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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... professed solutions of the fact , and belong to the province of opinion ; but to a fact do they relate , on an admitted fact do they turn , which must be ascertained as other facts , and surely has on the whole been so ascertained ...
... professed in the English school of divines ; and it contains a majestic truth , and offers an intelligible prin- ciple , and wears a reasonable air . It is congenial , or , as it may be said , native to the Anglican mind , which takes ...
... professed ; and it is fair to interpret the early Fathers by the 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 ...
... profess myself 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 ...
... profess it in common . Is it considered with reference to the precepts that are associated with its doctrines ? A law which is obligatory on a single indi- vidual , is so on all ; it ought to be promulgated , and it is our duty to ...
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 |