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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... Moreover the statements of a particular father or doctor may certainly be of a most important character ; but one divine is not equal to a Catena . We must have a whole doctrine stated by a whole Church . The Catholic Truth in question ...
... 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 , and ...
... moreover , how much direct and literal testimony the Ante - nicene Fathers give , one by one , to the divinity of the Holy Spirit ? This alone shall be observed , that St. Basil , in the fourth century , finding that , if he distinctly ...
... Moreover , if the resistance of St. Cyprian and Firmilian to the Church of Rome , in the question of baptism by heretics , be urged as an argument against her primitive authority , or the earlier resistance of Polycrates of Ephesus ...
... Moreover , an idea not only modifies , but is modified , or or at least influenced , by the state of things in which it is carried out , and is dependent in various ways on the cir- cumstances which surround it . Its development ...
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 |