Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and note on references
- 1 Tyrrell and Arnold ‘between two worlds’
- 2 The history of an opinion
- 3 ‘Definite evidence’
- 4 Fundamental convergence: epistemology and metaphysics
- 5 The life of the spirit: ecclesiology and culture
- 6 Christology: the parting of the ways
- 7 God, and ‘the Power that makes for Righteousness’
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix Two letters to the Abbé Venard
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and note on references
- 1 Tyrrell and Arnold ‘between two worlds’
- 2 The history of an opinion
- 3 ‘Definite evidence’
- 4 Fundamental convergence: epistemology and metaphysics
- 5 The life of the spirit: ecclesiology and culture
- 6 Christology: the parting of the ways
- 7 God, and ‘the Power that makes for Righteousness’
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix Two letters to the Abbé Venard
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
When Bremond said that a third of Tyrrell was in Arnold, he made an informed and informative comment, which scholars have rightly taken seriously. However, we should be on our guard: he said ‘in’ not ‘from’ Arnold. I have not tried to go beyond Bremond and argue that Arnold was an important formative influence on Tyrrell. Much of this book has been a reading of the one against the other, to show where their interests converge and diverge, and to see what mutual illumination there is in looking at them together. We have examined two very different ways of doing theology that in a certain light may be made to look reasonably alike.
There was little in Literature and Dogma, the book which Bremond mentioned specifically, that Tyrrell could not have found elsewhere. Had he never read Arnold, he would have found the stress on experiential verification in William James, upon conscience as the mediator of the knowledge of God in Newman, upon immanent forces in Bergson; he would have found the sharp division between religion and science in Loisy, between kernel and husk in Harnack. All of these together (plus an emphasis on revelation as experience, the distinction between religion and theology, and a concern for the symbolic value of dogma) Tyrrell found in Sabatier. Nothing in Tyrrell's published works or private correspondence suggests that he read Arnold at all deeply or systematically.
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- Between Two WorldsGeorge Tyrrell's Relationship to the Thought of Matthew Arnold, pp. 140 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983