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FROM CALVINIST TO CARDINAL Montreat College October 9 -- November 13, 2002
This adult education (MCCALL Elderhostel Institute) course is scheduled for eight consecutive two hour sessions 0930--1130 hours on Wednesdays October - November 2002 at Montreat College's In The Oaks Campus in Black Mountain, NC. SYNOPSIS: John Henry Newman (1801 -1890) grew slowly into one of England's most creative yet orthodox Christian thinkers. He was teacher, hymnist, preacher, spiritual guide and friend, also poet, historian and philosopher. His was a large, happy family: low-church Anglican and London middle class. At age 15 he had a profound conversion under Calvinist influence. Newman became and remained for 75 years an ardent, searching Christian He co-led the Oxford Movement which rejuvenated the Church of England. In mid-life he became a Roman Catholic and in old age a Cardinal. His works have inspired persons of many faiths and cultures to seek God in and through their consciences. We begin with Newman's poetry, LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT and THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS (hearing parts of Edward Elgar's oratorio), then discuss Newman's two novels, LOSS AND GAIN and CALLISTA. We move from his sermons and letters into more difficult masterpieces, including APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY and A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT. -OOO- TPK 04/19/2002
(2) Sketch of the twelve segments of the course Mary and Patrick Killough will teach an introductory adult education course on Newman for six weeks (Monday 0930-1130) in October-November 2002. Classes meet on the newly opened second campus of Montreat College in the city of Black Mountain, North Carolina.JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801 - 1890) Each of the six sessions is divided into two 50 minute segments divided
by a 20 minute break. The 12 segments will be covered as followed. Later
revision is possible.
1.a (Patrick): Course Contents:goals and overview.Twelve Presentations --Newman 1801-1890: rapid sketch. --Young Newman--to age 15. Born February 21, 1801 in London. Parents: John Newman and Jemima Fourdrinier. A Bible-reading Anglican, rising middle class family. --Ealing School ( May 1808 - August 1816) --Conclude with Joyce Sugg videotape to 1815. break 1.b (Mary) CALLISTA: A TALE OF THE THIRD CENTURY.
A Greek Pagan becomes a Christian martyr. THEMES: early church, conscience,
conversion, church, scripture.
2.a (Patrick) Newman’s First Conversion - -To Evangelical Christianity: August - December 1816. At Ealing School. Through Rev. Walter Mayers. JHN discovers early Church Fathers. THEMES: Conversion meant reversion to earliest personal insights, God’s voice echoes in conscience, religion must be dogmatic, i.e. truth or falsiity matters. break 2.b (Mary) Newman’s Circle of Female Relatives and Friends --Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, Three Sisters.
3.a (Patrick) Newman’s First Novel LOSS AND GAIN (1848) --The story of a young Oxford man’s plodding conversion from Church of England to Roman Catholicism between 1840 and 1846. break 3.b (Patrick) Newman 1817-1864 --Introduced by Joyce Sugg videotape. --Oxford University: Trinity College. Oriel College Mentors and Friends:
Pusey, Whatley, Keble, Froude. Ordained Anglican clergyman. Mediterranean
Journey. “Lead, Kindly Light.” Oxford Movement. Tracts for the Times. “Catholicizing”
Tract # 90 Feb,1841) was rejected by 12 Anglican bishops. October 1845
he becomes Roman Catholic. 1864: Kingley’s accusation of lying provokes
APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA.
4.a (Patrick) Newman 1864-1890. --Introduced by Joyce Suggs Videotape. Remainder of Life to 1890. --JHN the educator: Anglican days: catechism. Catholic University of Ireland. Rector of The Catholic University of Dublin (1851 - 1858). Created, oversaw Oratory Boarding School for boys in Edgbaston, Birmingham. break 4.b (Patrick) Educational Writings. --THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY (1854);
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.a. (Mary) "The Dream of Gerontius" --An older Catholic man dies, is carried by his guardian angel to God’s throne, is judged, awaits eternal union with God in a purifying lake. break 5.b.. (Patrick) JHN: A Few Central Insights Ever Enlarging Themselves and Rising Ever Higher --ARIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY(1832) --AN ESSAY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE (1845) --APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA (1864) --A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT (1870)
6.a (Patrick)
--The Oratorian Communities
6..b. (Mary) Summing Up and Review. Q& A. ------------------------------------- Swannanoa, NC 9/4/2002
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