Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Dr. Matthew Patrusick, Senior Director of the

Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you, as always, for joining us.

Friends, in honor of St. John Henry Newman's recently being named a doctor of the church,

we're bringing you Bishop Barron's entire Word on Fire Institute lecture series on John Henry Newman.

Throughout these next several weeks, we'll dive deep into one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and intellectual heroes.

As always, enjoy.

Well, we're now ready to begin the second set of six lectures on the thought of John

Henry Cardinal Newman. You know, I want to give a little fervorino to our Word on Fire

Institute members as I begin the second set of lectures. I really meant to do it at the very outset, but I'll do it now.

Namely this. You know, we have a lot of courses in the series that are very practical.

They're pragmatic. They're about how to do evangelization. They're about, you know, the practicalities.

I think it's very important, though, that we members of the Institute take the time

to look deeply into theological matters. So not every little detail of these lectures on Newman,

like my lectures on von Baltas are last year, like the ones I'll probably do coming up on

maybe Augustine and Aquinas. not everything has an immediate application to practical

evangelism, but it's very important for us to think deeply and clearly about theological matters.

So that's my little vervarino, my little encouragement as we go more deeply into the thought

of this great Catholic theologian.

So the first six lectures, we looked at the two great Newman works, namely the Apologia

Provita Sua, his spiritual autobiography, and the essay on the development of Christian doctrine.

For these next lectures, I'll look at the remaining two really great works of Newman, namely the idea of a

university and the grammar of assent. You know, Newman wrote voluminously on all kinds of topics,

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