Early Christian Doctrines

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Chapter 1. The background -- 1. The patristic epoch -- 2. Religious trends in the roman empire -- 3. Graeco-roman philosophy -- 4. Neo-platonism -- 5. Judaism -- 6. The gnostic way -- Chapter 2: Tradition and scripture -- 1. The norm of doctrine -- 2. The primitive period -- 3.Irenaeus and Tertullian -- 4. The third and fourth centuries -- 5. The appeal to the fathers -- Chapter 3: The Holly Scriptures -- 1. The old testament -- 2. The new testament Canon -- 3. The inspiration of scripture -- 4. The unity of the two testaments -- 5. Typology and allegory -- 6. The antiochene reaction -- Chapter 4: The divine triad -- 1. One God the Creator -- 2. The church's faith -- 3. The apostolic fathers -- 4. The apologies and the world -- 5. The apologist and the Trinity -- 6. Irenaeus -- Chapter 5: Third-century trinitarianism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hippolytus and Tertullian -- 3. Dynamic monarchianism -- 4. Modalistic monarchianism -- 5. The roman theology -- 6. Clement and origin -- 7. The influence of origin -- Chapter 6: The beginnings of christology -- 1. One-sided solutions -- 2. The Spirit Christiology -- 3. The apologists and Irenaeus -- 4. The western contribution -- 5. The school of Alexandria -- 6. The East after origen -- Chapter 7: Man and his redemption -- 1. The sub-apostolic age -- 2. The apologists -- 3. The theory of recapitualtion -- 4. The west in the third century -- 5. The doctrine of man in the east -- 6. Eastern views of the work of Christ -- Chapter 8: The christian community -- 1. The beginings of ecclesiology -- 2. Early views of the sacraments -- 3. Developments in the doctrine of the church -- 4. Baptism in the third century -- 5. Progress in eucharistic doctrine -- 6. The penitential discipline -- Chapter 9: The nicene crisis -- 1. The eve of the conflict -- 2. The teaching of arius -- 3. The theology of Nicaea -- 4. The aftermath of nicaea -- 5. The nicene party and athanasius -- 6. The anti-nicenes -- Chapter 10: The doctrine of the trinity -- 1. The return of the homoousion -- 2. The homoousion of the spirit: Athanasius -- 3.The homoousion of the spirit: the cappadocians -- 4. The cappadocians and the trinity -- 5. The trinity in the west -- 6. The contributions of augustine -- Chapter 11: Fourth-century christology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The arians and eustahius -- 3. The christology of athanasius -- 4. Appolinarianism -- 5. The ortodox reaction -- 6. The antiochene christology -- 12: The christological settlement -- 1. Nestorianism -- 2. Cyril of alexandria -- 3. From Ephesus towards unity -- 4. The case of Eutyches -- 5. The west and Leo -- 6. The Chalcedonian settlement -- Chapter 13: Fallen man and God's grace -- 1. The soul's origin -- 2. Athanasius and the fall -- 3. The greek fathers -- 4. The west before Augustine -- 5. The doctrine of pelagius -- 6. Augustine and original sin -- 7. Grace and predestination -- 8. The western settlement -- 9. The east in the fifth century -- Chapter 14: Christ's saving work -- 1. The clue to soteriology -- 2. Athanasius -- 3. Fourth-century greek fathers -- 4. The west in the fourth century -- 5. Augustine -- 6. The east in the fifth century -- Chapter 15: Christ's mystical body -- 1. Ecclesiology in the east -- 2. The east and the Roman see -- 3. Western doctrines: Hillary and Optatus -- 4. Western doctrines: Augustine -- 5. The west and the roman primacy -- Chapter 16: The later doctrine of the sacraments -- 1. General theory -- 2. Baptism -- 3. Confirmation or chrism -- 4. penance -- 5. The eucharistic presence -- 6. The eucharistic sacrifice -- Chapter 17: The christian hope -- 1. The tension eschatology -- 2. second-century conceptions -- 3. The development of dogma -- 4. Origen -- 5. Later thought: resurection of the body -- 6. Later thought: Parousia and judgment -- 7. Life everlasting.