Frases de John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
Fecha de nacimiento: 21. Febrero 1801
Fecha de muerte: 11. Agosto 1890
John Henry Newman, C.O. fue un presbítero anglicano convertido al catolicismo en 1845, más tarde fue elevado a la dignidad de cardenal por el papa León XIII y beatificado en 2010 en una ceremonía que presidió el Papa Benedicto XVI en el Reino Unido. En su juventud fue una importante figura del Movimiento de Oxford, el cual aspiraba a que la Iglesia de Inglaterra volviera a sus raíces católicas. Sus estudios le llevaron a convertirse a la fe de la Iglesia Católica. Durante ambos períodos, tanto como anglicano como católico, Newman escribió importantes libros, entre ellos Vía Media, Ensayo sobre el Desarrollo de la Doctrina Cristiana, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, y Grammar of Assent. Sus restos se encuentran actualmente enterrados en el pequeño cementerio católico de Rednal, cerca de Birmingham, pero está previsto que sean inhumados de nuevo y trasladados al Oratorio de Birmingham.
Frases John Henry Newman
„Traté de escuchar la voz de Dios y trepé al campanario más alto, pero Dios declaró: "Desciende otra vez, habito entre la gente.“
Original: (en) I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Fuente: https://books.google.es/books?id=q2j-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55&dq=false Getting to Know God's Voice: Discover the Holy Spirit in Your Everyday Life. Autor Jenny Randle. Harvest House Publishers, 2020. ISBN 9780736981187. Página 55.
„Se les dice a los cristianos, no solamente que no se depriman ante sus sufrimientos sino que se alegren. Más aún, que se alegren no sólo porque la aflicción sea una disciplina que conduce a un bien futuro, sino porque es un privilegio presente, el privilegio de ser hechos semejantes a Cristo“
1829, Sermones no publicados, Vol II, 26, p.197
„La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Parecería increíble que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religión terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por superstición, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invención, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios.“
Cuatro sermones sobre el Anticristo: La idea patrística del Anticristo en cuatro sermones
Variante: La llamaron Libertad, y literalmente la adoraron como a una divinidad. Parecería increíble que aquellos mismos hombres que se desembarazaron de toda religión terminasen adorando, en son de burla o por superstición, una nueva e insensata deidad de su invención, si no fuese porque los sucesos son tan recientes y notorios. Luego de abjurar de nuestro Señor y Salvador
„The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief.“
— John Henry Newman, libro Apologia Pro Vita Sua
To Richard Hurrell Froude, August 23, 1835.
Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church, 1890, Anne Mozley, ed., Longmans’s Green & Co., London, New York, Volume 2, p. 113. http://books.google.com/books?id=uak8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA113&dq=%22the+more+i+read+of+athanasius,+theodoret%22&hl=en&ei=CeBlTqH1K4m2sQL91pm3Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22the%20more%20i%20read%20of%20athanasius%2C%20theodoret%22&f=false
Contexto: The more I read of Athanasius, Theodoret, etc, the more I see that the ancients did make the Scriptures the basis of their belief. The only question is, would they have done so in another point besides the θεολογία (theology), etc, which happened in the early ages to be in discussion? I incline to say the Creed is the faith necessary to salvation, as well as to Church communion, and to maintain that Scripture, according to the Fathers, is the authentic record and document of this faith.
It surely is reasonable that 'necessary to salvation' should apply to the Baptismal Creed: 'In the name of,' etc (vid. He who believeth etc.). Now the Apostles' Creed is nothing but this; for the Holy Catholic Church, etc [in it] are but the medium through which God comes to us. Now this θεολογία, I say, the Fathers do certainly rest on Scripture, as upon two tables of stone. I am surprised more and more to see how entirely they fall into Hawkins’s theory even in set words, that Scripture proves and the Church teaches. http://books.google.com/books?id=JbwJVBOvECwC&pg=PA66&dq=%22that+the+sacred+text+was+never+intended+to+teach+doctrine,+but+only+to+prove+it%22&hl=en&ei=k-RlTq__FOStsQKOwrCzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22that%20the%20sacred%20text%20was%20never%20intended%20to%20teach%20doctrine%2C%20but%20only%20to%20prove%20it%22&f=false
I believe it would be extremely difficult to show that tradition is ever considered by them (in matters of faith) more than interpretative of Scripture. It seems that when a heresy rose they said at once ‘That is not according to the Church's teaching,’ i. e. they decided it by the praejudicium [N. B. prescription] of authority.
Again, when they met together in council, they brought the witness of tradition as a matter of fact, but when they discussed the matter in council, cleared their views, etc., proved their power, they always went to Scripture alone. They never said 'It must be so and so, because St. Cyrian says this, St. Clement explains in his third book of the "Paedagogue," etc.' and with reason; for the Fathers are a witness only as one voice, not in individual instances, or, much less, isolated passages, but every word of Scripture is inspired and available.
„We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.“
Letter to Mrs William Froude, 27 June 1848.
„Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.“
Lecture IX
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)
„To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.“
Variante: In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Fuente: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 7.
„Growth is the only evidence of life.“
Apologia pro Vita Sua http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html (1864).
„A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.“
Discourse VIII, pt. 10.
The Idea of a University (1873)
„To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.“
Introduction, Part 5.
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
„After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, "Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists."“
Lecture I, Section 1.
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)
„Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.“
A Martyr Convert http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse170.html, st. 3 (1856). Also in Callista Chapter 36 http://www.newmanreader.org/works/callista/chapter36.html (1855).
„It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.“
The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. III (1866).
