Contents
Foreword-Avery Dulles
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Newman's Notion of the Illative Sense
Biographical Context of the Grammar
Purpose and Structure of the Grammar
Part One: Making up Our Minds about Ideas and Things
Part Two: The Informal Foundations of Certitude
Biographical Context of Personal Knowledge
Purpose and Structure of Personal Knowledge
Part One: The Art of Knowing
Part Two: The Silent Foundations of Speech
Part Three: Recognizing the Personal Foundation of Knowledge
III. The Epistemologies: Reasoning from Wholes to Wholes
The Tacit, Personal Dimension of the Illative Sense
The Illative Dimension of Tacit Knowledge
Other Intersections
Science as a Model of Certitude
The Positive Role of Doubt
IV. Some Theological Implications of Post-Critical Consciousness
Belief in One God
Belief in the Holy Trinity
Belief in Dogmatic Theology
Natural Religion
Revealed Religion
The Problem of the Papacy
Visionary Theology
Polanyi's Hierarchy of Comprehensive Entities
Conclusion: Breaking into Dogma
Appendix: A Partial Glossary of Terms
Selected Bibliography
Index