Grammar of Consent: The Existence of God in Christian Tradition

by Aidan Nichols, O.P.

Overview

A Grammar of Consent broadens John Henry Newman's argument for the existence of God to include more experiential materials reflecting two millenia of Christian philosophy. Nichols provides a beneficial corrective to a common contemporary narrowness in limiting experiential arguments to those dealing with some sort of distinctively religious experience. The book will be of interest to students and teachers in philosophy of religion, theology, history of ideas, and the wider philosophically and theologically interested public.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268010263
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	07/31/1991
Series:	Library of Religious Philosophy , #6
Edition description:	1
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols OP is an English academic and Catholic priest. Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Protestant Reformation.

Editorial Reviews

"Nichols allows his readers to exercise their own illative powers and see glimpses of the divine arising less by explication than by storytelling and evocation." —Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion

"... a wealth of solid food to nourish and keep one strong in the way of faith. Aidan Nichols scores high as an imaginative thinker and a philosophically astute theologian." —Living Prayer

"This is a splendid book, a little masterpiece in the genre of wide-ranging surveys. Aidan Nichols ... writes with the mastery, balance and gracefulness that comes only from a lifetime of disciplined study and teaching." —The Christian Century

From the Publisher

Nichols allows his readers to exercise their own illative powers and see glimpses of the divine arising less by explication than by storytelling and evocation.

Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion

A wealth of solid food to nourish and keep one strong in the way of faith. Aidan Nichols scores high as an imaginative thinker and a philosophically astute theologian.

Living Prayer

This is a splendid book, a little masterpiece in the genre of wide-ranging surveys. Aidan Nichols . . . writes with the mastery, balance and gracefulness that comes only from a lifetime of disciplined study and teaching.

The Christian Century