ABSTRACT
Newman seemed partially aware that his shocking disjunction and his insistence on logic would appear to be a trick of false rhetoric designed to frighten or force others to a decision for Catholicism. Jean Guy Saint-Arnaud has pointed to the radical religious choices required in the New Testament, especially by St. Luke, as a source for Newman's later disjunction between atheism and Catholicism. Pre-Catholic, partial forms of Newman's great disjunction appeared in some of his most significant works of the 1830's and 1840's. His anxiety in the Oxford University Sermons with the erosions of faith caused by Liberalism is well known. James Joyce, an admirer of Newman's prose, created in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a young hero who has abandoned his Catholic faith. A theological rejection of Newman's disjunction came from George Tyrrell, who as a Jesuit priest greatly admired Newman's developmental concept of Christianity.
