Wadsworth Final Revised for IR

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Wadsworth Final Revised for IR THE INFLUENCE OF THE THEOLOGY OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM ON THE WRITINGS OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN by ANDREW RAYMOND WADSWORTH submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the subject BIBLICAL STUDIES (NEW TESTAMENT) at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: PROF. CHRIS L. DE WET February 2021 DECLARATION Name: Andrew Raymond Wadsworth_______________________________________ Student number: 64090213________________________________________________________ Degree: PhD Religious Studies (New Testament)________________________________ Exact wording of the title of the thesis as appearing on the electronic copy submitted for examination: The Influence of the Theology of John Chrysostom on the Writings of John Henry Newman I declare that the above thesis is my own work and that all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. I further declare that I submitted the thesis to originality checking software and that it falls within the accepted requirements for originality. I further declare that I have not previously submitted this work, or part of it, for examination at Unisa for another qualification or at any other higher education institution. ________________________ _____________________20 February 2021 SIGNATURE DATE 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ENGLISH SUMMARY AND KEYWORDS ................................................................................................ 5 AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING EN TREFWOORDE .................................................................................. 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................................................... 9 ABBREVIATIONS FOR PRIMARY SOURCES ...................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................................... 18 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 18 1.1 Introductory Remarks ................................................................................................................................ 18 1.2 Problem Statement, Aims and Hypothesis ................................................................................................. 25 1.3 Contribution of the Study ........................................................................................................................... 26 1.4 Methodology ............................................................................................................................................. 28 1.5 Availability and Citing of the Sources ........................................................................................................ 28 1.6 Literature Review ....................................................................................................................................... 29 1.7 Structure of Thesis ..................................................................................................................................... 57 CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................................... 60 NEWMAN’S PREPARATION FOR READING THE FATHERS ............................................................ 60 2.1 Early Life .................................................................................................................................................... 60 2.2 Education at School ................................................................................................................................... 62 2.3 University Education .................................................................................................................................. 64 2.4 Holy Orders ................................................................................................................................................ 72 2.5 A State of Flux ............................................................................................................................................ 76 2.6 Becoming a Catholic .................................................................................................................................. 81 2.7 Newman as an Educator ............................................................................................................................ 83 2.8 The Influence of the Fathers on Newman .................................................................................................. 88 2.9 Newman Opposes Rationalism .................................................................................................................. 94 CHAPTER 3 ............................................................................................................................................. 101 JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AS PASTOR AND PREACHER ....................................................................... 101 3.1 Constructing a Biography of Chrysostom ................................................................................................ 101 3.2 Chrysostom’s Early Life ............................................................................................................................ 102 3.3 Priest and Preacher in Antioch ................................................................................................................. 107 3.4 Bishop in Constantinople ......................................................................................................................... 111 3.5 Transition into Exile and Death ................................................................................................................ 117 3.6 His Writings ............................................................................................................................................. 119 3.7 Early and Enduring Fame and Influence .................................................................................................. 124 3 3.8 Characteristics of Chrysostom’s Writing .................................................................................................. 132 3.9 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 136 CHAPTER 4 ............................................................................................................................................ 140 NEWMAN’S READING OF CHRYSOSTOM ........................................................................................ 140 4.1 How Chrysostom Came to be Read in England ........................................................................................ 140 4.2 How Newman Came to Read Chrysostom ............................................................................................... 143 4.3 How was Newman Guided in his Reading of Chrysostom? ...................................................................... 145 4.4 Newman Writes about Chrysostom ......................................................................................................... 147 CHAPTER 5 ............................................................................................................................................ 161 COMMON PRINCIPLES OF THE PATRISTIC ERA SHARED BY NEWMAN AND CHRYSOSTOM .................................................................................................................................................................. 161 5.1 Setting Up the Comparison ...................................................................................................................... 161 5.2 The Dogmatic Principle ............................................................................................................................ 162 5.3 The Sacramental Principle ....................................................................................................................... 174 5.4. The Principle of Divine Providence .......................................................................................................... 194 5.5 The Principle of Development .................................................................................................................. 207 5.6 The Comparison Continues ...................................................................................................................... 220 CHAPTER 6 ............................................................................................................................................. 221 LETTERS OF DIRECTION FROM NEWMAN AND CHRYSOSTOM ................................................ 221 6.1 Working with Presumptions .................................................................................................................... 221 6.2 Chrysostom and Olympias ....................................................................................................................... 228 6.3 Newman and Maria Giberne ................................................................................................................... 233 6.4 Common Themes of Spiritual Direction ................................................................................................... 245
Recommended publications
  • (2019), No. 7 1 Some Marginalia in Burnet's
    Some Marginalia in Burnet’s History of My Own Time Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (1643–1715) had no known connection with New College during his lifetime, and very little contact with the University of Oxford. He was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, and as a young man he had served briefly as Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, but he is not remembered primarily as an academic or as a scholar. Yet, long after his death, New College Library acquired a copy of one of Burnet’s books of very considerable interest to those historians of the British Isles who specialize in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. To explain why this is so, it is necessary first to describe Burnet, and the part he played in the affairs of the period through which he lived. I Burnet began to compile the final version of his History of My Own Time, the book in question, in about 1703, during the reign of Queen Anne. It was an exercise in contemporary history, rather than an autobiography, and it covered, in a narrative format, the years from the Restoration of 1660 to, eventually, the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. An introductory chapter covered the reign of Charles I, the civil wars in Scotland and England, and the Interregnum. It was well known to contemporaries that Burnet was engaged in writing what was called his ‘Secret History’, and its publication was awaited with keen anticipation, because Burnet was a celebrated figure both in ecclesiastical affairs and in secular politics.
