| From Bossuet to Newman Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chadwick, Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521336767 ISBN-13: 9780521336765 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1987 Annotation: The coming of modern historical research had religious consequences, especially in the more traditional churches to which history was very important and which themselves helped to create the historical sense. In this classic work, long unobtainable but now revised with a new introduction, Owen Chadwick traces the development of the notion that change in Christian doctrine was both possible and legitimate. Bossuet in the seventeenth century represented the opinion that Christian doctrine never or hardly changed: Newman in the second half of the nineteenth century saw that its expression necessarily changed in a changing society. This book shows how one opinion changed into the other, and explains the difficulties and tensions behind Newman's attempt to persuade an inherently conservative institution to face reality. In so doing it thus illuminates one vital aspect of the arrival into European thought of a distinct historical sensibility. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Historiography - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: 230.209 |
| LCCN: 86028389 |
| Series: Cambridge Paperback Library |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.55" W x 8.56" (0.91 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |