Early christian doctrines.
- Revised edition
- 511p.; 21cm.
First printing of Prince Press edition
Part I. PROLEGOMENA -- I. The background -- II. Tradition and scripture -- III. The Holy scriptures -- Part II. The pre-nicene theology -- IV. The divine triad -- V. Third-century trinitarianism -- VI. The beginnings of Christology -- VII. Man and his redemption -- VIII. The Christian community --
Part III From Nicaea to Chalcedon -- IX. The nicene crisis -- X. The doctrine of the trinity -- XI. Fourth-century Christology -- XII. The Christological settlement -- XIII. Fallen man and God's grace -- XIV. Christ's saving work -- XV. Christ's mystical body -- XVI. The later doctrine of the sacraments --
Part IV Epilogue -- XVII. The Christian hope -- 1. The tension in eschatology -- 2. Second-century conceptions -- 3. The development of dogma -- 4. Origen -- 5. Later thought: resurrection of the body -- 6. Later thought: Parousia and judgment -- 7. Life everlasting --
XVIII. Mary and the Saints -- 1. The martyrs and saints -- 2. Mary in the ante-nicene period -- 3. From Nicaes to Ephesus