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John Henry Newman, “The Young Rector”, portrayed in his early fifties, when he came to Ireland, by Magar.
liberal, as opposed to utilitarian,
navigated the tensions and paradoxes
The Irish theologian George Tyrrell,
education is captured in the title of his
involved in this juxtaposition. He was
reflecting on Newman’s being made a
fifth discourse “Knowledge its own End”.
a classic ‘both-and’ thinker whose first
cardinal by Leo XIII, expressed the fear that
The work as a whole has been described
sermon in University Church refuted the
the eminence of his new position might
as a response to Tertullian’s question:
assumption “that, to be religious, you must
distract from the distinctiveness of his
“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”
be ignorant and to be intellectual, you must
thought. There could be no more salutary
In fact, Newman understood and skillfully
be unbelieving”.
thought to keep in mind as we contemplate UCD ConneCtions alUmni magazine
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