An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
"An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent" by John Henry Newman is a philosophical work completed in 1870. Taking twenty years to write, Newman challenges the idea that scientific standards of evidence should govern religious faith. He argues that formal logic fails in real-life decision-making and introduces the "illative sense"—a faculty that weighs evidence from multiple sources to reach belief. The work defends faith as rational, distinguishing between notional and
real assent, and explores how we can legitimately believe what we cannot fully understand or prove. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890 |
|---|---|
| Title | An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_of_Assent |
| Credits |
Delphine Lettau, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at <www.pgdp.net/>. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 45.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity |
| Subject | Theism |
| Subject | Faith |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 34022 |
| Release Date | Oct 1, 2010 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 4, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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