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	Newman Reader - Grammar of Assent - Chapter 7
		But this is only saying that there are genuine assents, and assents that ultimately become not genuine; and again, that there is an assent which is not a virtual certitude, and is lost in the attempt to make it certitude.
		Assent is an act of the mind, congenial to its nature; and it, as other acts, may be made both when it ought to be made, and when it ought not.
		An assent, indeed, is ever an assent; but given assents may be strong or weak, deliberate or impulsive, lasting or ephemeral.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/grammar/chapter7.html (7700 words)

	Newman Reader - Grammar of Assent
		An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent
		Apprehension and Assent in the matter of Religion
		Inference and Assent in the matter of Religion
	www.newmanreader.org /works/grammar/index.html (89 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Belief
		A not inconsiderable part of the "Grammar of Assent" is concerned with this subject, though hardly dealing with the problem on the foregoing lines.
		Acts of assent on such authority are known as acts of faith and, theologically speaking, connote the assistance of grace.
		With regard to the nature of this authority upon which such supernatural truths are assented to in faith, it is sufficient to indicate that God's knowledge is infinite and His veracity absolute.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02408b.htm (2585 words)

	§13. His later works. XII. The Oxford Movement. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English ...
		But, later books were, at least at the time of their publication, more generally influential, notably The Scope and Nature of University Education (1852), The Grammar of Assent (1870) and perhaps, also, the earlier Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845).
		The Grammar of Assent carried the argument of probability, the corner-stone of his master Butler, on to new ground.
		The argument was, to him, “an accumulation of probabilities,” and he reached these by a study of the mental processes which lead to apprehension and assent.
	www.bartleby.com /222/1213.html (1077 words)

	§17. Frederick Denison Maurice; Newman’s "Grammar of Assent;" William George Ward. I. Philosophers. Vol. 14. ...
		Frederick Denison Maurice; Newman’s "Grammar of Assent;" William George Ward.
		Religious philosophy in England was stimulated and advanced by the work of three men all born in the year 1805.
		John Henry Newman 10 was still less of a philosopher, though his Grammar of Assent propounds a theory of the nature and grounds of belief.
	www.bartleby.com /224/0117.html (326 words)

	GALILEO: Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition): Text
		As above defined, grammar is a body of statements of fact-a `science'; but a large portion of it may be viewed as consisting of rules for practice, and so as forming an `art'.
		(1813) 164 Grammar is nothing else but rules and observations drawn from the common speech of mankind in their several languages.
		general, philosophical or universal grammar: the science which analyses those distinctions in thought which it is the purpose of grammatical forms more or less completely to render in expression, and which aims to furnish a scheme of classification capable of including all the grammatical categories recognized in actual languages.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /nhilton/hc/grammar.html (2169 words)

	Stanley L. Jaki
		There are indeed not a few phrases in the that may appear to be graphic endorsements of sheer empiricism which is the very opposite to what is needed for what St. Paul called in the Romans (12:1) a reasoned worship of God.
		Newman states in the that although many books had been written on the subject of assent, he made no special study of them during all that time when the was being written and rewritten, with intermissions of course.
		The was meant to be an account of Newman's way, emphatically of , of giving to the challenge of truth, natural and supernatural, the kind of firm and irrevocable reply which he called assent.
	www.ewtn.com /library/THEOLOGY/FR89101.htm (4031 words)

	Newman Reader - Grammar of Assent - Chapter 5
		A dogma is a proposition; it stands for a notion or for a thing; and to believe it is to give the assent of the mind to it, as it stands for the one or for the other.
		This being what Theists mean when they speak of {102} God, their assent to this truth admits without difficulty of being what I have called a notional assent.
		The notion and the reality assented-to are represented by one and the same proposition, but serve as distinct interpretations of it.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/grammar/chapter5-1.html (3578 words)

	Notes for the study of Newman’s Essay in aid of a grammar of assent
		The main problem addressed by Newman in his Essay in aid of a grammar of assent (GA) is the necessity to restore rational cogency to apologetics by highlighting the deep reasonableness of professing the Christian faith.
		He then argues that if the proposition to which the assent is given is absolutely true as the reflex act pronounces it to be, the assent becomes a perception, and the conviction a certitude; the proposition becomes a certitude, and to assent to it becomes to know.
		where he elaborates on the connection between assent and certitude, and in so doing he analyses the process of inference that allows the human mind to move from one to the other, as well as the illative sense that constitutes the yardstick against which the deliverances of the inferential process have to be assessed.
	www.op.org /steinkerchner/comps/notes/newman.html (5970 words)

