Newman Reader - Grammar of Assent

An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent
John Henry Newman

Contents
Dedication
Title Page

Part 1. Assent and Apprehension

		Page
1.	Modes of holding and apprehending Propositions	3.
	§ 1. Modes of holding Propositions	3.
	§ 2. Modes of apprehending Propositions	9.
2.	Assent considered as Apprehensive	13.
3.	The Apprehension of Propositions	19.
4.	Notional and Real Assent	36.
	§ 1. Notional Assents	42.
	§ 2. Real Assents	75.
	§ 3. Notional and Real Assents contrasted	89.
5.	Apprehension and Assent in the matter of Religion	98.
	§ 1. Belief in one God	101.
	§ 2. Belief in the Holy Trinity	122.
	§ 3. Belief in Dogmatic Theology	142.
Part II. Assent and Inference
6.	Assent considered as Unconditional	157.
	§ 1. Simple Assent	159.
	§ 2. Complex Assent	188.
7.	Certitude	210.
	§ 1. Assent and Certitude contrasted	210.
	§ 2. Indefectibility of Certitude	221.
8.	Inference	259.
	§ 1. Formal Inference	259.
	§ 2. Informal Inference	288.
	§ 3. Natural Inference	330.
9.	The Illative Sense	343.
	§ 1. The Sanction of the Illative Sense	346.
	§ 2. The Nature of the Illative Sense	353.
	§ 3. The Range of the Illative Sense	360.
10.	Inference and Assent in the matter of Religion	384.
	§ 1. Natural Religion	389.
	§ 2. Revealed Religion	409.
Notes
1.	On Hooker and Chillingworth	493.
2.	On the alternative intellectually between Atheism and Catholicity	495.
3.	On the punishment of the wicked having no termination	501.

EDWARD BELLASIS,

SERJEANT AT LAW,

IN REMEMBRANCE

OF A LONG, EQUABLE, SUNNY FRIENDSHIP,

IN GRATITUDE

FOR CONTINUAL KINDNESSES SHOWN TO ME,

FOR AN UNWEARIED ZEAL IN MY BEHALF,

FOR A TRUST IN ME WHICH HAS NEVER WAVERED,

AND A PROMPT, EFFECTUAL SUCCOUR AND SUPPORT

IN TIMES OF SPECIAL TRIAL,

FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE

J. H. N.

February 21, 1870.

AN ESSAY

IN AID OF

A GRAMMAR OF ASSENT

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

Non in dialectâ complacuit Deo salvum facere populum suum
St. Ambrose

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