Wednesday, April 25, 4:30 PM
“Newman, Vatican II, and the Hermeneutic of Continuity”
Ian Ker, University of Oxford
Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall
1025 East 58th Street
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Often called “the Father of the Second Vatican Council,” Newman both anticipated a number of its teachings and, through his recovery of the thought of the early Church, provides a hermeneutic of continuity for interpreting the Council’s documents.
Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology at universities in the United States and Britain, where he is currently a member of the Oxford theology faculty. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman, including the standard biography which Oxford University Press reissued prior to Newman’s beatification. He is also the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, Mere Catholicism, and most recently, G. K. Chesterton: A Biography.