	"Nichols on God": Extracts from A Grammar of Consent by Fr Aidan Nichols - Part 1
		As grammar derives the laws of language from everyday use, so a grammar of assent to the propositions of religion will try to show that religious thought is intimately related to the thought processes of everyday life.
		The grammar is in one sense unitary: it sees Newman's exposition as a substantially correct account of the nature and limits of reason in regard to religion.
		In another sense, however, the grammar is as manifold as the writers it describes and the readers into whose hands it may fall.
	www.christendom-awake.org /pages/anichols/grammar1.htm (8917 words)

	"Nichols on God": Extracts from A Grammar of Consent by Fr Aidan Nichols - Part 2
		In the succeeding chapters, the reader will be asked to exercise his or her illative sense on the various experiential materials, relevant to the theistic case, that the study of now one, now another, writer in the tradition highlights.
		Newman sets out by distinguishing assent, which is unconditional and personal, from inference, which is a logical procedure bound for the truth-value of its conclusions to the validity of the premises it assumes.
		Their personal assent cannot be ours, yet the convergence of areas in which such men have come to make theistic assent provides us within an infinitely richer sense of the real in coming to our own judgment in the matter of belief in God.
	www.christendom-awake.org /pages/anichols/grammar2.htm (10562 words)

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		Newman distinguished between "notional" assent, an intellectual assent to a proposition, and what he called "real" assent, assent of the whole person: the heart as well as the head.
		Literature can create "real assent" in us, or, in the words we now use, help us cultivate our EQ as well our IQ, the right as well as the left side of our brain.
		If our goal is the education of the whole person, we need to recall that, as Newman put it in his Grammar of Assent, "the heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E324/newman.html (655 words)

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		A number of his essays on the role of the University, a role that he saw as one of a training for the mind's faculties rather than the imposition of particular knowledge upon it, later appeared as The Idea of a University Defined (1873).
		The Apologia and An Essay in Aid of the Grammar of Assent, as well as the second volume of poetry, had also appeared by the time of Newman's inauguration as cardinal-deacon of St George in Velabro.
		As Newman argues in the Grammar of Assent, certainty does not reside in logic alone.
	www.cs.utah.edu /~goller/books/NEWMAN/BIOG.TXT (456 words)

	Faith and Reason [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Moreover, this assent, as an act of will, can be meritorious for the believer, even though it also always involves the assistance of God's grace.
		In the final analysis, faith's assent is made not by a deduction from reason, but by the "credit of the proposer, as coming from God, in some extraordinary way of communication." Thus Locke's understands faith as a probable consent.
		In his Grammar of Assent, Newman argued that one assents to God on the basis of one's experience and principles.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/faith-re.htm (14672 words)

	International Catholic University: 35.4
		There is from the outset a negative attitude toward the imperialism of abstract reason in the philosophers.
		This is a question which accompanies Newman throughout his life, and culminates in the late book, Grammar of Assent.
		It is not too much to say that one of Newman's chief aims was to defend the reasonableness of the faith of the simple.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c03504.htm (674 words)

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		A possible solution to this problem is supplied by Newman in his principal philosophical work, A Grammar of Assent, which constitutes his most important contribution to philosophical debate.
		The Grammar of Assent has become a classical text for students of the philosophy of peligion.
		A Grammar of Assent has also drawn much critical attention due to Newman’s introduction of the idea of Illative sense.
	www.ucd.ie /jhnewman/works/philosophy.htm (931 words)

	Touchstone Archives: The Cardinal & the Chemist
		Part of the cultural legacy of the scientific age in which we live is the widespread assumption that doubt, uncertainty, and tentativeness are cognitive ideals, whereas belief, certainty, and commitment are to be looked upon with suspicion.
		Since knowledge is commonly thought to be limited to what can be clearly specified and objectively demonstrated, it is considered intellectually irresponsible to hold any belief or give assent to any truth without being able to provide clear and explicit grounds for doing so.
		Rather, intelligence is guided towards the act of assent by an anticipatory and informal illative sense, which operates in a deeply personal way, beyond any technical rules.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=15-06-060-b (1488 words)

	Newman and the Theology of Marius (Chapter 23)
		The notion that assent or belief is arrived at by "the whole man--"mind, feelings, imagination, etc.--is evident throughout Newman's career.
		However, it was in the Grammar of Assent, now little more than a decade old, that Newman had developed at length the "personal" and "subjective" quality of the apprehension of truth.
		The echoes of thought and phrasing from the Grammar are too full to be accidental or casual, and they extend well beyond the role of will and personality in the act of faith.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/books/delaura/23.html (3406 words)

	NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		But while the doctrine is above reason, it is not contrary thereto; and, as Dr. Newman observes in his Grammar of Assent, v.
		He does not use these illustrations as presenting anything analogous to the union of the three Persons in the Godhead, but as dimly illustrative of it.
		He declares his belief in the Athanasian doctrine, which, as Dr. Newman observes (Grammar of Assent, v.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf101.vi.XIII.XI.html (716 words)

