The Arians of the Fourth CenturyThe Arians of the Fourth Century was a revolutionary contribution to church history, challenging many of the assumptions of earlier Anglican scholars. John Henry Newman's account of the great struggle over Christian doctrine in the fourth century shows the first signs of his later views on development. It was also in many ways a "tract for the times" -- a warning to the Anglican Church of the 1830s of the dangers of state interference in religious debate and of the need for theologically educated leadership. This book is taken from Newman's 1871 revision of the text. It contains some additional material and a fuller apparatus of references. This present edition also includes an introduction and notes which attempt to put the work into its context in the nineteenth century Church, but also to explain how scholarship has altered our view of the subject matter. The Arians of the Fourth Century remains a startlingly original essay on the methods of intellectual history within the Christian church, and a powerful statement by Newman of a vision of the church that is not yet fully in tune with Roman Catholic teaching, yet is also at odds with much of the traditional theology of the Church of England. |
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... Holy Spirit in the Church ; -lastly , that among those converts , who were made . the chief instruments of the first propagation of the Gospel , or who are honoured with especial favour in Scripture , none are found who had not been ...
... holy children , sound in their creed , gifted with the Holy Spirit of God , I have received these things from the partakers of wisdom , accomplished , taught of God , and altogether wise . Along their track I have pur- sued my course ...
... Holy Ghost subsisting and existing9 . ' They said too , that they had not spoken of Three Gods , or Three Origins , nor would tolerate that statement or notion ; but acknowledged a Holy Trinity indeed , but only One Godhead , and One ...