TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,J.N.D.
TI  - Early christian doctrines
SN  - 1565639111
AV  - BT 28 K297 2003
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Peabody, MA
PB  - Hendrickson
KW  - History-Christian Doctrine
N1  - 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
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