Conscience and Selfhood: Thomas More, John Henry Newman, and the Crisis of the Postmodern Subject

Both Thomas More and John Henry Newman understood the human subject as a historically situated, responsible, and dynamic being that realizes itself through conscientious moral action amid the ambiguities of history. Both men were also obliged to come to terms with the tensile relationship between lo...

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Main Author: Merrigan, Terrence (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2012
In: Theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 841-869
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Summary:Both Thomas More and John Henry Newman understood the human subject as a historically situated, responsible, and dynamic being that realizes itself through conscientious moral action amid the ambiguities of history. Both men were also obliged to come to terms with the tensile relationship between loyalty to conscience and loyalty to tradition. Their lives and their work would seem to resonate with, and constitute a challenge to, the contemporary postmodern debate about the nature of selfhood.
ISSN:2169-1304
Contains:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004056391207300405