Pantheistic Dilemmas And Other Essays in Philosophy And Religion
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She asserts that there has been no progress, no increase, no variation of faith; that what she beheves and teaches now is precisely what she has always taught from the first; that a new definition imphes no improved imderstanding of the faith, but is to be rated simply as a practical expedient against the novel expressions of the enemies of religion."^^ This language put the conservative standpoint in the crassest form, but it may serve to indicate the recoil against Newman's teaching on doctri...nal development that was felt in minds accustomed to take at their face value the assumptions of popes and councils on the antiquity of all the articles of the accepted creed. Not only the general contention of Newman relative to doctrinal development, but various details in his treatment of the subject were calculated to afflict strict traditionalists. It was scarcely agreeable to them to be told that Scripture, taken in its plain sense, afforded no »* BwWBgOB'g Quarterly Review, Juljr, 1^9, 196 PANTHEISTIC DILEMMAS adequate basis for the doctrinal structure of Rome, as they were in effect told in this dec- laration: "It may almost be laid down as an historical fact, that the mystical interpreta- tion and orthodoxy will stand and fall to- gether."^' In respect of the papacy it could hardly be otherwise than disquieting to read that "a pope would not arise but in proportion as the church was consoKdated";^* or that "Christianity developed in the form, first, of a Catholic, then of a papal church."^^ On the subject of the Virgin Mary's rightful position, it was not exactly pleasant to be reminded that "there was in the first ages no public and ecclesiastical recognition of the place which St.
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