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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... received at Nicea as the special symbol of Catholicism against Arius . " Again , the six great Bishops and Saints of the Ante- nicene Church were St. Irenæus , St. Hippolytus , St. Cyprian , St. Gregory Thaumaturgus , St. Dionysius of ...
... received and transmitted by minds not inspired and through media which were human , have required only the longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation . This may be called the Theory of Development of Doctrine ; and ...
... received passively in this or that form into many minds , but it becomes an active principle within them , leading them to an ever - new contemplation of itself , to an application of it in various directions , and a propagation of it ...
... received tone of thought into which it comes , or depraved by the intrusion of foreign principles , or at length shattered by the development of some original fault within it . 7 . But whatever be the risk of corruption from intercourse ...
... away ; others gain a footing , and are ultimately received as truths . Courts of law , Parliament- 3 Times newspaper of March , 1845 . ary proceedings , newspapers , letters and other posthumous documents 46 [ CH . 1 . ON THE KINDS OF.
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 |