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" 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 39
by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pages
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Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide

Nan Bauer Maglin, Alice Radosh - Business & Economics - 2003 - 398 pages
...changes that will inevitably occur with time. I will try to remember John Henry Newman's dictum that "here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often."6 Newman uses "perfect" in the sense of being done, completed. I am not done becoming myself;...
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The Day You Were Born: A Journey to Wholeness Through Astrology and Numerology

Linda Joyce - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 420 pages
...reveal it to the world in spite of the lure of luxury and pleasure and the expectations of others. "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." — Cardinal Newman. Capricorn/Sixes are social but not easy to know. The truth is, they may not know...
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Dynamic Equivalence: The Living Language of Christian Worship

Keith F. Pecklers - Religion - 2003 - 268 pages
...DYNAMIC EQUIVALENCE "Thi e One 1Q4Z-B5Y-WAWK "In a higher ivorld it is otherivise, But here beloiv to live is to change, And to be perfect is to have changed often." John Henry Cardinal Newman An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Chapter i, Section 1/7)...
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Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith ...

Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 2005 - 678 pages
...vindicate creeds by the very fact that they do change. "In a higher world it is otherwise," Newman writes, "but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect [ie, mature] is to have changed often."128 He is speaking there about the church and its doctrine,...
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God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to ...

David S. Katz - Religion - 2004 - 428 pages
...knows what it is, or what it is worth. It remains perhaps for a time quiescent: it tries, as it were, its limbs, and proves the ground under it, and feels...is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.32 It may still be a matter of debate whether his Essay was influenced by evolutionary ideas,...
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Women Bishops in the Church of England?

Church of England. House of Bishops - Religion - 2004 - 308 pages
...enters upon strange territory; points of controversy alter their bearing; parties rise and fall around it; dangers and hopes appear in new relations; and...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. 52 3.5.6 What is true of all other great ideas is also true of Christian doctrine, says Newman. It,...
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Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience

Philip C. Rule - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 200 pages
...life," would, in 1845, become the categorical and foundational statement for the Essay on Development: "In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often" (Dev, 40). That Newman's essay and his thesis about Christian doctrine "growing" or developing were...
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Living Baptism Daily

Lawrence E. Mick - Religion - 2004 - 130 pages
...requires a constant willingness to change. In the often quoted words of Cardinal John Henry Newman, "In a higher world, it is otherwise, but here below,...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." 1 If we find ourselves resisting change, we may well be resisting God's call to conversion and growth....
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Ignatian Humanism

Ronald Modras - Philosophy - 2010 - 362 pages
...spiritual tradition continued to develop. It illustrates Cardinal Newman's oft-quoted observation that "in a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."' The story of Ignatian spirituality is one of a pilgrimage not yet ended. The dynamic nature of Ignatian...
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Newman's Approach to Knowledge

Laurence Richardson - Philosophy - 2007 - 232 pages
...it.40 A few pages later he gives a synthesis of his approach to development in the following sentence: 'In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below...is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'41 Personal effort is needed if an individual is to progress 'in the circle of his knowledge'.42...
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