To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often: The Development of John Henry Newman's Ecclesiological Outlook, 18451877 [Hardcover]

This study approaches John Henry Newmans writings on the church from a fresh perspective by examining the development of Newmans ecclesiological outlook over time. It demonstrates that it can be misleading to refer to Newmans Catholic ecclesiology (singular), because such an approach gives the impression that Newman maintained a stable ecclesiological perspective during his Roman Catholic period. In reality, Newmans outlook on the church underwent significant developments over the last four decades of his life. As a result of various events in his life, including the Rambler affair and his experience of the First Vatican Council, Newman slowly developed an ecclesiological outlook that counterbalanced the authority of the pope and bishops with a robust account of the role of theologians and the lay faithful in the reception and transmission of church doctrine. Whether consciously or not, Newman left his ecclesiological writings open for further development on the part of theologians who would follow after him.Ryan J. Marr received his PhD in historical theology from Saint Louis University and is director of the National Institute for Newman Studies.

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Scholars have tended to assume that out of John Henry Newmans vast corpus of writings a systematic and static theology of the church could be extracted. Marrs study questions that assumption. The great merit of Ryan Marrs original and nuanced re-interpretative study is to show that, on the contrary, Newmans ecclesiology evolved and developed over time and in line with a changing historical context and circumstances. In a learned and deeply researched analysis of Newmans doctrine of the churchl“c