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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... Religion is in theory , its history , we are told , is its best refutation ; the inconsistencies , found age after age in its teaching , being as patent as the simultaneous contrarieties of religious opinion manifest in the High , Low ...
... religion of Mahomet . It may indeed legitimately be made the subject - matter of theories ; what is its moral and political excellence , what its due location in the range of ideas or of facts which we possess , whether it be divine or ...
... religions all together , religions at variance one with another , and claiming the same appellation , not because ... religion has gradually decayed or become hopelessly corrupt ; nay that it died out of the world at its birth , and ...
... religion to which the Apostles had converted them ; that the external continuity of name , profession , and com- munion , argues a real continuity of doctrine ; that , as Christianity began by manifesting itself as of a certain shape ...
... they had despaired of it . It is shown by the long neglect of ecclesiastical history in England , which prevails even in the English Church . Our popular religion scarcely recognizes the fact of the twelve INTRODUCTION . 7.
Contents
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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 |