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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... popes against popes , councils against councils , some fathers against others , the same fathers against themselves , a consent of fathers of one age against a consent of fathers of another age , the Church of one age against the Church ...
... Pope . It lays down a simple rule by which to measure the value of every historical fact , as it comes , and thereby it provides a bulwark against Rome , while it opens an assault upon Protestantism . Such is its promise ; but its ...
Cardinal John Henry Newman. licity of the Creed of Pope Pius , it becomes also an objec- tion to the Athanasian ; and if it be relaxed to admit the doctrines retained by the English Church , it no longer excludes certain doctrines of ...
... Pope's supremacy ? You accept the lesser evidence , you reject the greater . " 18 . In truth , scanty as the Ante - nicene notices may be of the Papal Supremacy , they are both more numerous and more definite than the adducible ...
... Pope Pius , is no fault of those who adopt it . No one has power over the issues of his principles ; we cannot manage our argu- ment , and have as much of it as we please and no more . An argument is needed , unless Christianity is to ...
Contents
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33 | |
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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 |