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• W2915020625 abstract "Reviewed by: Éxperience spirituelle et conscience chez John Henry Newman by Romuald Paul Ebo Giulia Marotta Éxperience spirituelle et conscience chez John Henry Newman BY ROMUALD PAUL EBO Le Coudray-Macouard (France): Saint-Léger Éditions, 2017. 386 pages. 22 €. ISBN: 9782364522947. Experience, particularly spiritual experience, is not only the topic discussed in Fr. Ebo's volume, but also the context in which the work is embedded. The idea for this book was prompted by a seminar on Newman, which the author attended in 2012, and its writing progressed through his personal involvement with the Christian community within the Fon people of the Abomey town in Benin, formerly the capital of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey. The result is a monograph addressed to academics and graduate students in the field of spiritual theology, as well as the professional community of those concerned with pastoral care and spiritual counselling. The book is a revised form of Ebo's doctoral dissertation, which was defended at the Centre Sèvres, the Jesuit faculty of philosophy and theology in Paris. The language used is fairly accessible to non-specialists. However, the copious contents and the complex structure of the work, which holds together three parts (eight chapters), limit its readability and usability. The first part, divided in three chapters, is devoted to exploring a possible phenomenological explanation of the specifically Christian spiritual experience and the universal manifestation of personal conscience. In light of Newman's life and thought, the author aims to demonstrate the ultimate coincidence and correspondence of the two (97), by describing the gradual and natural (i.e. experiential) character of conscience. In the two chapters of Part II, Newman's understanding of conscience within the Christian spiritual experience becomes the core of Ebo's investigation, rather than a source of clarification and validation for his phenomenological approach. This analysis culminates in a comprehensive description of conscience, emphasizing the necessity to overcome a strictly moral approach—typical of a certain interpretation of Thomistic ethics (204)—in order to comprehend the personal, relational, and properly religious dimension of conscience. Although the expression Christian spiritual experience does not appear in Newman's writings (33, 215), Ebo underlines how its significance leads directly to a relational theological anthropology (228). This relational character of conscience is, in Ebo's view, what makes the Christian spiritual experience unassimilable and irreducible to Kantian or Buddhist ethics. [End Page 72] The following section (Part III) explores this theme further by elaborating a fully-fledged theology of conscience in and through Newman. Ebo's theology of conscience is, quite expectedly, not a branch of moral theology, but rather the root of any theology of the spiritual experience (214). In chapters six and seven, the author draws on Newman's Grammar to provide an account of the balance, often lived and portrayed as a clash, between the genesis of certitude from assent and the concrete experiential adventure of personal conscience, depending upon the progressive revelation and discovery of truth (244–5). Ebo identifies personal conscience, for both the individual and the community, as an interior gospel (320–1), a good news, which being a message, an acte de parole, cannot be received as one monolithic, overwhelming fact, but rather as a dialogic process. Although quantitatively small, the last chapter on the spiritual experience of the Christian community within the Fon people is the pivotal section of the book. Through his own direct knowledge of Benin's Vodun religious context, the author applies, and at the same time demonstrates, Newman's understanding of the exercise of conscience in the realm of natural religion. By presenting an in-depth study of this phenomenon, Ebo offers an illustration of the principles of natural religion as a preparation for Christianity, and indirectly alludes to a possibly analogous reading of the interior life of the natural human even in a secularized context (360–3). It is in this chapter that the work's subtitle (Éléments d'une théologie spirituelle de la conscience personnelle en contexte chrétien pour le monde d'aujourd'hui), with its focus on the dynamics of the contemporary world, clearly emerges. In sum, the backbone of this book is..." @default.
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