Coleridge and Newman The Centrality of Conscience [Hardcover]

By examining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and John Henry Newman's parallel approaches to the central question of Christian apologetics - the existence of God - Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience documents more fully than ever before the extent of Coleridge's influence on Newman. Both men sought to develop an argument for God's existence by understanding conscience as the moral self-awareness that makes us human.

The study provides fresh readings of three texts by Colerdige and three by Newman. The result of these comparative readings is a rhetoric that both informs and invites the reader to personal reflection.

...required reading for any serious historian of Victorian voluntarism and nineteenth-century social thought.[Rule's] methodology provides a viable model for demonstrating the interplay between religious experiences and rhetorical expression.The rich resources [Coleridge and Newman] offers should give this book a place in any well-stocked library that touches on English Romantic or Victorian thought in religion or philosophy.Rule presents new analysis of some major texts, three by Coleridge and three by Newman.