The Development of Religious Error

Name: The Development of Religious Error
Author: John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman

Newman's 1885 reply, in the Contemporary Review, to Principal Fairbairn's charge that his thought rests on an underlying scepticism, with the sections he appended to it in Stray Essays on Controversial Points (1890). Newman explains how, in his view, religious truth is kept by authority while error grows by private judgment, and answers the charge of philosophical scepticism.

Source: 2 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's own notes are kept as footnotes. Fairbairn's two articles and Barry's reply, which share the Newman Reader's index, are by others and are left out. Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.