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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... later centuries . Pro- testants can as little bear its Ante - nicene as its Post - tri- dentine period . I have elsewhere observed on this cir- cumstance : " So much must the Protestant grant that , if such a system of doctrine as he ...
... later , why we should admit some doctrines and not others , why we refuse the Creed of Pius IV . and accept the Thirty- nine Articles . 8 . Such is the rule of historical interpretation which has been professed in the English school of ...
... later . This is true , and admits of applica- tion to certain other doctrines besides that of the Blessed Trinity in Unity ; but there is as little room for such antecedent probabilities as for the argument from sugges- tions and ...
... later age . Further , Bishop Bull allows that " nearly all the ancient Catholics who preceded Arius have the appearance of being ignorant of the invisible and incomprehensible ( immensam ) nature of the Son of God ; " 3 an article ...
... later Church , and true as the dictum of Vincentius must be considered in the abstract , and possible as its application might be in his own age , when he might almost ask the primitive centuries for their testimony , it is hardly ...
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 |