History of Dogma, Volume 2

Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7), by
Adolph Harnack

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Title: History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
Author: Adolph Harnack
Translator: Neil Buchanan
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HISTORY OF DOGMA

BY
DR. ADOLPH HARNACK ORDINARY PROF. OF CHURCH
HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, BERLIN
TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION
BY
NEIL BUCHANAN
VOL. II.
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1901

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
--Historical Survey
The Old and New Elements in the formation of the Catholic Church;
The fixing of that which is Apostolic (Rule of Faith, Collection of
Writings, Organization, Cultus); The Stages in the Genesis of the
Catholic Rule of Faith, the Apologists; Irenæus, Tertullian, Hippolytus;
Clement and Origen; Obscurities in reference to the origin of the most
important Institutions; Difficulties in determining the importance of
individual Personalities; Differences of development in the Churches of
different countries.
I. FIXING AND GRADUAL SECULARISING OF CHRISTIANITY
AS A CHURCH
CHAPTER II.
--The setting up of the Apostolic Standards for Ecclesiastical

Christianity. The Catholic Church
A. The transformation of the Baptismal Confession into the Apostolic
Rule of Faith
Necessities for setting up the Apostolic Rule of Faith; The Rule of
Faith is the Baptismal Confession definitely interpreted; Estimate of
this transformation; Irenæus; Tertullian; Results of the transformation;
Slower development in Alexandria: Clement and Origen.
B. The designation of selected writings read in the Churches as New
Testament Scriptures or, in other words, as a collection of Apostolic
Writings
Plausible arguments against the statement that up to the year 150 there
was no New Testament in the Church; Sudden emergence of the New
Testament in the Muratorian Fragment, in (Melito) Irenæus and
Tertullian; Conditions under which the New Testament originated;
Relation of the New Testament to the earlier writings that were read in
the Churches; Causes and motives for the formation of the Canon,
manner of using and results of the New Testament; The Apostolic
collection of writings can be proved at first only in those Churches in
which we find the Apostolic Rule of Faith; probably there was no New
Testament in Antioch about the year 200, nor in Alexandria (Clement);
Probable history of the genesis of the New Testament in Alexandria up
to the time of Origen; ADDENDUM. The results which the creation of
the New Testament produced in the following period.
C. The transformation of the Episcopal Office in the Church into an
Apostolic Office. The History of the remodelling of the conception of
the Church
The legitimising of the Rule of Faith by the Communities which were
founded by the Apostles; By the "Elders"; By the Bishops of Apostolic
Churches (disciples of Apostles); By the Bishops as such, who have
received the Apostolic Charisma veritatis; Excursus on the conceptions
of the Alexandrians; The Bishops as successors of the Apostles;
Original idea of the Church as the Holy Community that comes from

Heaven and is destined for it; The Church as the empiric Catholic
Communion resting on the Law of Faith; Obscurities in the idea of the
Church as held by Irenæus and Tertullian; By Clement and Origen;
Transition to the Hierarchical idea of the Church; The Hierarchical idea
of the Church: Calixtus and Cyprian; 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
Introduction; The Original Montanism; The later Montanism as the
dregs of the movement and as the product of a compromise; The
opposition to the demands of the Montanists by the Catholic Bishops:
importance of the victory for the Church; History of penance: the old
practice; The laxer practice in the days of Tertullian and Hippolytus;
The abolition of the old practice in the days of Cyprian; Significance of
the new kind of penance for the idea of the Church; the Church no
longer a Communion of Salvation and of Saints, but a condition of
Salvation and a Holy Institution and thereby a corpus permixtum; After
effect of the old idea of the Church in Cyprian; Origen's idea of the
Church; Novatian's idea of the Church and of penance, the Church of
the Catharists; Conclusion: