History of Dogma, Volume 2
Adolf von Harnack
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History of Dogma, Volume 2
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HISTORY OF DOGMA
BY
DR. ADOLPH HARNACK
ORDINARY PROF. OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, BERLIN
TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION
BY
NEIL BUCHANAN
VOL. II.
CONTENTS
DIVISION I
BOOK II.
THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORICAL SURVEY.
I. FIXING AND GRADUAL SECULARISING OF CHRISTIANITY AS A CHURCH
CHAPTER II
THE SETTING UP OF THE APOSTOLIC STANDARDS FOR ECCLESIASTICAL CHRISTIANITY. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.20
A. The Transformation of the Baptismal Confession into the Apostolic Rule of Faith.
B. The designation of selected writings read in the churches as New Testament Scriptures or, in other words, as a collection of apostolic writings.67
C. The transformation of the episcopal office in the Church into an apostolic office. The history of the remodelling of the conception of the Church.130
CHAPTER III.
CONTINUATION. THE OLD CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW CHURCH.
ADDENDA.
EXCURSUS TO CHAPTERS II. AND III.
CATHOLIC AND ROMAN.299
II. FIXING AND GRADUAL HELLENISING OF CHRISTIANITY AS A SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE
CHAPTER IV.
ECCLESIASTICAL CHRISTIANITY AND PHILOSOPHY. THE APOLOGISTS.
1. Introduction.340
2. Christianity as Philosophy and as Revelation.
3. The doctrines of Christianity as the revealed and rational religion.
Interpretation and Criticism, especially of Justin's Doctrines.
CHAPTER V.
THE BEGINNINGS OF AN ECCLESIASTICO-THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AND REVISION OF THE RULE OF FAITH IN OPPOSITION TO GNOSTICISM ON THE BASIS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF THE APOLOGISTS: MELITO, IRENÆUS, TERTULLIAN, HIPPOLYTUS, NOVATIAN.460
1. The theological position of Irenæus and the later contemporary Church teachers.
2. The Doctrines of the Church.
3. Results to ecclesiastical Christianity.
CHAPTER VI.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION INTO A PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, OR THE ORIGIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY AND DOGMATIC OF THE CHURCH.
1. The Alexandrian Catechetical School. Clement of Alexandria.656
2. The system of Origen.679
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