The Doctrine Of The Church A Historical Monograph With A Full Bibliography Of The Subject

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Excerpt from The Doctrine of the Church: A Historical Monograph; With a Full Bibliography of the Subject While controversial treatises on the Church, of every variety of merit and representing every shade of opinion, abound, a special History of the Doctrine of the Church has not, hitherto, it is believed, appeared in any language. In attempting to supply this deficiency, the author has recorded facts and opinions as he found them, without regard to their bearing upon controverted questions of our own time. Compiled with no polemical purpose, the present work simply aims to embrace, in a single volume of moderate size, the whole body of authority, patristic, mediaeval, Romanist, and Protestant - Lutheran, Reformed, and particularly Anglican - touching the nature, constitution, and powers of the Christian Church. Partiality, or one-sidedness of quotation, as exemplified in numerous catenae and counter-catenae of controversial writers, is a well-known standing ground of complaint, going far to render the argument from authority practically worthless. Hence the compiler esteems it especially important to assure the reader that the following record contains all that has come to the writer's knowledge, after prolonged research, that can be considered necessary to a correct and adequate view of opinions respecting the nature and constitution of the Church, which are regarded as authoritative by the chief parties to the inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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