John Oman Research Articles

John Oman on feeling and theology

AbstractThis article revisits Oman's idea that an intuitive felt knowledge of the divine underlies the articulate knowledge found in faith and theology. Such feeling, Oman claims, is analogous to ordinary perception and gives rise to the attempt to evaluate, understand, and respond to the divine. Theology is the formalized attempt to respond to the intuition of the divine. The article argues that Oman's emphasis on the experiential and experimental character of theology is helpful, but that his analysis of the logic of faith requires reformulation.

George Grant and the theologia crucis: A theological modern agenda

This article looks the derivation of George Grant's "second" primal of Jerusalem in his critique of modernity presented in his doctoral dissertation on John Oman. In particular, it asks whether his theologia crucis, the presence of an offsetting "Otherness" to human self-interest and perspective, is consistent with both its Protestant origins and theological employment, or whether it is infected by that against which he wishes to vaccinate—modernity itself. In exploring this question, the motivations for Grant's refusal to interact with Karl Barth and neo-orthodoxy are also analyzed.

John Oman and his Doctrine of God. By Stephen Bevans, SVD. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 173. £27.95.

John Oman and his Doctrine of God. By Stephen Bevans, SVD. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 173. £27.95.

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access John Oman and his Doctrine of God. By STEPHEN BEVANS. Pp. ix+173. Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 521 41059 2. £27.95/$44.95. KEITH WARD KEITH WARD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, April 1994, Pages 424–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/45.1.424 Published: 01 April 1994

Re-Review: John Oman's Concerning the Ministry

Re-Review: John Oman's <i>Concerning the Ministry</i>

Re-Review: John Oman's Grace and Personality

Re-Review: John Oman's <i>Grace and Personality</i>

Neo-orthodoxy, liberalism and war: Karl Barth, P. T. Forsyth and John Oman 1914–18

There is a theological renaissance today’, proclaimed the American theologian Daniel Day Williams in 1952. ‘The rebirth of theology means a renewal of the effort to discover the foundations of the Christian life’. He maintained that following the publication of Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans in 1918 ‘there has been a deepening consciousness that there is a radical settlement to be made between Christianity and the thought and values of the modern world’. Williams’ assertion is better read as an indication of the mood of ‘pessimistic optimism’ manifested by many American theologians in the post world war two era than as an accurate description of the development of American theology from 1918. Moreover one man’s ‘renaissance’ is another man’s ‘reaction’, and there is something distinctly bizarre in the use of the former term in connection with a thinker like Karl Barth who devoted the most productive period of his life to total opposition to those intellectual assumptions which were characteristic of the sixteenth-century renaissance and were further developed in the European enlightenment. Nevertheless the historian of religion would be the last to deny the importance of investigating the factual basis of mythical beliefs, especially when they were as widely held as those put forward by Williams.

John Oman's Doctrine of the Christian Ministry

John Oman's Doctrine of the Christian Ministry

Shorter Notice: Religion and Reality: The Theology of John Oman. By F. G. Healey. Oliver and Boyd, 1965. ix+175 pp. 30s.; The Church in the Thought of Bishop John Robinson. By Richard P. McBrien. SCM Press, 1966. xv+160 pp. 30s.; History and Faith in the Thought of Alan Richardson. By John J. Navone, SJ. SCM Press, 1966. xiv+161 pp. 30s.;

Shorter Notice: <scp>Religion and Reality</scp>: The Theology of John Oman. By F. G. Healey. Oliver and Boyd, 1965. ix+175 pp. 30s.; <scp>The Church in the Thought of Bishop John Robinson</scp>. By Richard P. McBrien. SCM Press, 1966. xv+160 pp. 30s.; <scp>History and Faith in the Thought of Alan Richardson</scp>. By John J. Navone, SJ. SCM Press, 1966. xiv+161 pp. 30s.;

F. G. Healey. Religion and Reality, the Theology of John Oman. (Oliver and Boyd, 1965.) 30s.

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Religion and Reality: The Theology of John Oman. By F. G. Healey. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd. 1965. ix, 175 pp. 30s.)

Religion and Reality: The Theology of John Oman. By F. G. Healey. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd. 1965. ix, 175 pp. 30s.)

The Theological Methodology of John Oman and H. H. Farmer

Two successive theologians at Westminster College, Cambridge, John Oman and Herbert H. Farmer, represented a distinctive theological development which extended over fifty years of the present century. Oman with his original mind was the inaugurator; Farmer was the disciple who followed with great devotion, but who also exhibited independence and attempted to bring his teacher's insight into creative relation with later theological emphases, especially with the renewed interest in Christology.

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Religion and Reality: The Theology of John Oman. By F. G. HEALEY. Pp. ix+175. Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1965. 30s. T. M. KNOX T. M. KNOX Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume XVII, Issue 2, October 1966, Pages 546–550, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/XVII.2.546 Published: 01 October 1966

The Theology of John Oman

The Theology of John Oman

The Theology of John Oman

The Theology of John Oman

Revised Reviews: VI — John Oman's The Natural and the Supernatural

Revised Reviews: VI — John Oman's The Natural and the Supernatural

Paperbacks

Journal Article Paperbacks Get access Edifying Discourses. By SOREN KIERKEGAARD. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. xix + 265 pages. $1.45. On Religion. Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. By FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER. Translated by John Oman; introduction by Rudolf Otto. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. xxii + 287 pages. $1.60. ALTMAN K. SWIHART ALTMAN K. SWIHART Carthage College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXVII, Issue 1, January 1959, Pages 79-b–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXVII.1.79-b Published: 01 January 1959

A Dialogue with God. By John Oman. James Clarke and Co. 7s. 6d.

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BOOK NOTICES

Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Honest Religion. By JOHN OMAN. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. 198 pages. $2.25. CHARLIS S. BRADEN CHARLIS S. BRADEN Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume X, Issue 3, August 1942, Pages 175-b–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/X.3.175-b Published: 01 August 1942

The Message of John Oman

The Message of John Oman