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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... , never- theless , these , on examination , will be found to arise from the nature of the case , and to proceed on a law , and with a harmony and a definite drift , and with an analogy to Scripture revelations , which , instead of.
... definite . And this one thing at least is certain ; whatever history teaches , whatever it omits , whatever it exaggerates or extenuates , whatever it says and unsays , at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism . If ever ...
... definite teaching from above , or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance , that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment indi- vidually to determine , what the revelation of ...
... definite than that which St. Justin was ready to concede to creatures T 15 . Thus much on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity . Let us proceed to another example . There are two doctrines . which are generally associated with the name of a ...
... definite statement about their teaching without going into a discussion of the subject . On the subject of Purgatory there were , to speak generally , two schools of opinion ; the Greek , which con- templated a trial of fire at the last ...
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 |