    [Show full text]
  • HITLER HOMER BIBLE CHRIST the Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995–2013
    Bibliography for HITLER HOMER BIBLE CHRIST The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995–2013 RICHARD CARRIER Ph.D. Philosophy Press 2014 Copyright © 2014 Richard Carrier Additional copyrights noted below. All rights reserved. QUICK LINKS Click the chapter number to go to that chapter’s title and a statement of copyrights and where it first appeared. If a chapter has bibliographies, those links appear below each chapter number on this quick link list. Chapter 1 (no bibliography) Chapter 2 (no bibliography) Chapter 3 (brief bibliography) Chapter 4 (no bibliography) Chapter 5 (bibliography of ancient works cited) (bibliography of scholarship cited) Chapter 6 (no bibliography) Chapter 7 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 8 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 9 (bibliography) Chapter 10 (no bibliography) Chapter 11 (no bibliography) Chapter 12 (bibliography) Chapter 13 (no bibliography) Chapter 14 (brief bibliography) Chapter 15 (expanded report) (passages cited) (bibliography) Chapter 16 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 17 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 18 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 19 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Chapter 20 (passages cited) (scholarship cited) Appendix: List of Richard Carrier’s Books and Chapters -:- CHAPTER 1 THE FUNCTION OF THE HISTORIAN IN SOCIETY Was originally published in The History Teacher 35.4 (August 2002): 519-26. Reproduced with permission. CHAPTER 2 HISTORY BEFORE 1950 Was originally published at Richard Carrier Blogs 30 April 2007. Revised. Copyright 2003, 2007, and 2014. CHAPTER 3 EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY Was originally published at Richard Carrier Blogs 28 July 2007. Revised. Copyright 2007 and 2014. In the print edition, drawings were included showing the oar arrangements discussed in the text, depicting ancient ships in cross section.
    [Show full text]
  • The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, C. 1800-1837
    The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837 Nicholas Andrew Dixon Pembroke College, Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. November 2018 Declaration This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It is not substantially the same as any that I have submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for a degree or diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. I further state that no substantial part of my dissertation has already been submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for any such degree, diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It does not exceed the prescribed word limit for the relevant Degree Committee. Nicholas Dixon November 2018 ii Thesis Summary The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837 Nicholas Andrew Dixon Pembroke College, Cambridge This thesis examines the various ways in which the Church of England engaged with English politics and society from c. 1800 to 1837. Assessments of the early nineteenth-century Church of England remain coloured by a critique originating in radical anti-clerical polemics of the period and reinforced by the writings of the Tractarians and Élie Halévy. It is often assumed that, in consequence of social and political change, the influence of a complacent and reactionary church was irreparably eroded by 1830.
    [Show full text]
  • Durham E-Theses
    Durham E-Theses In whose name I write: John Henry Newman;s reading of the Alexandrian fathers King, Benjamin John How to cite: King, Benjamin John (2007) In whose name I write: John Henry Newman;s reading of the Alexandrian fathers, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2454/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 "In whose name I write": John Henry Newman's reading of the Alexandrian Fathers. Benjamin John King Ph.D. in the Department ofTheology The University ofDurham 2007 The copyright of this thesis rests with the author or the university to which it was submitted. No quotation from it, or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author or university, and any information derived from it should be acknowledged.
