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THE EVOLUTION OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN’S SPIRITUALITY Dominikus Doni Ola
LOGOS Vol 8 No 1 (2011): Januari 2011
Publisher : UNIKA Santo Thomas

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John Henry Newman is an outstanding pupil. He had a great desire for knowledge, falls in love with music, poem and expressed his thought in speech and writing, always ready for wonder, wholly-hearted and entirely ready to the call of everything around him, loved solitude, and ready to seek the Lord will provide in every changes in the external circumstances of life. For Newman, Evangelical teaching had been a great blessing for England and had led him to a spiritual life. Together with his knowledge of the doctrine of Calvinism and Catholic delivered Newman in a big conflict of his mind in one side, but in another side he looked it as a source of a personal encounter with God. Since the first conversions of 1816, Newman who has a sharp consciousness of the realities of the world beyond knew that he was powerless without Divine assistance.
A PERSONAL GOD IN NEWMAN'S THOUGHT Dominikus Doni Ola
LOGOS Vol 5 No 1 (2007): Januari 2007
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Gagasan manusia tentang Allah mengalami perkembangan dalam sejarah, karena gagasan itu selalu mempunyai arti yang sedikit berbeda bagi setiap kelompok manusia yang menggunakannya di berbagai zaman yang berbeda. Pada zaman tertentu Allah yang maha agung itu diperkenalkan sebagai Allah yang menakutkan dan penghukum. Pada zaman lain Allah dihayati sebagai kasih. Setiap generasi memang dapat menciptakan citra Allah yang sesuai bagi generasinya, walau Allah melampaui segala ekspresi anak zaman. Newman yakin bahwa Allah yang diwahyukan Yesus adalah Allah yang dekat, yang berbicara dari hati ke hati dengan insan ciptaan-Nya. Ia adalah Pribadi dan hanya dalam Dialah manusia dapat memenuhi segala kerinduan batinnya yang terdalam.