A study of the development of doctrine in the unfolding history of the Christian church.
The Author traces the organic unity of doctrine in the ongoing history of the Christian church. Orr, whose grasp of the literature was unequalled, saw how doctrine had developed as a reaction to some particular dispute in each era.
The book also describes the relationship between the development of doctrinal ideas and the spread of Christianity.
| Dimensions | 216 × 140 mm |
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| Pages | 372 |
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| Trade Information | JPOD |
Foreword
I. Idea of Course – Relation of Dogma to its History –
Parallelism of Logical and Historical Developments
II. Early Apologetic and Fundamental Religious Ideas –
Controversy with Paganism and Gnosticism (second century)
III. The Doctrine of God; Trinity and Deity of Son and Spirit –
Monarchian, Arian and Macedonian Controversies (third and fourth centuries)
IV. Arian and Macedonian Controversies continued (fourth century)
V. The Doctrine of Man and Sin; Grace and Pre-destination –
Augustinian and Pelagian Controversies (fifth century)
VI. The Doctrine of the Person of Christ –
The Christological Controversies: Apollinarian, Nestorian, Eutychian,
Monophysite, Monothelite (fifth to seventh centuries)
VII. The Doctrine of Atonement –
Anselm and Abelard to Reformation (eleventh to sixteenth centuries)
VIII. The Doctrine of the Application of Redemption; Justification by Faith; Regeneration, etc. –
Protestantism and Roman Catholicism (sixteenth century)
IX. Post Reformation Theology: Lutheranism and Calvinism –
New Influences acting on Theology and their Results
in Rationalism (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries)
X. Modern Restatement of the Problems of Theology –
The Doctrine of the Last Things (nineteenth century)
Appendix
Index
