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Chapter

I. The Role of Conscience in Newman's

Conversion

II. Newman's Analysis of the Nature and

Functions of Conscience

1. Introduction

2. Conscience and its relations to

Notional and Real Assent

3. Conscience as it is related to Simple

Assent and Complex Assent

4. Conscience as it is related to

III. The Need for some objective Criteria

for Evaluating the Dictates of

Conscience

1. Introduction

IV. Influences that can distort Conscience

1. Habit and Conscience .

2. Custom and Conscience

3. Education and Conscience

4. Prejudice and Conscience

5. Summary

CONCLUSION: Newman and Contemporary

Catholic Moral Theology.

1. Habitual and Actual Conscience

2. Antecedent and Consequent

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The following abbreviations of Newman's works are

used in the footnotes:

Apo.
Ari.

Corres.

Diff. ᎠᎪ . Dev.

Ess.

G. A.
H.S.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

The Arians of the Fourth Century

Correspondence of John Henry Newman with
John Keble and Others, 1839-1845
Difficulties of Anglicans

Discussions and Arguments

An Essay on the Development of Christian
Doctrine

Essays Critical and Historical

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
Historical Sketches

The Idea of a University

Lectures on Justification

Letters and Correspondence

Idea

Jfc.

L.C.

L.G.

Loss and Gain