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Pilgrim42
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I need to know what this exact quotation was and who said it–it was something like, “To know history is to become Catholic,” or words to that effect.
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Tietjen
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John Henry Newman - “To know history is to be Catholic.”
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Tietjen
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I think the original quote by Newman was, “To know history is to cease to be a Protestant.” Henry Cardinal Newman, was a former Anglican who became one of the greatest Catholic minds of the modern era.
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Fidelis
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The quoted person is right, but the actual quote is: “To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.”
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Actually, the name is Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman.Tietjen:
The quoted person is right, but the actual quote is: “To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.”
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Here is an expanded quote:
“History is not a creed or catechism, it gives lessons rather than rules; still no one can mistake its general teaching in this matter, whether he accept it or stumble at it. Bold outlines and broad masses of colour rise out of the records of the past. They may be dim, they may be incomplete; but they are definite. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this. And Protestantism has ever felt it so. . . . This is shown in the determination already referred to of dispensing with historical Christianity altogether, and of forming a Christianity from the Bible alone: men never would have put it aside, unless they had despaired of it. . . . Our popular religion scarcely recognizes the fact of the twelve long ages which lie between the Councils of Nicaea and Trent, except as offering one or two passages to illustrate its wild interpretations of certain prophecies of St. Paul and St. John. . . . To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.” - Cardinal John Henry Newman
“History is not a creed or catechism, it gives lessons rather than rules; still no one can mistake its general teaching in this matter, whether he accept it or stumble at it. Bold outlines and broad masses of colour rise out of the records of the past. They may be dim, they may be incomplete; but they are definite. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this. And Protestantism has ever felt it so. . . . This is shown in the determination already referred to of dispensing with historical Christianity altogether, and of forming a Christianity from the Bible alone: men never would have put it aside, unless they had despaired of it. . . . Our popular religion scarcely recognizes the fact of the twelve long ages which lie between the Councils of Nicaea and Trent, except as offering one or two passages to illustrate its wild interpretations of certain prophecies of St. Paul and St. John. . . . To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.” - Cardinal John Henry Newman
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