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Title: 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bloss, William Escott
Subjects: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890 Great Britain -- Church history 19th century
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. In June, 1817, he entered Trinity College, Oxford,where in course of time he became acquainted withthe Broad Church Party. In the University atmo-sphere there came the widening of his mental outlookwhich resulted in the gradual weakening of hisCalvinistic beliefs. The social life of the Universityaffected his stern Puritanism, but his shy reservednature rendered him immune from the temptationsto which many young undergraduates are exposed.Newman had arrived at a critical period of his life.The great truths which he had accepted on authoritywere being woven into his experience, and trans-muted into personal convictions. It was a timeof doubt and perplexity, of awkward questions, andserious dilhculties. It was a time when he at-tempted to justify his faith at the bar of reason—an attempt which was attended with the loss ofsome of the doctrines peculiar to the EvangelicalParty, which he had accepted in his earlier years.In this frame of mind he was susceptible to the* Apologia, p. 7.
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JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 73 influences of the new school of Liberal theologianswhich held an important place in the University. The philosophy of Locke, with which Newmanbecame familiar in 1818, helped to turn his mind inthis direction. John Locke (1632-1704) has beendescribed as the father of English empiricalphilosophy, but in the main his arguments followedthe older lines of Demonstrative Rationalism. Allcreation bears witness to God, the evidence of Hispower and wisdom is present in the things that areseen, and he who reverently reads the book ofNature cannot fail to discover the God of Nature.Thus far he is in accord with the Theists of the olderRationalistic School. But elsewhere he introducesanother element, and speaks of the certainty ofour intuitive knowledge. We can never receivefor a truth anything that is directly contrary toour own clear and distinct knowledge ; * in otherwords, our knowledge of ourselves and our ownpowers, are factors which must be taken intoconsideration side

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