Newman and Gadamer
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- ISBN 9780788503047
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 229 x 164mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 1996
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
