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: Introduction: Views regarding the humanity of Christ up to the middle of the Fourth…
Close connection between the Trinitarian and Christological problems from that time 143 Tertullian's doctrine, the root of the orthodox doctrines 144 The humanity of Christ according to the Arians mere sarx 146
The Christology of Athanasius and Marcellus; origin of the formulæ, mia phusis, duo phiseis 147
The doctrine of Apollinaris of Laodicea as the first rigidly developed Christology 149
The condemnation of this doctrine; the perfect likeness of the humanity of Christ with human nature is elevated to the rank of dogma 158
The doctrine of the Cappadocians regarding the humanity and the unity of the God-Man 160 The difficulty of the Problem which now emerged 163
CHAPTER III.--Continuation: The Doctrine of the Personal Union of the Divine and Human Natures in the Incarnate Son of God 164-267 Introduction 164 (1) The Nestorian Controversy 165-190 The Christology of the Antiochians 165 The Christology of Cyril 174 Outbreak of the Controversy, Nestorius 180
The attitude of the Roman Bishop Coelestin, his repudiation of the Western view 182 The Anathemas 186 The Council of Ephesus 186 The Formula of union of the year 433 189 Cyril gains the upper hand 190 (2) The Eutychian Controversy 190-226
Survey of the position of the Alexandrian Patriarchs in the Church; Rome, Alexandria and the Byzantine State 190 Significance of the political conditions for the Eutychian Controversy 195 The Church after the union of the year 433 197 Eutyches and the charge against him; Flavian and the Council of 448 199 The appeal to Leo I 201 Dioscurus, the Master of the Eastern Church 201 Leo's Letters, the Ep. ad Flavianum 202 The Council of Ephesus of 499; triumph of Dioscurus 207 The period until the death of Theodosius II 210 Entire change in the situation; Pulcheria and Marcian 212 Leo I.; he seeks to prevent the calling of a Council 213 The Council of Chalcedon 215 The dogmatic formula 219 Significance and estimate of the formula 222 The twenty-eighth Canon of Chalcedon 225 (3) The Monophysite Controversies and the Fifth Council 226-252
The Chalcedonian Creed occasions serious conflicts in the East; imperial attempts to set it aside 226 The Henoticon and the Great Schism of the years 484-519 228 The Theopaschitian Controversy 230
The new scholastic orthodoxy reconciles itself to the Chalcedonian Creed; Leontius of Byzantium 232
Contents (23 sections)
- Opening
- Title page
- Translated from the Third German Edition
- History of Dogma
- Dr. Adolph Harnack
- Introduction: Views regarding the humanity of Christ up to the middle of the Fourth…
- The Doctrine of the Homousia of the Son of God with God Himself
- 1. from the Beginning of the Controversy to the Council of Nicæa
- 1. from the Beginning of the Controversy to the Council of Nicæa (continued)
- 2. to the Death of Constantius
- 3. to the Councils of Constantinople 381. 383
- The Doctrine of the Holy Ghost and of the Trinity
- The Doctrine of the Holy Ghost and of the Trinity (continued)
- The Doctrine of the Perfect Likeness of the Nature of the Incarnate Son of God with That…
- Chapter III
- Chapter III (continued)
- Chapter III (continued)
- Chapter III (continued)
- Chapter IV
- Chapter IV (continued)
- Chapter IV (continued)
- Chapter V
- Chapter V (continued)
How to cite it
- Chicago
- Adolf von Harnack. Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 4. Translated by Neil Buchanan and others. CCEL, translation 1894–1899. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma4
- MLA
- Adolf von Harnack. Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 4. Translated by Neil Buchanan and others, CCEL, translation 1894–1899. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma4
- APA
- Adolf von Harnack (translation 1894–1899). Harnack: History of Dogma, Vol. 4 (Neil Buchanan and others, Trans.). CCEL. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma4
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