Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge

By Thomas K. Carr

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788503049
• ISBN13: 9780788503047
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"