ABSTRACT
Modernity was part of the world in which John Henry Newman was raised. Two primary themes of modernity suggest some of the dangers and the possible strengths it presented to the Catholic tradition. Newman's theology and memory have been highly honored by a great variety of Roman Catholics, not only in papal praise and academic symposia, but also in such events as the official declaration, in August of 1990, of his "holiness". In presenting the model of development, Newman was insightful if not also revolutionary. The Development of Doctrine is a book filled with a host of insights and presuppositions. Unlike the case in Anglicanism, Newman saw that doctrine was neither demeaned nor neglected in Roman Catholicism. Newman's was a great improvement over the classical and traditional Catholic model of doctrinal change: the notion of a logical "unfolding" from an unchanging text or deposit.
