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The Arians of the Fourth Century was a revolutionary contribution to churchhistory challenging many of the assumptions of earlier Anglican scholars. JohnHenry Newmans account of the great struggle over Christian doctrine in thefourth century shows the first signs of his later views on development. It wasalso in many ways a tract for the times a warning to the Anglican Churchof the 1830s of the dangers of state interference in religious debate and ofthe need for theologically educated leadership.This book is taken from Newmans 1871 revision of the text. It contains someadditional material and a fuller apparatus of references. This present editionalso includes an introduction and notes which attempt to put the work into itscontext in the nineteenth century Church but also to explain how scholarshiphas altered our view of the subject matter. The Arians of the Fourth Centuryremains a startlingly original essay on the methods of intellectual historywithin the Christian church and a powerful statement by Newman of a vision ofthe church that is not yet fully in tune with Roman Catholic teaching yet isalso at odds with much of the traditional theology of the Church of England. «
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