History of Dogma, Volume 1
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- HARNACKS HISTORY OF DOGMA. VOL. I
- HISTORY OF DOGMA
- 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. I.
- VORWORT ZUR ENGLISCHEN AUSGABE.
- THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
- FROM THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
- CONTENTS
- I
- PROLEGOMENA TO THE DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA.
- II
- THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA.
- CHAPTER I
- PROLEGOMENA TO THE DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA. §1. The Idea and Task of the History of Dogma.
- 2. History of the History of Dogma.
- CHAPTER II
- THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA § 1. Introductory.
- § 2. The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to His own testimony concerning Himself.
- I. The Fundamental Features.
- II. Details.
- § 3. The Common Preaching concerning Jesus Christ in the First Generation of Believers.
- § 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.
- § 5. The Religious Conceptions and the Religious Philosophy of the Hellenistic Jews, in their significance for the later formulation of the Gospel.
- § 6. The Religious Dispositions of the Greeks and Romans in the first two centuries, and the current Græco-Roman Philosophy of Religion.
- Supplementary.
- DIVISION I.
- THE GENESIS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMA, OR THE GENESIS OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC DOGMATIC THEOLOGY, AND THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE.
- BOOK I.
- THE PREPARATION.
- 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 CATHOLICISM162 § 1. The Communities and the Church.
- § 2 The Foundations of the Faith.
- § 3. The Main Articles of Christianity and the Conceptions of Salvation. Eschatology.
- § 4. The Old Testament as Source of the Knowledge of Faith.214
- § 5. The Knowledge of God and of the World. Estimate of the World.
- § 6. Faith in Jesus Christ.
- § 7. The Worship, the Sacred Ordinances, and the Organisation of the Churches.
- Supplementary.
- 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
- MARCION'S ATTEMPT TO SET ASIDE THE OLD TESTAMENT FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY, TO PURIFY TRADITION AND TO REFORM CHRISTENDOM ON THE BASIS OF THE PAULINE GOSPEL
- CHAPTER VI.
- APPENDIX: THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS
- APPENDIX I.
- On the Conception of Pre-existence.
- APPENDIX II.
- Liturgy and the Origin of Dogma.
- APPENDIX III.
- NEOPLATONISM.
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