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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... says and unsays , at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism . If ever there were a safe truth , it is this . And Protestantism has ever felt it so . I do not mean that every writer on the Protestant side has felt it ...
... says says Dr. Burton , after quoting a 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 ...
... says that our flesh becomes incorrupt , and partakes of life , and has the hope of the resurrection , ' as being ... say that It is not a type of our Lord's Body , but His Body : and St. Cyprian uses language as fearful as can be spoken ...
... says that the Scripture calls wine a mystic symbol of the holy blood . . . . Clement gives various interpretations of Christ's expressions in John vi . respect- ing His flesh and blood ; but in no instance does he interpret them ...
... , and the numberless vicissitudes of the world . " Perhaps the Greeks would be still involved in 1 Hallam's Constit . Hist . ch . vii . p . 572 . the heresy of the Monophysites , " says Gibbon , SECT . II . ] 43 DEVELOPMENT IN IDEAS .
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 |