Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge

Thomas K. Carr

Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
2 January 1996
Pages
216
ISBN
9780788503047

Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge

Thomas K. Carr

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Thomas K. Carr examines the religious epistemology of John Henry Newman alongside the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The two writers are found to cover a surprising amount of common ground: They make similar claims, and they fall into similar errors. A critical examination of four of Newman’s leading ideas - first principles, antecedent probability, doctrinal development, and the illative sense - are compared with such Gadamerian themes as self-understanding, Bildung, projection, tradition, and the fusion of horizons. Carr concludes with a constructive proposal that applies a Newman-Gadamer synthesis to questions about knowledge of God.

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