	Truth Today
		John Henry Newman devoted a major portion of his life to a study of the human ability to arrive at truth.
		He gave an account of his thinking and of his resulting convictions in An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent.
		As we listened to the debates and continue to be exposed to political commercials we may be tempted to wonder if there is any objective truth within election 2000.
	www.ndc.edu /mccloskey_newman/truth.htm (683 words)

	E5311, Victor J. Vitanza, Notes #8, Foundations of Rhetoric & Composition
		Negation in general is the culprit, even as it is found in rigidified and rerigidified forms in Aristotelian or Neo-Aristotelian rhetorics!) But let us move on to an exposition and a clarification of how WB himself would want to be read, if it is possible for me to give such an account.
		WB is interested in being an advocate for "good rhetoric," which he defines as "the art of discovering good reasons, finding what really warrants assent because any reasonable person ought to be persuaded by what has been said" (xiv).
		Remember he writes that "good rhetoric" is "the art of discovering good reasons, finding what really warrants assent because any reasonable person ought to be persuaded by what has been said" (xiv).
	www.uta.edu /english/rcct/E5311/notes8.html (2389 words)

	Rhetoric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such, rhetoric is said to flourish in open and democratic societies with rights of free speech, free assembly, and political enfranchisement for some portion of the population.
		Its orations in favour of qualities such as madness spawned a type of exercise popular in Elizabethan grammar schools, later called adoxography, which required pupils to compose passages in praise of useless things.
		The Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), who was deeply influenced by Newman's An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870), worked out what he styles the generalized empirical method in Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and elsewhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhetoric (5179 words)

	Religious Thought in the Oxford Movement, by C.C.J. Webb (1928)
		But at the root of the apparently opposite errors of both these lies an inadequate appreciation of what would correspond to the idea of that very holiness, the passion for which is the ruling motive of either.
		My next remarks will concern the doctrine of faith which, as worked out by Newman, eventually took shape, after his submission to Rome, in the Grammar of Assent, but which is an undoubted product of the Oxford Movement.
		We may, indeed, agree with him that "there is no ultimate test of truth besides the testimony borne to truth by the mind itself," [Grammar of Assent, p.
	anglicanhistory.org /england/ccjwebb1928/06.html (3859 words)

	The Origins of Newman's "The Grammar of Assent" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ward cites a memorandum by Newman on "Fluctuations of Human Opinion," dated 1860, giving the viewpoint of a sceptic; the arguments are essentially those of Capes.
		The Grammar of Assent was Newman's final answer to the problems therein posed.
		For Simpson's critique of the Grammar of Assent, see his review in the North British Review, LII (July 1870), 220-233.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/religion/altholz/4n43.html (131 words)

	Catholics & Reason: Reply to Certain Misrepresentations of Catholic Apologetics & Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		To the extent that I am a follower of any particular philosophy, it is that of John Henry Newman.
		Without confronting Thomism head-on, Newman's Grammar of Assent accepted the positive function of doubt as a means of moving towards faith, and it elevated "probability" to the status occupied by "certainty" in earlier systems.
		Next, from what has been said it is plain, that such a process of reasoning is more or less implicit, and without the direct and full advertence of the mind exercising it.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ410.HTM (2918 words)

	Dove Booksellers Order Page: John Henry Newman, Essay in Aid of "A Grammar of Assent" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This book provides the first critical edition of John Henry Newman's classic work, A Grammar of Assent.
		The editor's introduction contains a synopsis of Newman's argument as well as an account of the development of his thought and a history of the composition of the final text.
		Ker discusses critcal reaction to the Grammar and attempts to clarify and interpret Newman's thoughts in areas where his meaning has been misunderstood.
	www.dovebook.com /new/bookdesc.asp?BookID=30211 (257 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		Newman's view of conscience has a more transcendent importance: Conscience is the normal means by which most people know of the existence of God.
		People from across the theological spectrum would agree with Newman that conscience is "a connecting principle between the creature and his Creator" ("Grammar of Assent," Chapter 5).
		Yet it seems clear that most dissenters do not fear guilt if they obey the Church: What they fear is precisely the frustration of their unsatisfied wishes.
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		Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent John Henry Newman ISBN: 0268010005
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	University of Dallas - Newman Biography
		In 1865 he published “The Dream of Gerontius,” a long poem about immediate life after death, and “Letter to Pusey” on Marian devotion.
		His most philosophical work, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870), aimed at justifying religious faith by describing how ordinary minds think, assent, and reach certitude.
		Newman declined the invitation by bishops and Pope to serve as theological consultant for the First Vatican Council.
	www.udallas.edu /newman/biography.cfm (929 words)

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