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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... thing at least is certain ; whatever history teaches , whatever it omits , whatever it exaggerates or extenuates , whatever it says and unsays , at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism . If ever there were a safe truth ...
... things on impulse , or under excitement , or as conjectures , or in ignorance ? what more certain than that they must all have been instructed and catechized in the Creed of the Apostles ? what more evident than that what was their own ...
... things , and the host of those other good Angels , who follow and are like Him , and the Prophetic Spirit . " A Unitarian might argue from this passage that the glory and worship which the early Church ascribed to our Lord was not more ...
... things , an earthly and an heavenly : ' 3 perhaps Origen , and perhaps Magnes , after him , 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 , of those who profane ...
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 |