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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... determine facts , when the senses fail us ; but with the senses we begin . We deduce , we form inductions , we abstract , we theorize from facts ; we do not begin with surmise and conjecture , much less do we look to the tradition of ...
... determine facts, when the senses fail us; but with the senses we begin. We deduce, we form inductions, we abstract, we theorize with surmise and conjecture, much less do we look to the i r rhe decree oi foreign teachers, ro determine ...
... determined that it was to be a power visible in the world and sovereign over it , characters which are accurately fulfilled in that historical Christianity to which we commonly give the name . It is not a violent assumption , then , but ...
... determine , but to retort is a poor reply in controversy to a question of fact , and whatever be the violence or the exaggeration of writers like Chillingworth , if they have raised a real difficulty , it may claim a real answer , and ...
... determine the dates at which the various changes from good to bad were introduced . Such a principle of demarcation , available for the purpose , they consider they have found in the dictum of Vincent of Lerins , that revealed and ...
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 |