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This volume considers the impact of Newman's Essay on Development (1845) on Roman Catholicism of the time immediately after his conversion.
List of contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: International Contexts
- 1: Prisms of Expectation: Newman's Conversion, Doctrinal Development, and Rome
- 2: Early reactions to the Essay on Development outside of Rome
- Part II: Early Maneuverings
- 3: Promise and Peril: Newman in Rome Part One
- 4: Promise and Peril in Rome Part Two: A Foray into the Theological Scene in Rome
- 5: Promise and Peril in Rome Part Three: Newman's Contacts and Activities in Rome
- Part III: Development's Vindication
- 6: Perrone's Reception of the Essay on Development: The 'Newman-Perrone Paper'
- 7: After the Newman-Perrone Exchange
- Conclusion: Newman's Theory and the Balance of Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholic Thought
- Bibliography
About the author
C. Michael Shea completed his doctorate in Historical Theology at Saint Louis University in 2013, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Seton Hall University.
Summary
This volume considers the impact of Newman's Essay on Development (1845) on Roman Catholicism of the time immediately after his conversion.
Additional text
This book is best suited for the graduate classroom and beyond, though the advanced undergraduate with adequate knowledge of Newman's theory of doctrinal development and its reception history would find this work useful. Shea's work is notably a reappraisal of a long-held narrative of the reception of Newman's Essay on Development, which is one of the most influential theology works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Shea's work, most importantly, demonstrates that Newman's theory of doctrinal development gained traction much earlier than the Second Vatican Council. Because of this, Newman scholars and historical theologians interested in nineteenth-century European reception history should be acquainted with Shea's thesis.
