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Format:
Paperback
216 pp.
150 mm x 226 mm

ISBN-13:
9780788503047

Publication date:
December 1996

Imprint: OUP US

Newman and Gadamer

Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge

Thomas K. Carr

Series : AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series, 10

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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