An edition of Early Christian doctrines
(2003)
Early Christian doctrines
Rev. ed., Prince Press ed edition
by J. N. D. Kelly
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This revised edition of the standard history of the first great period in Christian thought has been thoroughly updated in light of the latest historical findings. Dr. Kelly organizes an ocean of material by outlining the development of each doctrine in its historical context. He lucidly summarizes the genesis of Christian thought from the close of the apostolic age to the Council of Chalcedon in the fifth century -- a time teeming with fresh and competing ideas. The doctrines of the Trinity, the authority of the Bible and tradition, the nature of Christ, salvation, original sin and grace, and the sacraments are all extensively treated in these pages. - Back cover.
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Early Christian doctrines
2003, Prince Press, an imprint of Hendrickson Publishers, Prince Press
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First Sentence
"THE object of this book is to sketch the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth."
Table of Contents
Part 1. Prolegomena.
I. The background.
The Patristic epoch
Judaism
Religious trends in the Roman Empire
Graeco-Roman philosophy
Neo-Platonism
The Gnostic way
II. Tradition and scripture.
The norm of doctrine
The primitive period
Irenaeus and Tertullian
The third and fourth centuries
The appeal to the Fathers
III. The Holy Scriptures.
The Old Testament
The New Testament canon
The inspiration of scripture
The unity of the two testaments
Typology and allegory
The Antiochene reaction
Part 2. The pre-Nicene theology.
IV. The divine triad.
One God the creator
The Church's faith
The Apostolic Fathers
The apologists and the Word
The apologists and the Trinity
Irenaeus
V. Third-century Trinitarianism.
Introduction
Hippolytus and Tertullian
Dynamic Monarchianism
Modalistic Monarchianism
The Roman theology
Clement and Origen
The influence of Origen
VI. The beginnings of Christology.
One-sided solutions
The Spirit Christology
The apologists and Irenaeus
The Western contribution
The school of Alexandria
The East after Origen
VII. Man and his redemption.
The sub-Apostolic age
The Apologists
The theory of recapitulation
The West in the third century
The doctrine of Man in the east
Eastern views of the work of Christ
VIII. The Christian community.
The beginnings of ecclesiology
Early views of the sacraments
Developments in the doctine of the Church
Baptism in the third century
Progress in Eucharistic doctrine
The penitential discipline
Part 3. From Nicaea to Chalcedon.
IX. The Nicene crisis.
The eve of the conflict
The teaching of Arius
The theology of Nicaea
The aftermath of Nicaea
The Nicene party and Athanasius
The anti-Nicenes
X. The doctrine of the Trinity.
The return to the Homoousion
The Homoousion of the Spirit : Athanasius
The Homoousion of the Spirit : The Cappadocians
The Cappadocians and the Trinity
The Trinity in the West
The contribution of Augustine
XI. Fourth-century Christology.
The Arians and Eustathius
The Christology of Athanasius
Apollinarianism
The Orthodox reaction
The Antiochene Christology
XII. The Christological settlement.
Nestorianism
Cyril of Alexandria
From Ephesus towards unity
The case of Eutyches
The West and Leo
The Chalcedonian settlement
XIII. Fallen man and God's grace.
The soul's origin
Athanasius and the Fall
The Greek Fathers
The West before Augustine
The doctine of Pelagius
Augustine and original sin
Grace and presdestination
The Western settlement
The East in the fifth century
XIV. Christ's saving work.
The clue to soteriology
Athanasius
Fourth-century Greek Fathers
The West in the fourth century
Augustine
XV. Christ's mystical body.
Ecclesiology in the East
The East and the Roman See
Western doctrines : Hilary and Optatus
Western doctrines : Augustine
The West and the Roman primacy
XVI. The later doctine of the sacraments.
General theory
Baptism
Confirmation or Chrism
Penance
The Eucharistic presence
The Eucharistic sacrifice
Part 4. Epilogue.
XVII. The Christian hope.
The tension in eschatology
Second-century conceptions
The develpoment of dogma
Origen
Later thought : Resurrection of the body
Later thought : Parousia and Judgment
Life everlasting
XVIII. Mary and the Saints.
The martyrs and saints
Mary in the Ante-Nicene period
From Nicaea to Ephesus
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