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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... CHAPTER VI . Application of the First Note of a true Development to the Existing Developments of Christian Doctrine : Preservation of its Type . 207 1 Section 1. The Church of the First Centuries Section xiv CONTENTS .
... true Christianity still to exist , it has but a hidden and isolated life , in the hearts of the elect , or again as a literature or philosophy , not certified in any way , much less guaranteed , to come from above , but one out of the ...
... true seed ' were all dead corpses ' -Nay dead and buried - and without grave- stone . The waters went over them ; there was not one of them left ; they sunk like lead in the mighty waters . ' Strange antitype , indeed , to the early ...
... true , if , in order that a doctrine be considered Catholic , it must be formally stated by the Fathers generally from the very first ; but , on the same understanding , the doctrine also of the apostolical succes- sion in the episcopal ...
... true also , or at least shall here be granted as true , that there is also a consensus in the Ante - nicene Church for the doctrines of our Lord's Consubstantiality and Coeternity with the Almighty Father . Let us allow that the whole ...
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 |