An Essay on the Development of Christian DoctrineNewman, John Henry
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Newman, John Henry
Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Dogma, Development of
[364:1] Hist. t. 3, p. 312.
[364:2] Mem. Eccl. t. 6, p. 83.
[366:1] Galland. t. 3, p. 673, note 3.
[366:2] Vid. Preface to Oxford Transl. of Tertullian, where the
character of his mind is admirably drawn out.
[369:1] Infra, pp. 411-415, &c.
[370:1] Orig. c. Cels. vii. 63, viii. 17 (vid. not. Bened. in loc.),
August. Ep. 102, 16; Minuc. F. 10, and 32; Tertull. de Orat. fin. ad
Uxor. i. fin. Euseb. Hist. viii. 2; Clem. Strom. vii. 6, p. 846.
[370:2] Tertull. de Cor. 3; Just. Apol. i. 65; Minuc. F. 20; Julian ap.
Cyr. vi. p. 194, Spanh.
[371:1] Epp. 102, 18.
[371:2] Contr. Faust. 20, 23.
[371:3] Lact. ii. 15, 16; Tertull. Spect. 12; Origen, c. Cels. vii.
64-66, August. Ep. 102, 18; Contr. Faust. xx. 23; Hieron. c. Vigil. 8.
[372:1] Vit. Thaum. p. 1006.
[373:1] V. Const. iii. 1, iv. 23, &c.
[373:2] According to Dr. E. D. Clarke, Travels, vol. i. p. 352.
[376:1] De Imag. i. 24.
[377:1] Ibid. ii. 11. 14.
[378:1] Hom. xii. in Cor. 1, Oxf. Tr.
[378:2] Fleury, Hist. xx. 11, Oxf. Tr.
CHAPTER IX.
APPLICATION OF THE FOURTH NOTE OF A TRUE DEVELOPMENT.
LOGICAL SEQUENCE.
Logical Sequence has been set down above as a fourth test of fidelity in
development, and shall now be briefly illustrated in the history of
Christian doctrine. That is, I mean to give instances of one doctrine
leading to another; so that, if the former be admitted, the latter can
hardly be denied, and the latter can hardly be called a corruption
without taking exception to the former. And I use "logical sequence" in
contrast both to that process of incorporation and assimilation which
was last under review, and also to that principle of science, which has
put into order and defended the developments after they have been made.
Accordingly it will include any progress of the mind from one judgment
to another, as, for instance, by way of moral fitness, which may not
admit of analysis into premiss and conclusion. Thus St. Peter argued in
the case of Cornelius and his friends, "Can any man forbid water that
these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well
as we?"
Such is the series of doctrinal truths, which start from the dogma of
our Lord's Divinity, and again from such texts of Scripture as "Thou art
Peter," and which I should have introduced here, had I not already used
them for a previous purpose in the Fourth Chapter. I shall confine
myself then for an example to the instance of the developments which
follow on the consideration of sin after Baptism, a subject which was
touched upon in the same Chapter.
§ 1. _Pardons._
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