CONTENTS
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| The Gnostics — their aims and classification of the various schools | 76-79 | |
| The earlier representatives of Gnostic conceptions | 79-81 | |
| Marcion and his followers | 81-84 | |
| Carpocrates and his followers — The Cainites and Ophites | 84-86 | |
| The School of Basilides | 86-88 | |
| The Valentinians | 89-91 | |
| The influence of Gnosticism on the developement of Christian doctrine | 91-92 | |
| Note: Manicheism | 93-95 | |
| CHAPTER VII | ||
| THE REACTION AGAINST GNOSTICISM. | ||
| MONARCHIANISM | ||
| The 'Monarchian' School of interpreters prompted by 'orthodox' intention | 96 | |
| Attempts at explanation which should maintain alike the oneness of God and the divinity of Christ | 97 | |
| Two main Schools— | ||
| (a) Dynamic or Rationalistic | 97 | |
| (b) Modalistic or 'Patripassian' | 97 | |
| The Alogi the point of departure for both Schools | 98 | |
| (a) The Theodotians | 98 | |
| Artemon | 99 | |
| Paul of Samosata | 100-102 | |
| (b) Praxeas and Noetus | 102-104 | |
| Sabellius and his followers | 104-106 | |
| Sympathy with Sabellianism at Rome | 106 | |
| Notes: Novatian | 107 | |
| Hippolytus | 108 | |
| Beryllus | 109 | |
| Monarchian exegesis | 110 | |
| Lucian | 110 | |
| Paul of Samosata and ὁμοούσιος | 111 | |
| CHAPTER VIII | ||
| THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DIONYSIUS OF ROME AND DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA | ||
| Significance of this correspondence | 113 | |
| The points at issue | 114-115 | |
| Diverse uses of the equivocal terms οὐσία and ὑπόστασις and confusion due to Latin rendering of οὐσία by substantia | 116-118 | |
