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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... whole world ? He that loveth father or mother more than Me , is not worthy of Me . ' How could we learn to be severe , and execute judgment , but for the warning of Moses against even a divinely - gifted teacher who should preach new ...
... whole been so ascertained , unless the testimony of so many centuries is to go for nothing . Christianity is no theory of the study or the cloister . It has long since passed beyond the letter of documents and the reasonings of ...
... whole , feels it , and has felt it . This is shown in the determination already referred to of dispensing with historical Christianity altogether , and of forming a Christianity from the Bible alone : men never would have put it aside ...
... whole field of his- tory , authoritative doctrine from opinion , rejecting what is faulty , and combining and forming a theology . That Christianity is what has been held always , everywhere , and by all , " certainly promises a ...
... whole of Christendom for their one diocese in a way in which other Apostles and Bishops had and have not . " Most true , if , in order that a doctrine be considered Catholic , it must be formally stated by the Fathers generally from the ...
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 |