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History of Dogma - Volume III

History of Dogma - Volume III

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
88k words · about 6 hours
Chapters
21

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 three 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. Introduction
  3. The Secession of Dynamistic Monarchianism or Adoptianism. 🔒
  4. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism · Part 1 🔒
  5. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism · Part 2 🔒
  6. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism · Part 3 🔒
  7. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism · Part 4 🔒
  8. Book I. The History of the Development of Dogma as the Doctrine of the God-Man on the Basis of Natural Theology. 🔒
  9. Chapter I. Historical Situation. 🔒
  10. Conception of Redemption as Deification of Humanity Consequent upon Incarnation of Deity. 🔒
  11. Moral and Rational Element in System of Doctrine. Distinction between Dogmas and Dogmatic Presuppositions or Conceptions 🔒
  12. Introduction. 🔒
  13. Holy Scripture. 🔒
  14. Tradition 🔒
  15. The Church. 🔒
  16. Presuppositions of the Doctrine of Redemption, or Natural Theology. 🔒
  17. Chapter IV. Presuppositions and Conceptions Regarding God, the Creator, as Dispenser of Salvation. 🔒
  18. Chapter V. Presuppositions and Conceptions Regarding Man as the Recipient of Salvation. 🔒
  19. Chapter VI. The Doctrine of the Necessity and Realit of Redemption throught the Incarnation of the Son to God. 🔒
  20. Appendix to Chapter VI. The Ideas of Redemption from the Devil, and of Atonement through the Work of the God-Man 🔒
  21. Appendix on Manichæism 🔒

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