[NEWMAN'S] PREFACE xxxvii
PART I. DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENTS VIEWED IN THEMSELVES 1
INTRODUCTION 3
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS 31
1. The Process of Development in Ideas 31
2. The Kinds of Development in Ideas 38
II. THE ANTECEDENT ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF DEVELOPMENTS IN CHRISTIAN
DOCTRINE 51
1. Developments to be expected 51
2. An infallible Developing Authority to be expected 69
3. The existing Developments of Doctrine the probable
Fulfilment of that Expectation 85
III. THE HISTORICAL ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF THE EXISTING
DEVELOPMENTS 92
1. Method of Proof 92
2. State of the Evidence 102
IV. INSTANCES IN ILLUSTRATION 113
1. Instances cursorily noticed 114
1. Canon of the New Testament 115
2. Original Sin 117
3. Infant Baptism 118
4. Communion in one kind 120
5. The Homousion 124
2. Our Lord's Incarnation, and the dignity of
His Mother and of all Saints 125
3. Papal Supremacy 138
PART II. DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENTS VIEWED RELATIVELY TO
DOCTRINAL CORRUPTIONS 155
V. GENUINE DEVELOPMENTS CONTRASTED WITH CORRUPTIONS 157
1. First Note of a genuine Development of an
Idea: Preservation of its Type 159
2. Second Note: Continuity of its Principles 165
3. Third Note: Its Power of Assimilation 172
4. Fourth Note: Its Logical Sequence 176
5. Fifth Note: Anticipation of its Future 181
6. Sixth Note: Conservative Action upon its Past 185
7. Seventh Note: Its Chronic Vigour 189
VI. APPLICATION OF THE FIRST NOTE OF A TRUE DEVELOPMENT
TO THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENTS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE:
PRESERVATION OF ITS TYPE 192
1. The Church of the First Centuries 193
2. The Church of the Fourth Century 230
3. The Church of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 253
VII. APPLICATION OF THE SECOND: CONTINUITY OF ITS
PRINCIPLES 301
1. Principles of Christianity 301
2. Supremacy of Faith 304
3. Theology 313
4. Scripture and its Mystical Interpretation 315
5. Dogma 323
6. Additional Remarks 329
VIII. APPLICATION OF THE THIRD: ITS ASSIMILATIVE POWER 332
1. The Assimilating Power of Dogmatic Truth 334
2. The Assimilating Power of Sacramental Grace 344
IX. APPLICATION OF THE FOURTH: ITS LOGICAL SEQUENCE 358
1. Pardon 359
2. Penances 360
3. Satisfactions 361
4. Purgatory 362
5. Meritorious Works 367
6. The Monastic Rule 369
X. APPLICATION OF THE FIFTH: ANTICIPATION
OF ITS FUTURE 374
1. Resurrection and Relics 374
2. The Virgin Life 381
3. Cultus of Saints and Angels 383
4. Office of the Blessed Virgin 388
XI. APPLICATION OF THE SIXTH: CONSERVATIVE
ACTION ON ITS PAST 392
1. Instances cursorily noticed 393
2. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin 398
XII. APPLICATION OF THE SEVENTH: ITS
CHRONIC VIGOUR 409
APPENDIX
Newman's Revisions in the Essay on the Development of Christian
Doctrine, by Ottis Ivan Schreiber 417
INDEX 437