Early Christian DoctrinesA history of doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. Canon Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, and from the end of the apostolic age to the council of Chalcedon. |
Contents
CHAP | 3 |
TRADITION AND SCRIPTURE | 29 |
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES | 52 |
CHAP PAGE | 83 |
THIRDCENTURY TRINITARIANISM | 109 |
THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTOLOGY | 138 |
MAN AND HIS REDEMPTION | 163 |
The West in the Third Century | 174 |
FALLEN MAN AND GODS GRACE | 344 |
Athanasius and the Fall | 346 |
The Greek Fathers | 348 |
The West Before Augustine | 353 |
48 | 355 |
The Doctrine of Pelagius | 357 |
Augustine and Original Sin | 361 |
64 | 363 |
The Doctrine of Man in the East | 178 |
Eastern Views of the Work of Christ | 183 |
THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | 189 |
Early Views of the Sacraments | 193 |
Developments in the Doctrine of the Church | 200 |
Baptism in the Third Century | 207 |
Progress in Eucharistic Doctrine | 211 |
The Penitential Discipline | 216 |
PART III | 221 |
THE NICENE CRISIS | 223 |
The Teaching of Arius | 226 |
The Theology of Nicaea | 231 |
The Aftermath of Nicaea | 237 |
The Nicene Party and Athanasius | 240 |
The AntiNicenes | 247 |
THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY | 252 |
Athanasius | 255 |
the Cap padocians | 258 |
The Cappadocians and the Trinity | 263 |
The Trinity in the West | 269 |
The Contribution of Augustine | 271 |
CHAP PAGE XI FOURTHCENTURY CHRISTOLOGY | 280 |
The Arians and Eustathius | 281 |
The Christology of Athanasius | 284 |
Apollinarianism | 289 |
The Orthodox Reaction | 295 |
The Antiochene Christology | 301 |
THE CHRISTOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT | 310 |
Cyril of Alexandria | 317 |
From Ephesus Towards Unity | 323 |
The Case of Eutyches | 330 |
29 | 333 |
s The West and Leo | 334 |
The Chalcedonian Settlement | 338 |
Grace and Predestination | 366 |
The Western Settlement | 369 |
The East in the Fifth Century | 372 |
CHRISTS SAVING WORK | 375 |
Athanasius | 377 |
Fourthcentury Greek Fathers | 380 |
The West in the Fourth Century | 386 |
Augustine | 390 |
The East in the Fifth Century | 395 |
69 | 397 |
CHRISTS MYSTICAL BODY | 401 |
The East and the Roman See | 406 |
Hilary and Optatus | 409 |
Augustine | 412 |
s The West and the Roman Primacy | 417 |
THE LATER DOCTRINE OF THE SACRA MENTS | 422 |
Baptism | 428 |
Confirmation or Chrism | 432 |
Penance | 436 |
s The Eucharistic Presence | 440 |
The Eucharistic Sacrifice | 449 |
PART IV | 457 |
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE | 459 |
Secondcentury Conceptions | 462 |
The Development of Dogma | 464 |
Origen | 469 |
Resurrection of the Body | 474 |
Parousia and Judgment | 479 |
Life Everlasting | 485 |
MARY AND THE SAINTS | 490 |
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| Title | Early Christian Doctrines |
| Author | J. N. D. Kelly |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0826452523, 9780826452528 |
| Length | 528 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Theology |
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