Coleridge and Newman
The Centrality of Conscience

Philip Rule (Author)

9780823223152

Hardback, published 15 July 2004

226 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.48 kg

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.