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John Henry Newman's Grammar of Assent: Faith, Reason, and CertitudeMondays, January 12-March 16
6:00-8:00 p.m. St. Gregory the Great, Msgr. Klasen Building. 1609 W Gregory St with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence) |
Newly-named Doctor of the Church St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a prolific writer of occasional works addressing current issues, controversies, and questions. The single exception to this was his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, a work on which he labored, off and on, for nearly twenty years and which forms his final, mature statement on the question that had preoccupied him all of his adult life, the question of religious faith and whether such faith can be justified to reasonable people in a reasonable way.
Newman found the accounts of faith and reason in his time to be too narrow and woefully inadequate. Drawing on the full breadth of human experience, he develops an approach to human knowledge and our certainty about our knowledge that illuminates both the nature of faith and the inner workings of the human mind.
Required Texts
An Essay in the Aid of A Grammar of Assent (Notre Dame Press, 1992) ISBN: 9780268010003.
Newman found the accounts of faith and reason in his time to be too narrow and woefully inadequate. Drawing on the full breadth of human experience, he develops an approach to human knowledge and our certainty about our knowledge that illuminates both the nature of faith and the inner workings of the human mind.
Required Texts
An Essay in the Aid of A Grammar of Assent (Notre Dame Press, 1992) ISBN: 9780268010003.
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$100 suggested donation.* Register by filling out the form below. Contact Mark Franzen with any questions.
*You can pay online or bring a check or cash to the class. Make checks payable to Mary, Mother of God Parish with "St. Gregory's Hall" in the memo line. All donations are used to cover program and staff-related expenses of St. Gregory's Hall. No funds are used for general Parish operating expenses. About the teacher
Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM, is a member of the Order of the Friars Minor. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and his work in ministry has led him to the American Southwest, working with Pueblo and Hispanic villages, the Canadian Arctic, working in the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay, and Guatemala, teaching and providing spiritual direction at a minor seminary run by the Benedictine monks near the city of Quetzaltenango. In 2000 he returned to the U.S. and began ten years in Chicago, many of which were spent at St. Peter’s in the Loop. He has taught numerous adult education courses at the Newberry Library and at area parishes.
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