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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... Roman Church which will presently come into mention . And this is a point which the writer of the above passages ought to have more distinctly brought before his mind and more carefully weighed ; but he seems to have fancied that Bishop ...
... roman use of Quod semper , & c . , surely we ought not to be left for these great articles of doctrine to the testimony of a later age . Further , Bishop Bull allows that " nearly all the ancient Catholics who preceded Arius have the ...
... to pass ; and the African , resembling more nearly the present doctrine of the Roman Church . And so there were two principal views of Original Sin , the Greek and the African or Latin . Of the Greek , the INTRODUCTION . 21.
... of Christianity , as , at this day , the presence of Protestantism is said to repress , though for another reason , the exhibition of the Roman Catholic religion . On various grounds , then , it is certain that 28 INTRODUCTION .
... Roman Catholic doctrine need be supposed to have given a direction to the inquiry , so neither can a reception of that doctrine be immediately based on its results . It would be the work of a life to apply the Theory of Developments so ...
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 |