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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... heretical or philosophical sects made guesses approximating to it . Though the heretics also had their mysteries , yet , it is remarkable , that as regards the high doctrines of the Gospel , they in great measure dropped that restraint ...
... heretical confessions hitherto recounted were all Semi - Arian in character , as being intended more or less to justify the heretical party in the eyes of the Latins . But when this object ceased to be feasible , in Julian . ( vol . i ...
... heretical teachers , had holden together for the time , as a distinct body , till the cause of truth should regain its natural supremacy ; while others had admitted the usurping succession , which the Imperial will forced upon the ...