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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman
November 2010
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9781108021463

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    John Henry Newman (1801–1890) remains one of the best-known and influential English churchmen of the nineteenth century. Ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church in 1825, he converted to Roman Catholicism, being ordained as a priest and later appointed cardinal. His works include Grammar of Assent (1870) and Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–1866) as well as this Essay (1845), written in the midst of his own religious transformation. He discusses his theory of the development of Christian dogma: 'from the nature of the human mind, time is necessary for the full comprehension and perfection of great ideas … the longer time and deeper thought for their full elucidation'. By showing how fidelity to timeless truths coexisted in Christianity together with deeper and more developed understanding over time, Newman provides a helpful personal and theological apology for the teaching and practice of Catholicism against its detractors.

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    November 2010
    Paperback
    9781108021463
    476 pages
    216 × 140 × 27 mm
    0.6kg
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    Table of Contents

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    • Introduction
    • 1. On the development of ideas
    • 2. On the development of Christian ideas, antecedently considered
    • 3. On the nature of the argument in behalf of the existing developments of Christianity
    • 4. Illustrations of the argument in behalf of the existing developments of Christianity
    • 5. Illustrations continued
    • 6. Illustrations continued
    • 7. Illustrations continued
    • 8. Illustrations concluded.
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    • John Henry Newman