Editing Development of doctrine (section)

==Precursors==
In the 16th century, [[Erasmus]] controversially suggested, from historical evidence, the reality of the development of doctrine in some important areas: examples being [[papal supremacy]] ("I have never doubted about the sovereignty of the Pope, but whether this supremacy was recognised in the time of St. Jerome, I have my doubts"<ref name=gasquet>{{cite book |last1=Gasquet |first1=Francis Aidan |title=The Eve of the Reformation. Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII |date=1900 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/50328/pg50328-images.html#CHAPTER_VI |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|197}}) and the [[Trinity]] and [[filioque]] ("We (now) dare to call the Holy Spirit true God, proceeding from the Father and the Son, which the ancients did not dare to do."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Christ-Von Wedel |first1=Christine |title=Erasmus of Rotterdam: Advocate of a New Christianity |date=2013 |doi=10.3138/j.ctt5hjw2k.22 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjw2k.22 |publisher=University of Toronto Press}}</ref>).