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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... divine or human , whether original or eclectic , or both at once , how far favourable to civilization or to literature , whether a religion for all ages or for a particular state of society , these are questions upon the fact , or ...
... divine efficacy of the Scriptures as the one appointed instrument of religious teaching ; and let him consider how far Antiquity , as it has come down to us , will counte- nance him in it . No ; he must allow that the alleged deluge has ...
... divine is not equal to a Catena . We must have a whole doctrine stated by a whole Church . The Catholic Truth in question is made up of a number of separate propositions , each of which , if maintained to the exclusion of the rest , is ...
... Divine Circumincessio , the most distinctive portion of the Catholic doctrine , and the unity of power , or again , of substance , are declared with more or less distinctness by Athenagoras , St. Irenæus , St. Clement , Tertullian , St ...
... Divine worship , this is doubtless an important truth ; but then it is true also that the writers of the fourth and fifth centuries fearlessly assert , or frankly allow that the prerogatives of Rome were derived from apostolic times ...
Contents
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33 | |
55 | |
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 |