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the Catholic Church as capable of being a
support to society and the state; Addenda I. The Priesthood; Addenda II.
Sacrifice; Addenda III. Means of Grace. Baptism and the Eucharist;
Excursus to Chapters II. and III.--Catholic and Roman.
II. FIXING AND GRADUAL HELLENISING OF CHRISTIANITY
AS A SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE
CHAPTER IV.
--Ecclesiastical Christianity and Philosophy; The Apologists
1. Introduction

The historical position of the Apologists; Apologists and Gnostics;
Nature and importance of the Apologists' theology.
2. Christianity as Philosophy and as Revelation
Aristides; Justin; Athenagoras; Miltiades, Melito; Tatian; Pseudo-Justin,
Orat. ad Gr.; Theophilus; Pseudo-Justin, de Resurr.; Tertullian and
Minucius; Pseudo-Justin, de Monarch.; Results.
3. The doctrines of Christianity as the revealed and rational religion
Arrangement; The Monotheistic Cosmology; Theology; Doctrine of the
Logos; Doctrine of the World and of Man; Doctrine of Freedom and
Morality; Doctrine of Revelation (Proofs from Prophecy); Significance
of the History of Jesus; Christology of Justin; 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
1. The theological position of Irenæus and of the later contemporary
Church teachers
Characteristics of the theology of the Old Catholic Fathers, their
wavering between Reason and Tradition; Loose structure of their
Dogmas; Irenæus' attempt to construct a systematic theology and his
fundamental theological convictions; Gnostic and anti-Gnostic features
of his theology; Christianity conceived as a real redemption by Christ
(recapitulatio); His conception of a history of salvation; His historical
significance: conserving of tradition and gradual hellenising of the Rule
of Faith.
2. The Old Catholic Fathers' doctrine of the Church

The Antithesis to Gnosticism; The "Scripture theology" as a sign of the
dependence on "Gnosticism" and as a means of conserving tradition;
The Doctrine of God; The Logos Doctrine of Tertullian and Hippolytus;
(Conceptions regarding the Holy Spirit); Irenæus' doctrine of the Logos;
(Conceptions regarding the Holy Spirit); The views of Irenæus
regarding the destination of man, the original state, the fall and the
doom of death (the disparate series of ideas in Irenæus; rudiments of
the doctrine of original sin in Tertullian); The doctrine of Jesus Christ
as the incarnate son of God; Assertion of the complete mixture and
unity of the divine and human elements; Significance of Mary;
Tertullian's doctrine of the two natures and its origin; Rudiments of this
doctrine in Irenæus; The Gnostic character of this doctrine; Christology
of Hippolytus; Views as to Christ's work; Redemption, Perfection;
Reconciliation; Categories for the fruit of Christ's work; Things
peculiar to Tertullian; Satisfacere Deo; The Soul as the Bride of Christ;
The Eschatology; Its archaic nature, its incompatibility with
speculation and the advantage of connection with that; Conflict with
Chiliasm in the East; The doctrine of the two Testaments; The
influence of Gnosticism on the estimate of the two Testaments, the
complexus oppositorum; the Old Testament a uniform Christian Book
as in the Apologists; The Old Testament a preliminary stage of the New
Testament and a compound Book; The stages in the history of salvation;
The law of freedom the climax of the revelation in Christ.
3. Results to Ecclesiastical Christianity, chiefly in the West, (Cyprian,
Novation)
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: Clement and Origen
(1) The Alexandrian Catechetical School and Clement of Alexandria
Schools and Teachers in the Church at the end of the second and the
beginning of the third century; scientific efforts (Alogi in Asia Minor,

Cappadocian Scholars, Bardesanes of Edessa, Julius Africanus,
Scholars in Palestine, Rome and Carthage); The Alexandrian
Catechetical School. Clement; The temper of Clement and his
importance in the History of Dogma; his relation to Irenæus, to the
Gnostics and to primitive Christianity; his philosophy of Religion;
Clement and Origen
(2) The system of Origen
Introductory: The personality and importance of Origen; The Elements
of Origen's theology; its Gnostic features; The relative view of Origen;
His temper and final aim: relation to Greek Philosophy; Theology as a
Philosophy of Revelation, and a cosmological speculation; Porphyry on
Origen; The neutralising of History, esoteric and exoteric Christianity;
Fundamental ideas and arrangement of his system; Sources of truth,
doctrine of Scripture.
I. The Doctrine of God and its unfolding
Doctrine of God; Doctrine of the Logos; Clement's doctrine of the
Logos; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Doctrine of Spirits.
II. Doctrine of the Fall and its consequences
Doctrine of Man
III. Doctrine of Redemption and Restoration
The notions necessary to the Psychical; The Christology; The
Appropriation of Salvation; The Eschatology; Concluding Remarks:
The importance of this system to the following period.

DIVISION I
BOOK II.
THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATIONS.

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