Dr. Paul Shrimpton from Oxford, England discusses a sermon offering a central claim of the Oxford Movement. Newman opens by moving from a wide seep of Christian history to the particulars of personalism showing us that ultimately truth is propagated over time by the sharing of lives. The directives of scripture must be lived to have influence on others. Errors in defining truth readily take the upper hand since the delicate matters about God often rest in broad non-specifics where words can’t fully transmit divine truth. Since truth is found through the assemblage of scattered evidence over time it is best upheld by the personal witness of others. With that understanding Newman antcipates Vatican II’s call to universal evangelization through a sacramental personal interaction. 

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