Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Author: first_name: John Henry
last_name: Newman
Language: English
Year: 1878

After a long struggle against liberal tendencies in the Church of England and an unsuccessful attempt to establish the position of Anglicanism as a branch of historical Christianity whose doctrines could be proven to be identical with those of the primitive Church, John Henry Newman came to the painful realization that he could no longer remain a member of the Anglican Church.  Increasingly drawn to Catholicism, he was nevertheless repulsed by the idea that the Roman Church, while preserving man