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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... Rome and her dependencies on our admiration , reverence , love , and gratitude , how could we withstand her , as we do ; how could we refrain from being melted into tenderness , and rushing into communion with her , but for the words of ...
... Rome , to appeal to past ages , or to some of them ; but Protestantism , as a whole , feels it , and has felt it . This is shown in the determination already referred to of dispensing with historical Christianity altogether , and of ...
... Rome also , but in the same sense it is irresistible against England . It strikes at Rome through England . It admits of being interpreted in one of two ways : if it be narrowed for the purpose of disproving the catho- licity of the ...
... Rome . " We confidently affirm , " he said in another publication , " that there is not an article in the Athanasian Creed con- cerning the Incarnation which is not anticipated in the controversy with the Gnostics . There is no question ...
... Rome . What we have a right to ask , if we are bound to act upon Vincent's rule in regard to the Trinitarian dogma , is a sufficient number of Ante - nicene statements , each distinctly antici- pating the Athanasian Creed . 11 . Now let ...
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 |