doctrine development conscience considered rela de palmer william fellow worcester college (1 resultados)

Hardcover. xvi, 340 p.; 23 cm. Conclusion of the preface, explaining why this work is incomplete: `One leading object of the following pages is, to examine and refute the unsafe theories of Development and Conscience put forth in the writings of Mr. Newman and Mr. Ward. To answer the entire of these works from point to point, would demand a space which would exceed all due limits; but when the whole design which the author has proposed to himself shall have been completed, he trusts that little in the way of argument will remain in the "Essay on Development," or "the Ideal of a Christian Church," which will not have been noticed. The design proposed consists of two Parts, the First including an examination of the theories of Development and Conscience recently propounded, together with an argument founded on them, against Romanism; the Second, comprising an argument in behalf of the Catholic system, as it stands distinguished from romanism on the one hand, and from Rationalism and Anarchy on the other; together with a vindication of this system, as held by our greatest Divines, against the principal objections which have been recently advanced by Latitudinarians, Sectarians, Eclectics, Mystics, and Romanists. The unexpected length, however, to which the work has extended, and the impossibility of completing the whole design in a single volume, has led to the separate publication of the First Part, which is not submitted to the reader; and which will, it is hoped, be followed, before long, by the remaining Part.' (p. viii f.) -- The Second Part was not published. Fair ex-lib. orig. brown cloth, lacks backstrip.