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St. Paul and Protestantism; with an intr. on Puritanism and the Church of ... - Page 146
by Matthew Arnold - 1875
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman - History - 1845 - 480 pages
...speech, according to the accident of the day of writing, or of the audience, yet it will be the same. And the more claim an idea has to be considered living,...eventful will be its course. Such is Christianity; and whatever has been said in the last chapter about the development of ideas generally, becomes of course...
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The Epistle to the Hebrews; the substance of 3 lects., on the foundation of ...

John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1846 - 244 pages
...into two Sections. The first treats of the antecedent Probability of Developments in Christianity. 1. The more claim an idea has to be considered living,...and the longer and more eventful will be its course. p. 95. (a) The Holy Scriptures cannot be said at once to determine the Christian doctrine without further...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 2

1846 - 578 pages
...corrections of many minds, and the illustrations of many trials.' — p. 35 — 7. And ' the more claim such an idea has to be considered living, the more various...eventful will be its course. Such is Christianity/ (p. 95.) which ' differs from other religions and philosophies, not in kind but in origin ; not in...
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman - Dogma, Development of - 1846 - 478 pages
...writing, or of the audience, yet it will be the same. And the more claim an idea has to be considered c living, the more various will be its aspects ; and...eventful will be its course. Such is Christianity; and whatever has been said in the last Chapter about the development of ideas generally, becomes of course...
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The Christian's monthly magazine and universal review, Volume 5

1846 - 702 pages
...according " to the accident of the day of writing, or of the audience, yet it will be " the same. " And the more claim an idea has to be considered living,...aspects ; and the more social and political is its na" ture, the more complicated and subtle will be its developments, and " the longer and more eventful...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 3

Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1846 - 560 pages
...identical with the thing itself vie are teaching And the more claim an idea has to be considered as living, the more various will be its aspects ; and the more social and political its nature, the more complicated and subtile will be its developments, and the longer and more eventful...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 3

Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1846 - 576 pages
...identical with the thing itself we are teaching And the more claim an idea has to be considered as living, the more various will be its aspects ; and the more social and political its nature, the more complicated and subtile will be its developments, and the longer and more eventful...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...when submitted to a multitude of minds;" justifies also a second remark of his, that " the more claims an idea has to be considered living, the more various will be its aspects; " and also still another, that "it is probable that a given opinion, as held by several individuals, even...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 21; Volume 24

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 806 pages
...not being led on to its spirit, — that is, its development. The Gospel is the development of tho Law- ; yet what difference seems wider than that which...course. Such is Christianity." And yet once more: "It maybe objected that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine its doctrine...
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Essays on the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the West of ...

Earl John Russell Russell - Christianity - 1873 - 398 pages
...precisians in their obedience to the letter; He condemned them for not being led on to its spirit—that is, its development. The Gospel is the development...eventful will be its course. Such is Christianity.' And once more : ' It may be objected that inspired documents, such as the Holy Scriptures, at once determine...
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