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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... - theless , these , on examination , will be found to arise from the nature of the case , and to proceed on a law , and with a harmony and a definite drift , and with an analogy to Scripture revelations , which , instead of.
... nature or in the world . 3 . All such views of Christianity imply that there is no sufficient body of historical ... natural hypotheses , the most agreeable to our mode of proceeding in parallel cases , and that which takes pre- cedence ...
... natural than that divines and bodies of men should speak , sometimes from themselves , sometimes from tradition ? what more natural than that individually they should say many things on impulse , or under excitement , or as conjectures ...
... nature of the case , a condition which never can be satisfied as fully as it might have been . It admits of various and unequal application in various instances ; and what degree of application is enough , must be decided by the same ...
Cardinal John Henry Newman. its agreement with the analogy of nature ; but it affords a ready loophole for such as do not wish to be persuaded , of which both Protestants and Romanists are not slow to avail themselves . " This surely is ...
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 |