Tract 85: Lectures on the Scripture Proofs of the Doctrines of the Church
In my on-going fascination with the rationale for practices of biblical interpretation (particularly in England, particularly among catholic-minded scholars), I was perusing John Henry Newman’s Tract 85, and it occurred to me that it, too, might be worth transcribing for study purposes.
This link leads to a single-page A5 layout PDF of the booklet. It may work best for tablets, for instance.
This link leads to a side-by-side A4 layout PDF, which should scroll nicely along a larger landscape-oriented computer screen.
And maybe someday I’ll run them through Calibre to make ebook format versions.
As is often the case with Newman, I am about two-thirds sympathetic. He could solve a lot of the problems with which he’s wrestling if he gave up on the conceptual metaphor that texts contain meaning, but then I would say that.