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It's been said that John Henry Newman "stands at the threshold of the modern as a Religious Socrates, the pioneer of a new philosophy of the individual person and personal life." Newman's personalism is situated in the way he contrasts the "theological intellect" and the "religious imagination." Newman pleads for the second option when he famously says, in words that John F. Crosby requires as the motto of his book, "I am definately not denying the real drive of the arguments in proof a God...but these do not warm me or enlighten me; they do not take away the winter of my desolation, or make the buds unfold and the leaves grow within me, and my moral being rejoice." In The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby instructs the listener how Newman confirms the life-giving religious knowledge that he seeks. He explores the "heart and soul" in Newman and explains what Newman was saying when he chose as his cardinal's motto, cor ad cor loquitur (heart and soul speaks to heart and soul). He explains what Newman means in saying that religious reality is sent not by debate but by "personal effect."
