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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