J. H. Newman o przesłankach biblijnych Niepokalanego Poczęcia i roli Magisterium w spornych kwestiach doktrynalnych

Abstract

J. H. Newman's mariological doctrine, though it was set up in the previous century, remains in its asic assumptions coherent with the postulates of the VIII's chapter of Lumen gentium and Marialis cultus, which both appeal to the biblical, liturgical, ecumenical and anthropological way of Marian religiousness, taking the above-mentioned elements into account by the English convert was made against the background of some considerations within the range of biblical anthropology and soteriology rooted in the trinitarian tradition. Our Lady is presented here as the One who while being visited by the Holy Spirit accepted God's call directed to Her. She became the Mother of the Incarnate Word. Newman set up this doctrine both on the Bible premises and Tradition. The paper presents Newman's view points on the matter of argument dealing with the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, a necessity to exist within a Church, and the role played by the infallible authority of magisterium . A part from pointing to the soteriology of the New Testament as the basis for the dogmatic status of the Immaculate Conception, the paper presents also the way Newman motivated his arguments in favour of the doctrine. His motivation does not mean a definite proof of the thesis of the Immaculate Conception, but an attempt to free it from "an aura of some improbability".