Status
Available
Collection
Description
A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christianity across the world. The first volume introduces the central figures and debates culminating in the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon among which the theologies of the early church were hammered out.
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Publication
Abingdon Press (1970), 409 pages
Language
ISBN
0687171741 / 9780687171743
Contents
The Cradle of Christianity --
The Theology of the Apostolic Fathers --
The Greek Apologists --
The Early Heresies: Challenge and Response --
Irenaeus --
Tertullian --
The School of Alexandria: Clement and Origen --
Western Theology in the Third Century --
Eastern Theology After Origen --
The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea --
The Arian Controversy After Nicea --
The Theology of Athanasius --
The Three Great Cappadocians --
Trinitarian Doctrine in the West --
The Beginnings of the Christological Controversies --
The Nestorian Controversy and the Council of Ephesus --
The Council of Chalcedon --
Apostolic or Apostate?
The Theology of the Apostolic Fathers --
The Greek Apologists --
The Early Heresies: Challenge and Response --
Irenaeus --
Tertullian --
The School of Alexandria: Clement and Origen --
Western Theology in the Third Century --
Eastern Theology After Origen --
The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea --
The Arian Controversy After Nicea --
The Theology of Athanasius --
The Three Great Cappadocians --
Trinitarian Doctrine in the West --
The Beginnings of the Christological Controversies --
The Nestorian Controversy and the Council of Ephesus --
The Council of Chalcedon --
Apostolic or Apostate?