The Progress of Dogma
, by Orr, James
- ISBN: 9781573831611 | 1573831611
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/1/2000
| Idea of Course--Relation of Dogma to its History--Parallelism of Logical and Historical Developments | p. 1 |
| Introduction | |
| Dogma as an evolution in history | |
| Parallelism of logical and historical developments | |
| The law of progress as a test of dogma | |
| Early Apologetic and Fundamental Religious Ideas--Controversy with Paganism and Gnosticism (Second Century) | p. 33 |
| Double conflict of the Church of the second century with Paganism and with Gnosticism | |
| Fundamental identity of the conflicts | |
| The conflict of the Church with Paganism--Early apologetic | |
| The Conflict of the Church with Gnosticism | |
| The Doctrine of God; Trinity and Deity of Son and Spirit--Monarchian, Arian, and Macedonian Controversies (Third and Fourth Centuries) | p. 71 |
| First task of the Church in theology the determination of the concept of God as Triune, and vindication of the Deity of Son and Spirit | |
| Here also the Fathers aimed at "conservation," not invention | |
| The Third Century Monarchian Controversies | |
| Same Subject Continued--Arian and Macedonian Controversies (Fourth Century) | p. 103 |
| The Monarchian Controversies in the Third Century a prelude to the Arian Controversy in the Fourth | |
| The Arian Controversy till the Council of Nicaea | |
| The Nicene Council and after | |
| The Macedonian controversy on the Holy Spirit | |
| The Doctrine of Man and Sin; Grace and Predestination--Augustinian and Pelagian Controversy (Fifth Century) | p. 133 |
| Transition to problems of man and freedom in relation to divine grace | |
| Place and importance of the Augustinian theology--Contrast of Greek and Latin theology | |
| Augustine's experience the key to his theology | |
| Positive exhibition of Augustine's theology | |
| The Pelagian opposition | |
| Stages of the Pelagian controversy-- | |
| Augustinian doctrine of Predestination considered. Objections-- | |
| The Doctrine of the Person of Christ--The Christological Controversies: Apollinarian, Nestorian, Eutychian, Monophysite, Monothelite (Fifth to Seventh Centuries) | p. 171 |
| Relation of Christology to theology and soteriology | |
| Unlovely character of controversies, yet doctrinally inevitable | |
| Nature of the Christological problem--Connection with past developments | |
| Radical weakness of old Christology in dualistic opposition of God and man | |
| Aim of the early Church decisions--not exhaustive definition, but warding off of errors | |
| Compatibility of recognition of mystery of the incarnation with perception that certain theories imperil vital interests of faith | |
| Historical course of the controversies | |
| Apollinarian heresy--denial of a rational soul to Christ | |
| The Nestorian error--dissolving the unity of the Person of Christ | |
| The Eutychian error--confusion of the natures | |
| The Monothelite controversy--"one will" in Christ | |
| The Doctrine of Atonement--Anselm and Abelard to Reformation (Eleventh to Sixteenth Centuries) | p. 207 |
| Relation to previous developments | |
| Earlier development of the doctrine of Atonement | |
| First systematic attempt at theology of the atonement in Anselm's Cur Deus Homo | |
| The Reformation interest in Justification reacted on doctrine of Atonement | |
| The Doctrine of the Application of Redemption; Justification by Faith; Regeneration, etc.--Protestantism and Roman Catholicism (Sixteenth Century) | p. 241 |
| The Sixteenth Century the "epoch" of the doctrine of Justification | |
| Harmony of the Reformers on this doctrine--its importance | |
| In what sense a revolt against the past; the Reformation claim to continuity with the past | |
| Earlier development in its sides both of error and of truth | |
| The Reformation doctrine a response to practical needs | |
| Abiding elements in the Reformation doctrine | |
| Post-Reformation Theology: Lutheranism and Calvinism--New Influences acting on Theology and their Results in Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) | p. 277 |
| The history of dogma not closed at Reformation--Influences since acting on theology | |
| The Reformation Age as marked by productivity in creeds | |
| Task laid on Post-Reformation Church of revising and adjusting the doctrinal system in light of the whole development | |
| The new intellectual movement ending in rationalism | |
| Modern Restatement of the Problems of Theology--the Doctrine of the Last Things (Nineteenth Century) | p. 309 |
| Theological awakening in the nineteenth century, and its effects on doctrine | |
| Revolutionary movements in the commencement of the century. Ascendency of the philosophic and scientific spirit | |
| Review of particular departments | |
| The problem that bears heavily on the modern age is the Eschatological | |
| Appendix | p. 355 |
| Index | p. 361 |
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