History of Dogma - Volume I

About this book

Adolf von Harnack's History of Dogma, in English translation: a vast account of how the doctrines of the church developed from the apostolic age onward. This is volume one of the work. Harnack, the leading church historian of liberal Protestantism, traces the formation of dogma with immense learning, though from a standpoint many readers will judge critically.

Contents

1. Prefatory Material
2. Chapter I. Prolegomena to the Discipline of the History of Dogma
3. Chapter II. The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma · Part 1 🔒
4. Chapter II. The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma · Part 2 🔒
5. Chapter II. The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma · Part 3 🔒
6. Chapter II. The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma · Part 4 🔒
7. Chapter II. The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma · Part 5 🔒
8. Supplementary 🔒
9. Chapter I. Historical Survey 🔒
10. Chapter II. The Element Common to All Christians and the Breach with Judaism 🔒
11. Chapter III. The Common Faith and the Beginnings of Knowledge in Gentile Christianity as It Was Being Developed into Catholicism · Part 1 🔒
12. Chapter III. The Common Faith and the Beginnings of Knowledge in Gentile Christianity as It Was Being Developed into Catholicism · Part 2 🔒
13. Chapter III. The Common Faith and the Beginnings of Knowledge in Gentile Christianity as It Was Being Developed into Catholicism · Part 3 🔒
14. Chapter IV. The Attempts of the Gnostics to Create an Apostolic Dogmatic, and a Christian Theology; or, the Acute Secularising of Christianity 🔒
15. Chapter V. Marcion’s Attempt to Set Aside the Old Testament Foundation of Christianity to Purify Tradition, and to Reform Christendom on Basis of Pauline Gospel 🔒
16. Chapter VI. The Christianity of Jewish Christians, Definition of the Notion of Jewish Christianity 🔒
17. Appendix I. On the Conception of Pre-existence 🔒
18. Appendix II. On Liturgies and the Genesis of Dogma 🔒
19. Appendix III. On Neoplatonism 🔒