History of Dogma, Volume 1

by Adolf von Harnack

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY DIVISION.

[CHAPTER I.—PROLEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA]

[§ 1. The Idea and Task of the History of Dogma]

[Definition]

[Limits and Divisions]

[Dogma and Theology]

[Factors in the formation of Dogma]

[Explanation as to the conception and task of the History of Dogma]

[§ 2. History of the History of Dogma]

[The Early, the Mediæval, and the Roman Catholic Church]

[The Reformers and the 17^th Century]

[Mosheim, Walch, Ernesti]

[Lessing, Semler, Lange, Münscher, Baumgarten-Crusius, Meier]

[Baur, Neander, Kliefoth, Thomasius, Nitzsch, Ritschl, Renan, Loofs]

[CHAPTER II.—THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA]

[§ 1. Introductory]

[The Gospel and the Old Testament]

[The Detachment of the Christians from the Jewish Church]

[The Church and the Græco-Roman World]

[The Greek spirit an element of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine of Faith]

[The Elements connecting Primitive Christianity and the growing Catholic Church]

[The Presuppositions of the origin of the Apostolic Catholic Doctrine of Faith]

[§ 2. The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to His own Testimony concerning Himself]

[Fundamental Features]

[Details]

[Supplements]

[Literature]

[§ 3. The Common Preaching concerning Jesus Christ in the first generation of believers.]

[General Outline]

[The faith of the first Disciples]

[The beginnings of Christology]

[Conceptions of the Work of Jesus]

[Belief in the Resurrection]

[Righteousness and the Law, Paul]

[The Self-consciousness of being the Church of God]

[Supplement 1. Universalism]

[Supplement 2. Questions as to the value of the Law; the four main tendencies at the close of the Apostolic Age]

[Supplement 3. The Pauline Theology.]

[Supplement 4. The Johannine Writings]

[Supplement 5. The Authorities in the Church]

[§ 4. The current Exposition of the Old Testament and the Jewish hopes of the future in their significance for the Earliest types of Christian preaching]

[The Rabbinical and Exegetical Methods]

[The Jewish Apocalyptic literature]

[Mythologies and poetical ideas, notions of pre-existence and their application to Messiah]

[The limits of the explicable]

[Literature]

[§ 5. The Religious Conceptions and the Religious Philosophy of the Hellenistic Jews in their significance for the later formulation of the Gospel]

[Spiritualising and Moralising of the Jewish Religion]

[Philo]

[The Hermeneutic principles of Philo]

[§ 6. The religious dispositions of the Greeks and Romans in the first two centuries, and the current Græco-Roman philosophy of religion]

[The new religious needs and the old worship (Excursus on θεος)]

[The System of associations, and the Empire]

[Philosophy and its acquisitions]

[Platonic and Stoic Elements in the philosophy of religion]

[Greek culture and Roman ideas in the Church]

[The Empire and philosophic schools (the Cynics)]

[Literature]

[SUPPLEMENTARY.]

[(1) The twofold conception of the blessing of Salvation in its significance for the following period]

[(2) Obscurity in the origin of the most important Christian ideas and Ecclesiastical forms]

[(3) Significance of the Pauline theology for the legitimising and reformation of the doctrine of the Church in the following period]

[DIVISION I.—THE GENESIS OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMA, OR THE GENESIS OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC DOGMATIC THEOLOGY, AND THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE.]

[BOOK I. THE PREPARATION.]

[CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SURVEY]

[CHAPTER II.—THE ELEMENT COMMON TO ALL CHRISTIANS AND THE BREACH WITH JUDAISM]

[CHAPTER III. THE COMMON FAITH AND THE BEGINNINGS OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENTILE CHRISTIANITY AS IT WAS BEING DEVELOPED INTO CATHOLICISM]

[(1) The Communities and the Church]

[(2) The Foundations of the Faith; the Old Testament, and the traditions about Jesus (sayings of Jesus, the Kerygma about Jesus), the significance of the "Apostolic"]

[(3) The main articles of Christianity and the conceptions of salvation. The new law. Eschatology.]

[(4) The Old Testament as source of the knowledge of faith]

[(5) The knowledge of God and of the world, estimate of the world (Demons)]

[(6) Faith in Jesus Christ]

[Jesus the Lord.]

[Jesus the Christ]

[Jesus the Son of God, the Theologia Christi]

[The Adoptian and the Pneumatic Christology]

[Ideas of Christ's work]

[(7) The Worship, the sacred actions, and the organisation of the Churches]

[The Worship and Sacrifice]

[Baptism and the Lord's Supper]

[The organisation]

[SUPPLEMENTARY.]

[The premises of Catholicism]

[Doctrinal diversities of the Apostolical Fathers]

[CHAPTER IV.—THE ATTEMPTS OF THE GNOSTICS TO CREATE AN APOSTOLIC DOGMATIC, AND A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY; OR THE ACUTE SECULARISING OF CHRISTIANITY]

[(1) The conditions for the rise of Gnosticism.]

[(2) The nature of Gnosticism]

[(3) History of Gnosticism and the forms in which it appeared]

[(4) The most important Gnostic doctrines]

[CHAPTER V.—THE ATTEMPT OF MARCION TO SET ASIDE THE OLD TESTAMENT FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY, TO PURIFY THE TRADITION AND REFORM CHRISTENDOM ON THE BASIS OF THE PAULINE GOSPEL]

[Characterisation of Marcion's attempt]

[(1) His estimate of the Old Testament and the god of the Jews]

[(2) The God of the Gospel]

[(3) The relation of the two Gods according to Marcion]

[(4) The Christology]

[(5) Eschatology and Ethics]

[(6) Criticism of the Christian tradition, the Marcionite Church]

[Remarks]

[CHAPTER VI.—THE CHRISTIANITY OF JEWISH CHRISTIANS, DEFINITION OF THE NOTION JEWISH CHRISTIANITY]

[(1) General conditions for the development of Jewish Christianity]

[(2) Jewish Christianity and the Catholic Church, insignificance of Jewish Christianity, "Judaising" in Catholicism]

[Alleged documents of Jewish Christianity (Apocalypse of John, Acts of the Apostles, Epistle to the Hebrews, Hegesippus)]

[History of Jewish Christianity]

[The witness of Justin]

[The witness of Celsus]

[The Elkesaites and Ebionites of Epiphanius]

[Estimate of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Homilies, their want of significance for the question as to the genesis of Catholicism and its doctrine]

APPENDICES.

[I. On the different notions of Pre-existence.]

[II. On Liturgies and the genesis of Dogma.]

[III. On Neoplatonism]

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