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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

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The essay examines how Christian doctrine can legitimately change over time by treating doctrinal growth as an organic process in which implications of the original revelation are gradually unfolded and expressed. It advances philosophical and historical arguments for expecting such development, proposes criteria to distinguish authentic doctrinal growth from corruption or novelty, and tests those criteria against illustrative cases from the church's past. The argument holds that coherent, law-governed developments that meet these tests represent continuity with the original faith and imply an authoritative principle guiding doctrinal evolution.

[442:1] Euseb. Hist. iv. 7, ap. Church of the Fathers [Historical Sketches, vol. i. p. 408].


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Pages xii, xvii, 2, 166, and 168 are blank in the original.

The abbreviations i. e. and e. g. have been spaced throughout the text for consistency.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 5: or the vicissitudes[original has vicissisudes] of human affairs

Page 20: St. Justin was ready to concede to creatures.[period missing in original]

Page 39: but is modified, or[original has or or] at least influenced

Page 100: professes to accept,[original has period] and which, do what he will

Page 102: and more explicit than the text.[period missing in original]

Page 118: which is unsuitable to the Ante-nicene[original has Antenicene] period

Page 133: almost universality in the primitive Church.[133:1][footnote anchor missing in original—position verified in an earlier edition]

Page 172: whether fairly or not does not interfere[original has interefere]

Page 227: a good-humoured superstition[original has supersition]

Page 288: He explained St. Thomas's[original has extraneous comma]

Page 306: of Himeria in Osrhoene[original has Orshoëne]

Page 309: During the interval, Dioscorus[original has Discorus] was tried

Page 320: to contain scarcely[original has scarely] a single inhabitant

Page 336: derive its efficacy from human faith."[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 344: orthodoxy will stand or fall together.[period missing in original]

Page 365: true Unitarianism of St.[period missing in original] Augustine.

Page 416: as it is said in the Apocalypse,[original has extraneous quotation mark] "The dragon

[13:2] British Critic, July, 1836, p. 193.[period missing in original]

[16:2] λέγω, οὗτος ἐστὶν[original has ἑστὶν], ὅσα γε ἡμεῖς

[18:3] Basil,[original has period] ed. Ben.[period missing in original] vol. 3,[comma missing in original] p. xcvi.

[81:2] Essay on Assent, ch. vii. sect. 2.[period missing in original]

[148:1] In Psalm 118, v. 3,[original has period] de Instit. Virg. 50.

[162:1] Serm.[period missing in original] De Natal. iii. 3.

[213:1] p. 296, t. 5, mem. p. 63, t. 16,[comma missing in original] mem. p. 267

[216:1] Sueton. Tiber.[period missing in original] 36

[234:3] [footnote number missing in original] Acad. Inscr. ibid.

[235:1] Gibbon, Hist. ch.[period missing in original] 16, note 14.

[237:2] In hon. Rom. 62.[original has comma] In Act. S. Cypr. 4

[259:1] Hær. 42,[original has period] p. 366.

[280:1] De Gub.[period missing in original] D. iv. p. 73.

[288:1] Lengerke, de Ephrem[original has extraneous period] Syr. pp. 73-75.

[302:2] overthrow of all heresy, especially the Arian,[original has period]

[331:2] Vid. also supr.[period missing in original] p. 256.

[369:1] Infra,[original has period] pp. 411-415, &c.

[371:1] Epp.[period missing in original] 102, 18.

[371:2] Contr. Faust.[original has comma] 20, 23.

[371:3] August.[letter "s" not printed in original] Ep. 102, 18

[399:1] Rosweyde,[original has period] V. P. p. 618.

[442:1] Euseb.[period missing in original] Hist. iv. 7