Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (1886–90 Harnack), book

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Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (1886-90) is a book by Adolf von Harnack.

Abstract

In this five volume work, Adolf von Harnack undertakes a massive scholarly project, seeking to trace the history of Christian dogma from its origins through the fourth and fifth centuries CE. Unlike Baur before him, who saw two types Christianity, namely Jewish Christianity and Gentile Christianity, one vying with the other to define what was the nature of Christianity and to gain more controlf, Harnack argued that the development of Christian dogma occurred through the progressive hellenization of the gospel, whereby the gospel of Jesus was transplanted 'into Greek modes of thought'. For him, Jewish Christianity played little to no influence in this process at all.

With respect, in particular, to the Incarnation, Harnack...

Editions

Published in Freiburg i.B.: Mohr, <3 vols.> 1886-90 / 4th ed. 1909-10.

Translations

Contents

Table of Contents (English Trans).

Volume I

  • Chapter I: Prolegomena to the Stuyd of the History of Dogma
    • 1 - The Idea and Task of the History of Dogma
    • 2 - History of the History of Dogma
  • Chapter II
    • 1 - Introductory
      • The Gospel and the OT
      • The Detachment of the Christians from the Jewish Church
      • The Church and the Graeco-Roman World
      • The Greek spirit an element of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine of Faith
      • Elements connecting Primitive Christianity and the growing Catholic Church
      • The Presuppositions of the origin of the Apostolic Catholic Doctrine of Faith
    • 2 - The Gospel of Jesus Christ According to his own Testimony
    • 3 - The Common Preaching
    • 4 - The current Exposition of the OT and the Jewish hopes of the future
    • 5 - The Religious Conceptions and Philosophy of Hellenistic Jews/Their significance for the later formation of the Gospel
    • 6 - The Religious Dispositions of Greeks and Romans
  • Supplementary
  • Book I
    • Chapter I - Historical Survey
    • Chapter II - Element Common to all Christians and the Breach with Judaism
    • Chapter III - Common Faith and the Beginnings of Knowledge in Gentile Christianity as it was Developed and Canonized
    • Chapter IV - The Attempts of the Gnostics to Create an Apostolic Dogmatic, and A Christian Theology; The Acute Secularizing of Christianity
    • Chapter V - The Attempt of Marcion to Set Aside the OT Foundation of Christianity
    • Chapter VI - The Christianity of Jewish Christians, Definition of the Notion of Jewish Christianity
    • Appendices


Volume II

  • Chapter I - Historical Survey
  • Chapter II - The setting up of the Apostolic Standards for Ecclesiastical Christianity
  • Chapter III - The Old Christianity into the New Church
  • Chapter IV - Ecclesiastical Christianity and Philosophy
      • The doctrines of Christianity as the revealed and rational religion
      • The Monotheistic Cosmology
      • Theology
      • Doctrine of the Logos
      • Doctrine of the World and of Man
  • Chapter V - The Beginnings of an Ecclesiastico-theological interpretation and revision of the Rule of Faith in opposition to Gnosticism
  • The Transformation of the Ecclesiastical Tradition into a Philosophy of Religion, or the Origin of the Scientific Theology and Dogmatic of the Church

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