Talk:Development of doctrine

Latest comment: 5 months ago by Whitjr in topic Development vs. evolution of doctrine

Connection to Thomas Bayes? edit

Why are the following articles included under "See also"? There is no visible connection or cross-reference between this article and any of them.

- Thomas Bayes

- Bayes' theorem

- Bayesian probability Carhutt (talk) 19:26, 30 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Development vs. evolution of doctrine edit

This section should either be removed or a good deal more effort put into it to differentiate and clarify the distinction. The distinction makes good sense from an abstract point of view but (1) it isn't clear that especially Newman was exactly one rather than the other, in part because he wrote to explore the idea, not to address it definitively; (2) while the term "development of doctrine" originated with Newman, the concept of doctrinal development is much older (e.g., Bonaventure's Lectures on the Six Day of Creation has been read as including a theory of doctrinal development; (3) is used here with a little too much of an apologetical rather than scholarly tone. Whitjr (talk) 15:11, 22 November 2023 (UTC)Reply