Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host of the show and the content

director here at Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Today, Bishop Aaron is not with us. He's

busily traveling all the way to Rome where he's receiving an honorary doctorate at the

Angelicum, also known as the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. But today, instead

of leaving you hanging, we're going to share a snippet from a talk that Bishop Aaron gave

a few years back on a classic book by Blessed John Henry Newman, who hopefully will be canonized

later this year and become Saint John Henry Newman. This talk was part of a series of talks

Bishop Aaron gave at the North American College, which is also in Rome. And we shared the

first couple clips from the initial talk on John Henry Newman's spiritual autobiography,

Apologia Pro Vita Sua, several episodes back. I think it's episodes 155 and 156. So if you

miss that first talk on Newman's first book, you might want to go back and listen to that.

But today, we're going to play the first half of the second hour long talk. This talk

is on another classic. This one titled an essay on the development of Christian doctrine

and is one of Newman's seminal texts sharing how doctrine can develop over time. The analogy

he uses is like an acorn that grows and develops into a big oak tree over time that doctrine

isn't just stagnant, but grows and is reshapen by the lively play of interacting minds. We're

going to share the first half of this talk here. We'll share the second half on a future

episode. But before I turn it over to Bishop Aaron, just a reminder, if you haven't already

picked up your word on fire classics edition of this book essay on the development of Christian

doctrine, now's a great time to do it. Just go to wordonfireshow.com slash Newman. You

can get a deluxe hardcover edition of the book with a beautiful ribbon bookmark. It also

includes an introduction by Bishop Aaron and a sketch of John Henry Newman also by Bishop

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