Truth and Equivocation
Liguori's Moral Theology and Newman's Apologia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3335279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josef L Altholz (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-84 |
| Publication date | 1975-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3165100 |
| OpenAlex | W2126733124 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Newman's Apologia pro vita sua is remembered as a work of literature, a lasting monument of religious autobiography. Yet it was also a work of religious controversy, perhaps the most ephemeral of literary genres. Indeed, it was primarily a work of controversy; Newman, who almost never wrote except for an occasion, had called upon autobiography as the ultimate debating technique in a dispute which had come to center upon the personal honesty of one of the disputants. Truthfulness was pressed into service in an argument which, after all, was about "truth, for its own sake", as "a virtue with the Roman clergy." The artfulness of Newman's candour was successful in its purpose; and in the triumphant vindication of his personal integrity, the original controversy was virtually obliterated, leaving behind a work of autobiographical art
Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Biography · Epistemology · Equivocation · Honesty · Literature · Theology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |