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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... follow and are like Him , and the Prophetic Spirit . " A Unitarian might argue from this passage that the glory and worship which the early Church ascribed to our Lord was not more definite than that which St. Justin was ready to ...
... follow those Fathers who were before him ; and whom St. Austin did forsake , as I do him , in the question . " The same is asserted or allowed by Jansenius , Petavius , and Walch , ' men of such different schools that we may surely take ...
... follows upon Consecration ; and Consecration is the prerogative of Priests ; and Priests are made by Ordination ; and Ordination comes in direct line from the Apostles . Whatever be our other misfortunes , every link in our chain is ...
... follow upon it ; whereas the Greek " tyrant may be considered as included in the idea of a democracy . More- over a development will have this characteristic , that , its action being in the busy scene of human life , it cannot progress ...
... follows him ; in printing his name in large capitals , while the Holiest Names are in ordinary type , and in fixing his arms in churches instead of the Crucifix ; 1 moreover , perhaps , in placing " sedition , privy SECT . 11. ] 45 ...
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 |