    [Show full text]
  • LADIES-IN-WAITING: Art, Sex and Politics at the Early Georgian Court
    LADIES-IN-WAITING: Art, Sex and Politics at the early Georgian Court By Eric Jonathan Weichel A thesis submitted to the Department of Art in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada (April 2013) Copyright © Eric Jonathan Weichel, 2013. i Abstract This thesis discusses the cultural contributions – artistic patronage, art theory, art satire - of four Ladies-in-Waiting employed at the early eighteenth-century century British court: Mary, Countess Cowper; Charlotte Clayton, Baroness Sundon; Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk; and Mary Hervey, Baroness Hervey of Ickworth. Through a close reading of archival manuscripts, published correspondences and art historical treatises, I explore the cultural milieu, historical legacy and historiographic reception of these individuals. I argue that their writing reveals fresh insight on the switch from Baroque to Rococo modes of portraiture in Britain, as it does critical attitudes to sex, religion and politics among aristocratic women. Through the use of satire, these courtiers comment on extramarital affairs, rape, homosexuality and divorce among their peer group. They also show an interest in issues of feminist education, literature, political and religious patronage, and contemporary news events, which they reference through allusions to painting, architecture, sculpture, engravings, ceramics, textiles and book illustrations. Many of the artists patronized by the court in this period were foreign-born, peripatetic, and stylistically unusual. Partly due to the transnational nature of these artist’s careers, and partly due to the reluctance of later historians to admit the extent of foreign socio-cultural influence, biased judgements about the quality of these émigré painters’ work continue to predominate in art historical scholarship.
    [Show full text]
  • Guide to the Archives of Magdalen College, Oxford
    GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVES OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD compiled by Dr. Janie Cottis (Archivist 1987–96) revised by Dr. Robin Darwall-Smith (Archivist 1996–2016) January 2016 CONTENTS 1 FOUNDATION AND CONSTITUTION 1. 1 Founder 1.1.1 General 1.1.2 Deeds and Statutes of the Founder 1.1.3 Biographical Material 1.1.4 Illustrative Material 1.2 Foundation Deeds 1.2.1 General 1.2.2 Foundation Deeds, Confirmation Charters and Papal Bulls 1.3 Statutes 1.3.1 General 1.3.2 Original (15th cent.) Statutes 1.3.3 Reformed Statutes: the Ordinance of 1857 1.3.4 Reformed Statutes: the Universities Act of 1877 1.3.5 Reformed Statutes: the Universities Act of 1923 1.4 Bylaws 1.4.1 General 1.4.2 Editions of Bylaws 1.4.3 Related Papers 1.5 Visitors' and External Injunctions 1.5.1 The College Visitors: the Bishops of Winchester 1.5.2 Visitors' Decrees, Ordinances and Injunctions 1.5.3 Tudor Visitations of the University 1.5.4 The Parliamentary Commission for Visiting the University, 1647–59 1.5.5 The Visitation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1687–8: the Expulsion and Restoration of the Fellows 2 ENDOWMENT 2.1 Estates 2.1.1 Waynflete's Endowment: General 2.1.2 Waynflete's Endowment: Finding Aids 2.1.3 Summary of Macray's Calendar of the Muniments 2.1.4 Additional Medieval Deeds: Adds. Series 2.1.5 Additions to the Endowment of Land 2.1.6 Related Documents 2.2 Advowsons 2.2.1 General 2.2.2 List of Advowsons 2.2.3 Related Papers: Licences of Mortmain MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD ii DR.
    [Show full text]
  • Mc:Pr30 the Papers of Martin Joseph Routh (D. 1771–5; F
    MC:PR30 THE PAPERS OF MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854) Catalogued by Robin Darwall-Smith December 2015 Magdalen College Oxford MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD i MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D. 1771–5; F. 1775–91; P. 1791–1854) CONTENTS Introduction ii 1 - The life and career of Martin Routh ii 2 - Select bibliography of the works of Martin Routh iii 3 - The history of the present collection iii 4 - Bibliography of works about Martin Routh iv MC:PR30/1: Routh papers collected by John Bloxam 1 MC:PR30/1/C1: Letters concerning Routh’s family and personal life 1 MC:PR30/1/C2: Letters from members of Magdalen College 22 MC:PR30/1/C3: Letters concerning particular individuals or groups of people 130 MC:PR30/1/C4: Letters from miscellaneous correspondents 203 MC:PR30/1/MS1: Material concerning Richard Chandler’s life of William Waynflete 289 MC:PR30/1/MS2: Material concerning Routh’s research 295 MC:PR30/1/MS3: Material concerning Routh’s activities as President 299 MC:PR30/1/MS4: Inscriptions composed by Routh 303 MC:PR30/2: Documents from and concerning Routh’s Library 309 MC:PR30/2/MS1: MS Books from the Routh Library 309 MC:PR30/2/MS2: Catalogues of the Routh Library 312 MC:PR30/3: Documents relating to Routh’s scholarly research 312 MC:PR30/3/MS1: Documents relating to Reliquiae Sacrae 312 MC:PR30/3/MS2: Documents relating to Gilbert Burnet’s memoirs 313 MC:PR30/4: Routh Papers found in Magdalen after Bloxam 313 MC:PR30/4/C1: Letters, mainly concerning Routh’s family 314 MC:PR30/4/C2: Letters on Routh’s dealings with College Visitors 318 MC:PR30/4/C3: Miscellaneous correspondence 322 MC:PR30/4/MS1: Papers on South Petherwyn (now Petherwin) 324 MC:PR30/4/MS2: Miscellaneous Papers 326 MC:PR30/4/N1: Printed Miscellanea 328 MC:PR30/4/P1: Daguerreotype 328 MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD ii MC:PR30 PAPERS OF MARTIN ROUTH (D.
