St Therese Parish Hall, Thursday Evenings
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm 

August 8, August 15, August 29, September 5

Live Zoom conference with churches in
St Mary's Corvallis (OSU), St Michael's Portland (PSU), and St Therese Halfway

Q&A 

Presented by Father John Poodts, St John Society

Saint John Henry Newman has been called ‘the most important theologian since Saint Thomas Aquinas’ and the ‘secret influence’ on the most important theologians of the 20th century. But, at the same time, we are talking about a circumstantial writer: Newman was not a desk theologian but a pastor and reformer inspired by faith and his experience of the power of the Christian message, whose writings always responded to the needs and challenges of his epoch. He is a saint, and the study of his life and writings will give us access to a deeply vital and renewed look at our faith.

Course Outline:

1. Life of St. John Henry Newman (Aug 8)

2. Newman’s Sermons: in contact with the Invisible World (Aug 15)

3. The Grammar of Assent: dogmatic principle and faith-reason relationship (Aug 29)

4. The Essay on Development: Christian faith as a living idea (Sept 5)

Course Goals:

·  Get familiar with the life and person of Saint John Henry Newman.

·  Know what his main works are and his background.

·  Get in touch with some of his classic texts, especially his sermons.

·  Understand his main ideas, for which he is recognized as the greatest theologian since the Middle Ages.