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'''Die christliche Lehre von der Dreieinigkeit und Menschwerdung Gottes in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung''' (1841-43) is a book by [[Ferdinand Christian Baur]]. 

==Abstract ==

In this work, as in his earlier 1838 publication on "Die christliche Lehre von der Versöhnun," Baur presents the Incarnation as the most important and distinct doctrine of Christianity.  Indeed for him the Incarnation of the pre-existent Logos (Jesus) into human flesh becomes the climactic apogee of God's unfolding plan of salvation by which God is able to mediate into the world of human sin. Although he applies critical methods to the study of the origins and development of this doctrine, like many of his contemporaries, Baur assumed that the doctrine was explicitly embedded throughout the entire corpus of the New Testament.  

As the founder and chief proponent of the Tübingen School, scholars typically think of Baur in relation to the way in which he applied the Hegelian system of thesis, antithesis, and ultimately synthesis to the rise of early Christian.  Accordingly, Baur proposed that early Christianty was defined by a struggle between two opposing parties.  On the one hand there Petrine group (thesis) composed of Jewish-Christians, while on the other hand there was a Pauline group (antithesis) that stood in opposition to the others.  The struggle between these two factions ultimately enabled the synthesis of orthodox to arise.  

What is less know about Baur's scholarship is that he employed a similar Hegelian approach to the rise of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation.  From Baur precursors to the doctrine of the Incarnation and of the triune God could be found in Pagan literature (thesis) as well as Jewish literature (antithesis).  As early Christianity took shape, the struggle between these two poles led to the ultimate synthesis of the Christian doctrines, which superceeded both of its opposing precursors.  ~Deborah Forger

==Editions and translations==

Published in [[Tübingen, Germany]]: [[Osiander]], <3 vols.> 1841, 1842, 1843

==Contents==


Einleitung

* Die vorchristlichen Religion
** Das Heidentum
** Das Judenthum

* Die christliche Lehre des neuen Testaments
** Das Christentum als absolute Religion
** Die Elemente des christlichen Trinitatis Begriffs im neuen Testament
** Verhältnis des johanneischen Logos zum philonischen

* Der allgemeine Entwicklungsgang des Kirchlichen Dogma und die Perioden desselben

* Die bisherigen Bearbeitungen der Geschichte des Dogma


Volume I - Das Dogma der alten Kirche bis zur Synode von Chalcedon 

Erste Ubschnitt - von der ältesten Zeit bis zur Synode von Nicäa

*1 - Die ältesten, der Logos = Idee vorangehenden und von ihr unabhängigen Vorstellungen
** Die apostolischen Väter
** Die gnostischen Systeme
** Die pseudo clementinischen homilien und der Ebionitismus

* 2 - Die von der Logos = Idee ausgehenden Kirchenlehrer
** Justin Martyr, Tatian, Theophilus, Athenagoras, Irenaus, Tertullian

* 3 - Die alexandrinischen Kirchenlehrer Clemens und Origenes

* 4 - Die Monarchianer oder die Unitarier

* 5 - Die Schüler des Origenes, der alexandrinische und römische Dionysius, der Anfang des arianischen Streits, die Synode zu Nicae

Zweiter Abschnitt - Von der Synode in Nicea bis zur Synode in Constantinopel im 381

Dritter Ubschnitt - Von der zweiten ökumenischen Synode von Konstantinopel im 381 bis zur ökumenischen Synod in Chalcedon im 451



Volume 2 - Das Dogma des Mittelalters 



Volume 3 - Die neuere Geschichte des Dogma, von der Reformation bis in die neueste Zeit

==External links==

*[ Google Books]


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