Round 100: Tossup 8

This person set forth what is now called the “dogmatic principle” within seven notes that ground valid development of doctrine. This person defined “illative sense” as the faculty allowing one to leap from converging probabilities to the certainty of faith, or “assent.” A book by this person describes how reading Augustine’s anti-Donatist words “Securus judicat orbis terrarum” caused him to abruptly abandon the concept of (*) via media, which he had promoted in a series of polemics with John Keble and E. B. Pusey. This person names most English-speaking Catholic campus (10[1])ministry centers. This soon-to-be Doctor of the Church, who was canonized in 2019, converted after writing the 90th of the Tracts for the Times for the High Church Oxford Movement. For 10 points, (-5[1])Apologia Pro Vita Sua is by (10[1])what (10[1])Victorian cardinal? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Saint John Henry Newman [or Cardinal Newman] (The first two sentences refer to Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine and A Grammar of Assent.)
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%75%0%62.50
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026250%0%50%132.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%0%50%117.50
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%0%0%111.67
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025475%0%0%116.67
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20251100%0%100%128.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025580%0%0%90.25
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%0%0%98.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%0%25%101.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%17%85.00
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025580%0%0%104.75
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/20252100%0%0%106.50