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CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
CHAPTER IV | ||
THE SOURCES OF DOCTRINE: ORAL TRADITION— HOLY SCRIPTURE | ||
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Earliest idea of Christian inspiration of tradition | 41 | |
Inspiration of Scripture: different conceptions— | ||
Jewish | 43 | |
Gentile | 44 | |
Philo | 44 | |
The Apostolic Fathers | 45 | |
Muratorian Fragment of the Canon | 45 | |
The Apologists | 46 | |
Irenaeus | 47 | |
Clement and Origen | 48 | |
Interpretation of Scripture. The written word— | ||
Homer | 49 | |
Philo | 51 | |
Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement | 52,53 | |
Origen's theory | 53 | |
The Cappadocians — Tyconius, Augustine—The School of Antioch | 55 | |
The place of tradition in interpretation— | ||
Irenaeus | 55 | |
Tertullian | 57 | |
Vincent | 59 | |
CHAPTER V | ||
JEWISH ATTEMPTS AT INTERPRETATION. EBIONISM | ||
Characteristic Jewish conceptions | 62 | |
Ebionism— | ||
Different degrees | 63-65 | |
Cerinthus | 65 f. | |
The Clementines | 66 f. | |
Note: Chiliasm | 68 ff. | |
CHAPTER VI | ||
GENTILE ATTEMPTS AT INTERPRETATION. | ||
GNOSTICISM. | ||
Characteristics of Oriental religious thought | 72 | |
The problem of evil | 73-75 | |
Oriental ideas applied to the Christian revelation | 75 |