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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... less certain , less immediate informants ? We have recourse to reason or authority to 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 ...
... less certain, ie»s immediate iitiorniaifis? Wc have recourse to reason or authority to 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 ...
... or again as a literature or philosophy , not certified in any way , much less guaranteed , to come from above , but one out of the various separate informa- tions about the Supreme Being and human duty , with 4 INTRODUCTION .
... less abandon , or tend to abandon the supernatural claims of Christianity ; so it need not detain us here . A second and more plausible bypothesis is that of the Anglican divines , who reconcile and bring into shape the exuberant ...
... less distinctness by Athenagoras , St. Irenæus , St. Clement , Tertullian , St. Hippolytus , Origen , and the two SS . Dionysii . This is pretty much the whole of the evidence . 14 . Perhaps it will be said we ought to take the Ante ...
Contents
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33 | |
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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 |