04069nam a2200517Ka 4500 ocn818658355 OCoLC 20200709055625.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121119s2004 dcu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780813215839 (electronic bk.) 0813215838 (electronic bk.) 0813213649 9780813213644 (OCoLC)818658355 498834 (N$T) BT50 .A69 2004eb REL 067000 bisacsh 231.042 22 N$TA Aquino, Frederick D., 1963- Communities of informed judgment [electronic resource] : Newman's illative sense and accounts of rationality / Frederick D. Aquino. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004. 1 online resource (x, 182 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index. Re-reading Newman -- University sermons : a preliminary investigation -- Cultivating personal judgment : a methodological dilemma -- A social epistemology of informed judgment -- Shaping communities of theological judgment. Annotation Is Christian belief rationally acceptable? Must every Christian defend his or her beliefs with exhaustively logical arguments, or is belief solely a matter of faith rather than logical argument? In Communities of Informed Judgment, Frederick D. Aquino offers an alternative route, showing how John Henry Newman's notion of the illative sense of reasoning paves a way for constructing a fresh account of the rationality of Christian belief. Moving beyond both modern and postmodern accounts of rationality, Aquino constructs a proposal of informed judgment, blending Newman's notion of the illative sense of reasoning with recent work in social and virtue epistemology. The first part of the book focuses primarily on Newman's treatment of the illative sense in the Grammar of Assent, with the University Sermons as a backdrop. The second part addresses the problem of securing a common standard of justification. Though Newman acknowledges the social and communal facets of judgment, his focus is primarily on the personal dimension. Aquino develops Newman's insights into a social epistemology of informed judgment, transposing the problem of common measure into a problem of trusting the illative sense as a reliable belief-forming process in communities of informed judgment. An original contribution to Newman studies, the book has an interdisciplinary focus, drawing from recent work in social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and cognitive science. It also takes up issues relevant to the philosophy of religion, epistemology of religious belief, systematic theology, ecumenical dialogue, and studies in John Henry Newman. Frederick D. Aquino is Assistant Professor of Theology at AbileneChristian University. He serves on the editorial boards of Newman Studies Journal and Christian Higher Education, and is the editor of Journal for Case Teaching. Description based on print version record. Faith and reason. Knowledge, Sociology of. Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890. Newman, John Henry. swd Glaube. swd Vernunft. swd RELIGION / Christian Theology / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Aquino, Frederick D., 1963- Communities of informed judgment. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004 0813213649 (DLC) 2003007648 (OCoLC)52057390 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=498834 Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip042/2003007648.html ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10289960 EBSCOhost EBSC 498834 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51852 51852