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Fisher: History of Christian Doctrine

George Park Fisher · 1896

A one-volume survey of Christian doctrine from the apostles to the nineteenth century, East and West, by a Yale church historian.

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From the opening: Greek Philosophy and Gentile Culture

Ancient Theology

Period

The Rise and Early Types of Theology to the Complete System of Origen and to the Fully…

Chapter I

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Apostolic Christianity — Palestinian and Hellenistic Judaism

Greek Philosophy and Gentile Culture . . 23-33

The sources of Christian Theology are the testimony and teach ings of the Apostles. The bond between the Old Testament and

the New in the idea of the kingdom of God. JESUS as the Head

of the kingdom. Jesus the organ of the self-revelation of God: His death the precursor of victory and the ground of forgiveness. His kingdom, both present and to come. In the Synoptics the higher nature of Christ implied in the Eschatology. His preexistence and divinity taught by the Apostle Paul. His catholic interpretation of the Gospel. The Apostolic authorship of the Fourth Gospel. It

brings out the metaphysical relation of the Son to the Father.

The disciples influenced by Jewish interpretation of 0. T. Scriptures, and by Jewish Apocalypses. Hellenistic Jews might mediate between Judaism and Gentile thought. This especially true of Alexandrian Judaism, and of PHILO'S teaching. Philo, ft sincere Jew, yet imbued with the Platonic and Stoic Philosophy. Held to an occult sense of Scripture. His dualism caught up from Plato. His intermediate Powers midway between persons and personifica tions. This true of his conception of the Logos. Evil connected with matter as the source. Souls to rise above sense to immediate communion with God. The idea of the Incarnation of the Logos

foreign to Philo, as well as that of a personal Messiah. In

the age prior to the introduction of the Gospel, a decay of faith in the heathen religion. A growing tendency to SYNCRETISM. In the first century, a revival of religious feeling and a drift towards monotheism. PLUTARCH found a place for the old divinities. Philosophers beginning to do the work of pastors, Influence of Greek philosophy on Christian doctrine. SOCRATES, the founder of ethical philosophy. Sought to lay a scientific basis for morals. A way opened by his teaching for a one-sided intellectualism. In PLATO, ideas conceived of as supersensible realities. The idea of the good the cause both of being and cognition. God personal, but matter eternal. Souls preexistent. Redemption a release from the

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bondage of sense. In Plato germs of Pantheism and of a Gnostic

hypostasizing of ideas. After Plato and Aristotle, Philosophy

practical. Tranquillity of spirit the end and aim of the two pre vailing systems. In EPICUREANISM no affinity with the Gospel. STOICISM indebted for its metaphysics to Heraclilus. Its theory a materialistic Pantheism. Xeus (lie totality…

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Contents (112 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. The International Theological Library
  3. Arrangement of Volumes and Authors
  4. Contemporary History of the Old Testament. by
  5. A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age. by
  6. Contemporary History of the New Testament. by
  7. The Christian Pastor and the Working Church. by
  8. Publisher's catalogue
  9. History of Christian Doctrine. by Prof. George Park Fisher, D.d., Ll.d
  10. Preface
  11. Preface (continued)
  12. Introduction
  13. Greek Philosophy and Gentile Culture
  14. The Ecclesiastical Writers
  15. Doctrine in the Apostolic Fathers
  16. The Judaic Separatist Parties — the Gnostic Sects — Marcion
  17. The Beginnings of Theology — the Greek Apologists
  18. The Rise of the Old Catholic Church — the Rule of Faith — the Canon — the Episcopate…
  19. Melito of Sardis — in the North African School — Tertullian — the Alexandrian Christian…
  20. Melito of Sardis — in the North African School — Tertullian — the Alexandrian Christian… (continued)
  21. Chapters I–II
  22. Doctrines Converted into Dogmas — Church and State — the Great Controversies — the…
  23. Doctrines Converted into Dogmas — Church and State — the Great Controversies — the… (continued)
  24. Doctrines Converted into Dogmas — Church and State — the Great Controversies — the… (continued)
  25. The Doctrines Not Defined in the Œcumenical Councils
  26. Chapter VII
  27. From Gregory I. to Charlemagne — the Work of Mediaeval Theology — Theology in the Eastern…
  28. Characteristics of Scholasticism — the Scholastic Maxim — Philosophy: Nominalism and…
  29. Subdivisions of the Scholastic Era — the First Section: Anselm; Abelard; Bernard; the…
  30. Chapters VI–VII
  31. Scholastic Doctrines: the Atonement — Conversion and Sanctification — Justification…
  32. Scholastic Doctrines: the Sacraments
  33. The Catharists — the Waldenses — the Mystics — Wesel; Wessel; Savonarola — the Doctrines…
  34. The Theology of Luther
  35. The Theology of Zwingli — the Eucharistic Controversy — Parties in the Lutheran Church to…
  36. The Theology of Calvin
  37. Rise and Progress or Protestant Theology in England
  38. Sects in the Wake of the Reformation — the Socinian
  39. The Roman Catholic System Restated in the Creed of Trent — the Theology of the Jesuits…
  40. Saumur — Pajonism — the Federal Theology
  41. Theology — the Latitudinarians
  42. The Arian Controversy in England — the English Deistic School — Theology of the Quakers…
  43. From the Philosophy of Locke and Leibnitz to the Present Chapter I
  44. Chapter III
  45. Chapters IV–V
  46. Chapters VI–VII
  47. Chapters VIII–X
  48. Conclusion: Certain Theological Tendencies in Recent Times
  49. Doctrine — Sketch of Its Course — History of the History of Doctrine — the Literature of…
  50. Introduction
  51. Part I
  52. Apostolic Christianity — Palestinian and Hellenistic Judaism Greek Philosophy and Gentile…
  53. Chapter II
  54. Chapter III
  55. Chapter IV
  56. Chapter V
  57. Chapter VI
  58. Chapter VII
  59. Chapter VIII
  60. Chapter VIII (continued)
  61. Chapter I
  62. Chapter II
  63. Chapter III
  64. Chapter IV
  65. Chapter V
  66. Chapter VI
  67. Chapter VI (continued)
  68. Pelagianism and the Theology of the East on the Controverted Topics — Semi-Pelagianism…
  69. Chapter I
  70. Chapter II
  71. Berengarius and Lanfranc on the Lord's Supper
  72. Chapter III
  73. Chapter IV
  74. Chapter V
  75. Chapter VI
  76. Chapter VII
  77. Chapter VIII
  78. Chapter IX
  79. Chapter I
  80. Chapter II
  81. Chapter III
  82. Chapter IV
  83. Chapter V
  84. Chapter VI
  85. Chapter VII
  86. Chapter VIII
  87. Chapter IX
  88. Chapter I
  89. Chapter II
  90. Chapter II (continued)
  91. Chapter II (continued)
  92. Chapter II (continued)
  93. Theology in England in the Nineteenth Century: the Evangelical School in the Established…
  94. Theology in England in the Nineteenth Century: the Evangelical School in the Established… (continued)
  95. Chapter IV
  96. Chapter IV (continued)
  97. Jacobi and Herder: Two Divergent Currents of Theological Thought
  98. Modern Theology
  99. Schleiermacher's Theological System
  100. Chapter VII
  101. Chapter VII (continued)
  102. Chapter IX
  103. Chapter X
  104. Chapter X (continued)
  105. Chapter X (continued)
  106. Volumes Now Ready
  107. Publisher's catalogue
  108. Publisher's catalogue (continued)
  109. Publisher's catalogue (continued)
  110. The Old Testament
  111. Publisher's catalogue
  112. The New Testament

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