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History of Dogma - Volume V

History of Dogma - Volume V

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
85k words · about 6 hours
Chapters
20

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 five 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. Second Book. Expansion and Remodelling of Dogma into a Doctrine of Sin, Grace and means of Grace on the basis of the Church.
  3. Chapter I. Historical Situation.
  4. Chapter II. Western Christianity and Western Theologians before Augustine. 🔒
  5. Chapter III. The Historical Position of Augustine as Reformer of Christian Piety. 🔒
  6. Introduction 🔒
  7. Augustine’s Doctrines of the First and Last Things. 🔒
  8. 2. The Donatist Controversy. The Work: De civitate Dei. Doctrine of the Church, and Means of Grace. 🔒
  9. 3. The Pelagian Controversy. The Doctrine of Grace and Sin. · Part 1 🔒
  10. 3. The Pelagian Controversy. The Doctrine of Grace and Sin. · Part 2 🔒
  11. 3. The Pelagian Controversy. The Doctrine of Grace and Sin. · Part 3 🔒
  12. 4. Augustine’s Interpretation of the Symbol (Enchiridion ad Laurentium). The New System of Religion. 🔒
  13. Introduction 🔒
  14. 1. The Conflict between Semi-Pelagianism and Augustinianism. 🔒
  15. 2. Gregory the Great. 🔒
  16. Introduction 🔒
  17. 1(a). The Adoptian Controversy. 🔒
  18. I b. The Controversy as to Predestination. 🔒
  19. 2. The Controversy Regarding the Filioque and Pictures. 🔒
  20. 3. The Development of the Practice and Theory of the Mass (the Dogma of the Lord’s Supper) and of Penance. 🔒

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