...least) and he is a champion of dogmatism. In one of the most famous lines of the Apologia , he writes, ' 'From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. . . ."29 Many Newmanists have decried attempts by commentators to portray Newman as a relativist, and...

...Discourse III. § 7. 2 Newman's imagination so innately craved a sacerdotal system that he can write: "From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...enter into the idea of any other sort of religion." And again, speaking of himself about the age of thirty, he writes: "I loved to act as feeling myself...

...not simply morality but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English, poet, critic From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. Cardmal John Newman (1801-1890) English churchman, theologian The truth of religion is in its ritual...

...that, "from the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery." 63 Newman's vision of dogmatic formulae is not of lifeless propositions restraining the religious impulse...

...principles and even dogmas were fundamental to him: "I have changed in many things: in this I have not. From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...fact of a father, as devotion without the fact of a Supreme Being." The eighteen propositions against theological liberalism that Newman appended to his...

...the Movement is as dear to me now, as it ever was. I have changed in many things: in this I have not. From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...fact of a father, as devotion without the fact of a Supreme Being. What I held in 1 8 16, I held in 1833, and I hold in 1 864. Please God, I shall hold...

...rather than a change of heart. 'From the age of fifteen,' wrote John Henry Newman in his Apologia, 'dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion;...a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.' Stephen could have made no such claim, but when he began seriously to consider the content of his beliefs,...

...itself to be. Apologia pro Vila Sua ( 1 864) 'History of My Religious Opinions from 1833 to 1839' 7 From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...principle of my religion: I know no other religion; 1 cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me...

...ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion, 54 (1880) 12 From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental...a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita swa(1864) ij However strong and confident may be my conviction...

...half a century ago, I hold with equal intellectual assent today. Newman's words exactly fit my case: From the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental...fact of a father, as devotion without the fact of a Supreme Being.4 In the circumstances I have outlined, it is not surprising that a lad of sixteen should...