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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... passages to illustrate its wild interpretations of certain prophesies of St. Paul and St. John . It is melancholy to say it , but the chief , perhaps the only English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian ...
... passages ought to have more distinctly brought before his mind and more carefully weighed ; but he seems to have fancied that Bishop Bull proved the primitiveness of the Catholic doctrine concerning the Holy Trinity as well as that ...
... passage , " for Athanasius himself , or the compiler of the Athanasian Creed , to have delivered the doctrine of the Trinity in stronger terms than these . " Yet Tertullian must be considered heterodox on the * Ante - nicene Test . to ...
... 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 concede to creatures T 15 . Thus much on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity . Let us proceed to ...
... passages such as those just quoted . On the other hand , of a passage in St. Justin , Bishop Kaye remarks , " Le Nourry infers that Justin maintained the doctrine of Transubstantiation ; it might in my opinion be more plausibly urged in ...
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 |