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An Essay On The Development Of Christian Doctrine

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (July 25, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1428651365
  • ISBN-13: 978-1428651364
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsHistory is not a Creed or a Catechism
By john on April 7, 2012
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This is the eighth (and final) edition of "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" by John Henry Cardinal Newman from 1878, which includes "various important alterations... in the arrangement of its separate parts, and some, not indeed in its matter, but in its text." It was while the first edition of the work was in the process of being published in 1845 that Newman converted to Catholicism; "it was his intention and wish to have carried his Volume through the Press before deciding finally on this step. But when he had got some way in the printing, he recognized in himself a conviction of the truth of the conclusion to which the discussion leads, so clear as to supersede, further deliberation."

Newman's conversion was inevitable, as evidenced in the Introduction where he writes the lines chilling to any Christian not in communion with Rome:

"History is not a creed or a catechism, it gives lessons rather than rules; still no one can mistake its general teaching in this matter, whether he accept it or stumble at it. Bold outlines and broad masses of colour rise out of the records of the past. They may be dim, they may be incomplete; but they are definite. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this."

He follows just a few sentences later with his oft-quoted aphorism: "To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant."

This work is divided into two parts and the first, "Doctrinal Developments Viewed in Themselves", takes up the first third of the book.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starshistorical interest
By Amazon Customer on December 18, 2012
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Helps us to see how Newman set his feet on a path that led away from rationalism to orthodoxy of the Roman variety - with lessons for us today
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