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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... questions upon the fact , or 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 ...
... question of fact , and whatever be the violence or the exaggeration of writers like Chillingworth , if they have raised a real difficulty , it may claim a real answer , and we must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still ...
... question which the Apollinarian or the Nestorian heresy raised , which may not be decided in the words of Ignatius , Irenæus and Tertullian . " 4 3 4 * [ Ibid . p . 181. ] [ British Critic , July , 1836 , p . 193 Vid . supr . vol . i ...
... question is made up of a number of separate propositions , each of which , if maintained to the exclusion of the rest , is a heresy . In order then to prove that all the Ante - nicene writers taught the dogma of the Holy Trinity , it is ...
... questions upon which the world may now be said to be agreed ; e . g . the arianizing tone of Eusebius . * σχεδόν ταυτησὶ τῆς νῦν περιθυλλουμένης ἀσεβείας , τῆς κατὰ τὸ ̓Ανό μοιον λέγω , οὗτος ἐστὶν , ὅσα γε ἡμεῖς ἴσμεν , ὁ πρῶτος ...
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 |