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Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 3

The most influential history of doctrine of its age. Its thesis, that dogma grew from the Greek spirit working on the gospel, has been much debated and widely criticized; read it as a landmark of liberal Protestant scholarship.

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From the opening: First Part: Second Book Continued

CHAPTER I.--The decisive success of theological speculation in the sphere of the Rule of Faith, or, the defining of the norm of the Doctrine of the Church due to the adoption of the Logos Christology 1-118 1. Introduction 1 Significance of the Logos Doctrine 2 Consequences 3 Historical retrospect 5 Opposition to the Logos Doctrine 7 The Monarchians, within Catholicism 8 Precatholic only among the Alogi 12 Division of subject, defective information 13 2. Secession of Dynamistic Monarchianism, or Adoptianism 14 14 a. The so-called Alogi in Asia Minor 14 b.

The Roman Monarchians: Theodotus the leatherworker and his party; Asclepiodotus, Hermophilus, Apollonides. Theodotus the money-changer, also the Artemonites 20 c. Traces of Adoptian Christology in the West after Artemas 32 d.

Ejection of Adoptian Christology in the East.--Beryll of Bostra, Paul of Samosata etc. 34

Acta Archelai, Aphraates 50 3. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism 51 a.

Modalistic Monarchians in Asia Minor and in the West: Noetus, Epigonus, Cleomenes, Æschines, Praxeas, Victorinus, Zephyrinus, Sabellius, Callistus 51 b. The last stages of Modalism in the West, and the state of Theology 73

Commodian, Amobius, Lactantius 77

Theology of the West about A.D. 300 78 c.

Modalistic Monarchians in the East: Sabellianism and the History of Philosophical Christology and Theology after Origen 81 Various forms of Sabellianism 82 Doctrine of Sabellius 83 The fight of the two Dionysii 88 The Alexandrian training school 95 Pierius 96 Theognostus 96 Hieracas 98 Peter of Alexandria 99 Gregory Thaumaturgus 101

Theology of the future: combination of theology of Irenæus with that of Origen: Methodius 104 Union of speculation with Realism and Traditionalism 105 Dogmatic culminating in Monachism 110 Close of the development: Identification of Faith and Theology 113 SECOND PART. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMA.

FIRST BOOK. The History of the Development of Dogma as the Doctrine of the God-man on the basis of Natural Theology. CHAPTER I.--Historical Situation 121-162 Internal position of the Church at the beginning of the fourth Century 121

Relative unity of the Church as World-Church, apostolicity and secularisation 123 Asceticism culminating in monachism as bond of unity 127 State of Theology 131 Theology influenced by Origen departs from strict monotheism 135

Conservative Theology in the East 137

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Contents (26 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Editor's Preface
  4. Author's Preface to First Edition of Volume II. of the German Work
  5. Preface to the Third Edition
  6. First Part: Second Book Continued
  7. Chapter I
  8. Chapter I (continued)
  9. Chapter I (continued)
  10. Chapter I (continued)
  11. Chapter I (continued)
  12. Division II
  13. Chapter I
  14. Chapter I (continued)
  15. Chapter II
  16. Appendix. The ideas of redemption from the devil and atonement through the work of the…
  17. Appendix. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity
  18. Chapter III
  19. Chapter III (continued)
  20. Chapter IV
  21. Chapter V
  22. Chapter V (continued)
  23. Chapter VI
  24. The Ideas of Redemption from the Devil, and of Atonement Through the Work of the God-Man
  25. Appendix on Manichæism
  26. Appendix on Manichæism (continued)

How to cite it

Chicago
Adolf von Harnack. Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 3. Translated by Neil Buchanan and others. CCEL, translation 1894–1899. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma3
MLA
Adolf von Harnack. Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 3. Translated by Neil Buchanan and others, CCEL, translation 1894–1899. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma3
APA
Adolf von Harnack (translation 1894–1899). Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 3 (Neil Buchanan and others, Trans.). CCEL. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma3

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