An Essay on the Development of Christian DoctrineStill considered essential reading for serious thinkers on religion more than a century and a half after it was written, this seminal work of modern theology, first published in 1845, presents a history of Catholic doctrine from the days of the Apostles to the time of its writing, and follows with specific examples of how the doctrine has not only survived corruption but grown stronger through defending itself against it, and is, therefore, the true religion. This classic of Christian apologetics, considered a foundational work of 19th-century intellectualism on par with Darwin's Origin of Species, is must reading not only for the faithful but also for anyone who wishes to be well educated in the fundamentals of modern thought. |
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... Arian ) , and another that the Son is equal to the Father , ( for so did the Tritheist ) , and another that there is but One God , ( for so did the Unitarian ) , - not enough that many attached in some sense a Threefold Power to the ...
... Arianism ; and St. Gregory is allowed by the same learned Father to have used language concerning our Lord , which he only defends on the plea of an economical object in the writer . St. Hippolytus speaks as if he were ignorant of 6 ...
... Arian . 12 . Moreover , it may be questioned whether any Ante- 8 " The authors who make the generation temporary , and speak not ex- pressly of any other , are these following : Justin , Athenagoras , Theophilus , Tatian , Tertullian ...
... Arians , pointedly refrained from doing so on an occasion on which his enemies were on the watch ; and that , when some Catholics found fault with him , St. Athanasius took his part . Could this possibly have been the conduct of any ...
... legitimately resulting from the doctrines originally professed , it is but reasonable to include 8 Arians , ch . i . sect . 3 [ p . 82 , ed . 3 ] . V these true results in the idea of the revelation itself SECT . II . ] 79 TO BE EXPECTED .
Contents
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CHAPTER III | 99 |
PAGE | 122 |
Conservative Action on its Past | 123 |
PART II | 167 |
33 | 177 |
75 | 265 |
The Historical Argument in behalf of the existing Developments | 313 |
CHAPTER VII | 323 |
Scripture and its Mystical Interpretation | 338 |
Additional Remarks | 353 |
CHAPTER IX | 383 |
CHAPTER X | 400 |
CHAPTER XII | 437 |
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine Blessed John Henry Newman,Aeterna Press Limited preview - 1949 |