A Grammar of Consent: The Existence of God in Christian Tradition

A Grammar of Consent broadens John Henry Newman’s argument for the existence of God to include more experiential materials reflecting two millenia of Christian philosophy. Nichols provides a beneficial corrective to a common contemporary narrowness in limiting experiential arguments to those dealing with some sort of distinctively religious experience. The book will be of interest to students and teachers in philosophy of religion, theology, history of ideas, and the wider philosophically and theologically interested public.

John Christopher ＂Aidan＂ Nichols is an English academic and Catholic priest. Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Reformation. He is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and is former Prior and current Sub-Prior of the Priory of St Michael the Archangel in Cambridge.