J. H. Newman The Dream of Gerontius におけるsigns, typesとsymbols : 初代教父思想とスコラ学の影響について

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to examine how far-to be exact, how little-the traditional scholasticism influenced John Henry Newman's(1801-1890)individual eschatology,even after his conversion to the Catholic church in 1845. In The Dream of Gerontius(1865),a poem of his Catholic period,Newman speculated on the conditions of the souls in the purgatory and wondered how congnition without senses could possibly exist.In order to approach this highly speculative topics, Newman chose words,such as“sings,”“types”,and “symbols” to designate the sacramental medium of cognition,rather than the traditional scholastic term“species,”employed by St.Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae I, q, 89.In this paper, I trace the origin of the words,“signs,”“types,”and “symbols” to the patristic literature of the early centuries and show how patrology influenced Newman's theology both in his Anglican and in his Catholic periods.