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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