John Henry Newman’s Changing Attitude to Infallibility Essay -- Religio

Examine John Henry Newmans changing attitude to Infallibility, between the end of Vatican 1 in 1870 and Gladstones attack in 1875. In this essay I propose to analyse Newmans attitude to Infallibility during the period outlined above. I leave behind examine his letters in particular to note the range of correspondents and the approaches taken. I will attempt to see a pattern in carnal knowledge to his beliefs expressed to mere enquirers writing to him, to national and professional writers seeking information or debating points and to family and friends in connection with the doctrine of Infallibility. Over this five-year period I will deduce from mainly primary sources, his views expressed on Infallibility and his developed reasoning and then present conclusions.Firstly a short historical background to straightlaced Britain will set the context. Mid-Victorian Britain saw political restore as a main agenda. There was an established order of churches, characterised by denomination but more telling, by social class, and a defined place in society. The plight of the poor and the devastating effects of industrialisation were not uppermost in the churchs role. These views were being challenged with an increasing secularisation of society, by movements set up to reform and give more people a voice in government, and oppugn the relevance of the church. The church played a role in e.g. the Christian Socialist Movement, set up as much to control and limit reform as it was to assist the poor. This was a time of expansion by the Catholic Church, since the re-establishment of the hierarch in 1850. Popular liberal attitudes questioned the loyalty of Catholics to the state and since the 1850s newspapers and periodicals characterised this view as ... ...ring 1982), pp. 8688.Rahner, K. A Critique of Hans Kung. Homiletic and Pastoral Review 71, May 1971, pp.10 26.Schatz, K. Papal Supremacy From its Origins to the Present. Collegeville, MN The Liturgical Press, 1996, pp.151-162.Strange, Roderick. John Henry Newman A Mind Alive. London Darton, Longman and Todd, 2008.Sugg, J. ed. A Packet of Letters a selection of correspondence of John Henry Newman. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1983.Tierney, B. Origins of Papal infallibility 1150 1350. (Studies in the History of Christian notion).Leiden EJ Brill, 1972.Ward, W. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival. London Longmans Green andCo.1893, p.274. Accessed 9 March 2014 https//archive.org/details/riwilliamgeorgeward.Wolfe, J. Religion in Victorian Britain Culture and Empire. Manchester The Open University Press, 1997.