Development of Catholic Doctrine: Evolution, Revolution, or an Organic Process? (Biblia.com)

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C.S. Lewis, the famous Anglican writer, once wrote: “The very possibility of progress demands that there should be an unchanging element … the positive historical statements made by Christianity have the power … of receiving, without intrinsic change, the increasing complexity of meaning which increasing knowledge puts into them.” Doctrine clearly develops within Scripture—that’s the nature of...

Christ and the Trinity. But many aspects of these doctrines were developments, not explicitly found in the Bible. Indeed, there is a lot of Scripture that would indicate the Trinity and Christology (Jesus as God), but if one doesn’t attempt to put the verses together in a certain systematic way, it wouldn’t jump right out from Scripture. So for that reason the Church had to develop it—and usually in response to heretics. So, for example, the heretical Nestorians came around and claimed that Jesus

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