1830s

Faith, practical perception, and phronesis

A work to do in England

The impression of Christ

The pursuit of truth

The virtue of faith and the virtues of civilization: the 1840s and 1850s

The virtue of faith

Faith and civilization

Real visions: the 1860s and 1870s

The imagination and the metropolitan intellect

Ex Umbris Et Imaginibus In Veritatem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780567692641

0567692647

9780567005885

0567005887

9780567659484

0567659488

9780567245618

0567245616

OCLC:

1029809037