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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... theologians , but to those who as yet are not even Catholics , and who , as they read history , would scoff at any defence of Catholic doctrine which did not go the length of covering admissions in matters of fact as broad as those ...
... Theology • § 4. Scripture and its Mystical Interpretation 5. Dogma § 6. Additional Remarks • • CHAPTER VIII . PAGE 208 248 273 323 323 • • 326 336 338 • • . 346 353 Application of the Third : its Assimilative Power § 1. The Assimilating ...
... theology . He elsewhere says : " What there is not the shadow of a reason for saying that the Fathers held , what has not the faintest pretensions of being a Catholic truth , is this , that St. Peter or his successors were and are ...
... theology at all . Such is the incomplete- ness of the extant teaching of these true saints , and , in their day ... theological authors of the Ante - nicene centuries , Tertullian , Origen , and , we may add , Eusebius , though he lived ...
... theology , or into a ritual , according to its capabili- ties and this body of thought , thus laboriously gained , will after all be little more than the proper representative of one idea , being in substance what that idea meant from ...
Contents
3 | |
33 | |
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 |