History of Dogma - Volume II

Name: History of Dogma - Volume II
Author: Adolf Harnack

Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and the most famous church historian of his generation. Professor at Berlin, he traced Christianity's development in his monumental History of Dogma and popularized its 'essence' as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Our library carries several volumes of his History of Dogma and his Essays on the Social Gospel — primary documents of liberal Protestant scholarship.

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First published: 1895
Category: Theology
Length: 87k words · about 6 hours
Chapters: 25

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 two 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.

Chapter I. Historical Survey.
Chapter II. The Setting Up of the Apostolic Standards for Ecclesiastical Christianity. The Catholic Church.
The Transformation of the Baptismal Confession into the Apostolic Rule of Faith.
The designation of selected writings read in the Churches as New Testament Scriptures or, in other words, as a collection of Apostolic Writings. 🔒
The transformation of the Episcopal Office in the Church into an Apostolic Office. The History of the remodeling of the conception of the Church. 🔒
Appendix I. Cyprian’s idea of the Church and the actual circumstances. 🔒
Appendix II. Church and Heresy. 🔒
Appendix III. Uncertainties regarding the consequences of the new idea of the Church. 🔒
Chapter III. Continuation. The Old Christianity and the New Church. · Part 1 🔒
Chapter III. Continuation. The Old Christianity and the New Church. · ADDENDA. 🔒
Chapter III. Continuation. The Old Christianity and the New Church. · CATHOLIC AND ROMAN. 🔒
1. Introduction. 🔒
2. Christianity as Philosophy and as Revelation. 🔒
3. The doctrines of Christianity as the revealed and rational religion. 🔒
1. The theological position of Irenæus and the later contemporary Church teachers. 🔒
2. The Old Catholic Fathers’ doctrine of the Church. · Part 1 🔒
2. The Old Catholic Fathers’ doctrine of the Church. · Part 2 🔒
2. The Old Catholic Fathers’ doctrine of the Church. · Part 3 🔒
3. Results to Ecclesiastical Christianity, chiefly in the West, (Cyprian, Novatian). 🔒
Chapter VI. The Transformation of the Ecclesiastical Tradition into a Philosophy of Religion, or the Origin of the Scientific Theology and Dogmatic of the Church. 🔒
(1) The Alexandrian Catechetical School and Clement of Alexandria. 🔒
(2) The system of Origen. 🔒
I. The Doctrine of God and its unfolding. 🔒
II. Doctrine of the Fall and its consequences. 🔒
III. Doctrine of Redemption and Restoration. 🔒