    [Show full text]
  • Social Reforms and Classical Music in British Literature and Culture from 1870 to 1945
    Music Made Meaningful: Social Reforms and Classical Music in British Literature and Culture from 1870 to 1945 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By David Henry Deutsch, M. A. Graduate Program in English The Ohio State University 2011 Dissertation Committee: Sebastian Knowles, Advisor David Adams Mark Conroy Copyright by David H. Deutsch 2011 Abstract This dissertation examines the importance of classical music portrayed in British literature as a means to indicate social worth, intellectual ability, and political identity. Most scholars of music and literature emphasize the abstract, avant-garde influence of quartets and fugues on novels and poetry, overlooking the broader cultural implications of music in Britain. This project demonstrates how, from the 1870s, authors such as Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde used diverse appreciations of opera and instrumental music to make socio-economic and moral distinctions, as well as to portray political cohesion through communal pleasures. Turning to literature written after 1900, I show how modernist authors such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf revised these late-Victorian themes and used an ability to understand classical music as a litmus test for determining a character‟s placement within intellectual hierarchies. To locate these literary concerns within their cultural context, I uncover how journalists depicted concerts in domestic and institutional settings to indicate the value of communities that could create and sustain an art increasingly recognized as nationally important. Having established the social significance of classical music, I detail how writers relied on musical proclivities to justify the value of alienated subcultures to the larger British populace.
    [Show full text]
  • Scripture and Providence: the Hutchinsonian Quest to Save The
    Scripture and Providence: The Hutchinsonian Quest to Save the Old Testament by David Paul Aikins Ney A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Wycliffe College and the Theology Department of the Toronto School of Theology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Theology awarded by Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto © Copyright by David Paul Aikins Ney 2016 Scripture and Providence: The Hutchinsonian Quest to Save the Old Testament David Paul Aikins Ney Doctor of Theology Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto 2016 ABSTRACT The conviction that the Old Testament struggles to function as Scripture for Christians in the modern west has a long history. The first to identify the problem was likely eighteenth-century natural philosopher John Hutchinson. Hutchinson complained that the Old Testament had fallen into disrepute because, while people were praising Newton as the font of natural philosophical wisdom, they should have been looking to Moses. Hutchinson accordingly devised an ingenious method of interpreting the words of Moses as natural philosophical emblems. Hutchinson’s disciples applied Hutchinson’s method to the full range of Scriptural words. In the process, they made the providential significance of the full range of natural and historical objects dependent upon their reinterpretation as Scriptural figures. The way the Hutchinsonians were able to make all Scriptural words beneficial for providential discernment enabled them to defend the Old Testament as an eQual partner in the Christian canon of Scripture. It was as a historical document that the Old Testament was called into Question in eighteenth-century England.
    [Show full text]
  • The Founders of the Oxford Architectural Society
    The Founders of the Oxford Architectural Society Peter Howell Summary The Oxford Architectural Society, a progenitor of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS), was founded in 1839 by a group of university men and Oxford citizens. Their aim was to spread knowledge of ‘correct’ Gothic architecture among men who were, or soon would be, clergymen. It was the first society of its kind, shortly followed by the Cambridge Camden Society, and especially in its first twenty years had an incalculable influence on church building and restoration not only in Britain but also in the colonies. Less polemical than the Cambridge society, it weathered religious controversies more easily. he founders of the Oxford Architectural Society were a group of Oxford University members Tand other local men who came together to establish a society for the study and promotion of Gothic architecture, and especially of Gothic church architecture. Founded in February 1839, the Society (officially known until 1848 as the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture) was the earliest of its kind in the country.1 The Society’s formation came at a time of widespread interest in medieval antiquities, and when the movement towards a more Catholic theology and worship – a movement closely associated with Oxford – was well under way. On 22 April 1831, for example, Revd Richard Hurrell Froude of Oriel College had read a paper to the Oxford Ashmolean Society on ‘Church Architecture’ in which he had referred to the ‘Gothic, or rather Catholic, style’.
    [Show full text]