---
title: 'Historical Development'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1849-09-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church History'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
scriptures:
- 'Revelation 21'
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Ephesians 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1849-historical-development
---

# Historical Development

Argues Christianity is an organic, historical development tested by Scripture as its fixed norm; development needs no infallible earthly head and prophecy points to the restitution of all things.

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