Doctrine and practice in the early church /
Stuart G. Hall
- Second Edition
- 262 pages ; 22 cm
Contents :
1. GOD AND THE GODS Religion in the Roman Empire — Critiques of the gods —Society and government — The Empire and Christianity 2. COMMUNITY AND MORALITY Conversion and preparation — Coming to baptism — The Eucharistic offering 3. THE MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGERS The canon of Scripture — Interpreting Scripture — Church leaders: Didache; Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Irenaeus 4. PROLIFERATION AND EXCESS Heresy and schism — Marcion — Gnosticism — Eastern Christianity — Montanism 5. DEFENCE AND DEFINITION: EARLY APOLOGISTS Apologists and apologetic — Charge and counter-charge — God and his Word — Holy Spirit and Trinity 6. TRADITION AND TRUTH: IRENAEUS OF LYONS Lyons and Irenaeus — Apostolic succession — The Rule of Truth — God and Christ — Mankind and redemption 7. LATIN THEOLOGY LAUNCHED: TERTULLIAN Tertullian the Christian — Tertullian the churchman —Tertullian the theologian 8. SECTARIAN RELIGION AND EPISCOPAL AUTHORITY Dionysius of Corinth, Serapion and Demetrius — The church in Rome under Victor — Doctrinal disputes: Hippolytus —Discipline and order: Callistus — Reconciliation and renewed persecution 9. ONE CHURCH, ONE BAPTISM: CYPRIAN Persecution and the problem of the lapsed — Schism and unity — Cyprian on defaulting bishops and on baptism 10. THE ALEXANDRIAN HERITAGE: CLEMENT Alexandria and Clement — Clement the teacher — The knowledge of God 11. ORIGEN THE THEOLOGIAN Origen — The system and the Scriptures — Scripture and allegory — God and the Trinity — Creation, flesh and the humanity of Christ — The influence of Origen: Dionysius and Paul 12. THE RISE OF CONSTANTINE The Great Persecution - Donatism - Church and Empire 13. ARIUS AND THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA Arius — Constantine intervenes — The Council of Antioch, 325 — Marcellus of Ancyra — The Council and Creed of Nicaea — The outcome and aftermath of Nicaea 14. COUNCILS AND CONTROVERSIES: 327-361 The Eusebian supremacy — The division of East and West — The Eastern dominance 15. TOWARDS SYNTHESIS: 361-378 1 The reign of Julian, 361-3 — The Spirit-fighters — Apollinarianism — The Cappadocian Fathers — The Cappadocian Fathers on the Trinity — The Cappadocian Fathers on Christ and salvation 16. THEODOSIUS I AND THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE Theodosius and the Western theology — Nicenes divided in the East — The Council of Constantinople: Canons — The Council of Constantinople: the Creed — The West 17. NEW SPIRITUALITY: THE MONASTIC MOVEMENT Monastic beginnings — Pachomius and life together — Syrian movements — Basil's contribution — Evagrius of Pontus — Western developments 18. ORIGENISM, JEROME AND JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Origenism and Jerome — Origenism in Palestine; Rufinus — John Chrysostom 19. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Career and Confessions — Youth in Africa; Manicheism — Ambrose and Neoplatonism — Monastic call and conversion — Augustine on the Trinity — Donatism and the Church — Pelagianism — The City of God 20. CYRIL, NESTORIUS AND THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS Cyril and the rise of Nestorius — Theotokos — Cyril's Second Letter to Nestorius — Cyril's Third Letter to Nestorius — Nestorius condemned — The Formula of Reunion 21. EUTYCHES, LEO AND THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON New personalities — Leo — Theodoret — Eutyches — The Tome of Leo — The Council of Ephesus, 449 — The Council of Chalcedon, 451 — The Chalcedonian Definition — The value of the Definition 22. THE HERITAGE OF ANCIENT THEOLOGY The imperial Church — Doctrinal development — The biblical basis
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Church history --Primitive and early church, ca. 30 - 600 Theology, Doctrinal --History