An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine Vol.2 [Annotated]

Christianity has been long enough in the world to
justify us in dealing with it as a fact in the world's
history. Its genius and character, its doctrines, precepts,
and objects cannot be treated as matters of private opinion
or deduction, unless we may reasonably so regard the
Spartan institutions or the religion of Mahomet. It may
indeed legitimately be made the subject-matter of theories ;
what is its moral and poKtical excellence, what its due -
location in the range of ideas or of facts which we possess,
whether it be divine or human, whether original or
eclectic, or both at once, how far favourable to civilization
or to literature, whether a religion for all ages or for a
particular state of society, these are questions upon the
fact, or professed solutions of the fact, and belong to the
province of opinion ; but to a fact do they relate, on an
admitted fact do they turn^ which must be ascertained as
other facts, and surely has on the whole been so ascertained,
unless the testimony of so many centuries is to go for
nothing. Christianity is no theory of the study or the
cloister. It has long since passed beyond the letter of
documents and the reasonings of individual minds, and
has become public property. Its *' sound has gone out
into all lands," and its " words unto the ends of the
world." It has from the first had an objective

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The book offers a great explanation of Christian Doctrines and their historical developments. John Henry Newman was a highly regarded theologian and a founder of the Oxford Movement. He began writing the book to prove the Anglican Church's position on faith was correct. After writing the book he could no longer remain an Anglican and entered the Catholic Church in 1845. Very well written and researched....must read for anyone looking to understand the roots of the Christian Faith.

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