 In time it enters upon strange territory ; points of controversy alter their bearing ; parties rise and fall about it ; dangers and hopes appear in new relations, and old principles reappear under new forms ; it changes with them, in order to remain the...  An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - Page 39by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis J. Butler - Religion - 1994 - 276 pages
...Church: A View from Africa, Bishop Peter K. Sarpong 250 Foreword "In a higher world it is otherwise; bat here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. " — Cardinal John Henry Newman Discovering new ways to reassert the religious mission and spiritual... | |
 | Joanna Bogle - Catholic converts - 1994 - 100 pages
...Christianity, and to join the Church of Rome'.14 He is not the first to have fastened on the words: 'here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often',15 as reinforcement for his worst fears. Dr Packer has recently drawn the same conclusion that... | |
 | Mary Ellen Durbin - Religion - 1994 - 146 pages
...this means is that we need to rethink adulthood. All life is change. Cardinal Newman said it this way: "To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often." What are the changes or developmental stages of adulthood? I would characterize them as twofold. The... | |
 | James F. Keenan, SJ, Thomas A. Shannon - Religion - 1995 - 262 pages
...mutation; should not our morals, especially when the direction and the goal are provided by the Lord? "[H]ere below to live is to change. And to be perfect is to have changed often."46 Must we not, then, frankly admit that change is something that plays a role in Catholic moral... | |
 | Michael E. Allsopp, John J. O'Keefe - Religion - 1995 - 332 pages
...metanoia is a process, a continual progress in virtue, never perfect in this life.2 As Newman says, "here below to live is to change. And to be perfect is to have changed often."3 Here we come to the central text for this essay on VS. I will quote the passage before showing... | |
 | David Tracy - Religion - 1996 - 287 pages
...(46) Cf. John Henry Newman, An Essay in the Development of Doctrine (London: Toovey, 1905), p. 39: "In a higher world it is otherwise but here below...change and to be perfect is to have changed often." The introductory phrase makes it clear that Newman is not to be affirmed as a "pre-process" process... | |
 | Ronald D. Witherup - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 124 pages
...conversion, wrote in his book. An Essay on the Decelopment of Christian Doctrine, an often quoted line: "In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." Elsewhere in one of his sermons he indicates just how difficult the change necessary for conversion... | |
 | Jeane Eddy Westin - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 476 pages
...share my problems to safeguard my healthy eating plan. DECEMBER December 1 Where to Start and Stay To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. —-John Henry Cardinal Newman If you've been overweight for some time, your weight probably is the... | |
 | Melissa Kirschke Stockdale - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 420 pages
...Newman, Miliukov made it clear that Russia's protean nature was not, in itself, any cause for shame: "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 27 In his treatment of the Russian opposition, Miliukov undertook to explain why liberalism and socialism... | |
 | William McLoughlin, Jill Pinnock - Christian union - 1997 - 324 pages
...course, who gave us from his own wrestlings a study of development. And we must recognise with him that 'In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...change and to be perfect is to have changed often'. My radical students cherished those words, not realising where they led Newman! Certain considerations... | |
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