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History of Dogma - Volume IV

History of Dogma - Volume IV

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
90k words · about 6 hours
Chapters
19

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 four 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. 1. From the Beginning of the Controversy to the Council of Nicæa · Part 1
  4. 1. From the Beginning of the Controversy to the Council of Nicæa · Part 2
  5. 1. From the Beginning of the Controversy to the Council of Nicæa · Part 3 🔒
  6. 2. To the Death of Constantius. 🔒
  7. 3. To the Councils of Constantinope 381. 383. 🔒
  8. Appendix. 🔒
  9. Chapter II. The Doctrine of the Perfect Likeness of the Nature of the Incarnate Son of God with that of Humanity. 🔒
  10. Introduction 🔒
  11. 1. The Nestorian Controversy. 🔒
  12. 2. The Eutychian Controversy. 🔒
  13. 3. The Monophysite Controversies and the Fifth Council. 🔒
  14. 4. The Monergist and Monothelite Controversies. The Sixth Council and Johannes Damascenus. 🔒
  15. Chapter IV. The Mysteries and Kindred Subjects. · Part 1 🔒
  16. Chapter IV. The Mysteries and Kindred Subjects. · Part 2 🔒
  17. Chapter IV. The Mysteries and Kindred Subjects. · Part 3 🔒
  18. Chapter IV. The Mysteries and Kindred Subjects. · Part 4 🔒
  19. Chapter V. Appendix.—Sketch of the History of the Genesis of the Orthodox System. 🔒

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