ABSTRACT
The British protagonist of the Personal School is John Henry Newman. He says himself that Keble started him, and he early addressed himself to the philosophy of belief. The fifteen University Sermons preached between 1826 and 1843 are mainly occupied with it; but these should not be used except for elucidation or to catch a glimpse into the growth of his opinions, for, as he himself says, they were written before he had studied what either Anglican or Romanist theology had to say, and he made acquaintance with Coleridge’s writings only as they proceeded. After much further experience and study he ‘pursued the subject’ and brought out his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent in 1870.
