INTRODUCTION.✦

§ 1. IDEA AND TASK OF CHURCH HISTORY.

§ 2. DISTRIBUTION OF CHURCH HISTORY ACCORDING TO CONTENTS. (1) The Various Branches Included in a Complete Course of Church History. (2) The Separate Branches of Church History.

§ 3. DISTRIBUTION OF CHURCH HISTORY ACCORDING TO PERIODS.

§ 4. SOURCES AND AUXILIARIES OF CHURCH HISTORY. (1) Literature of the Sources. (2) Literature of the Auxiliary Sciences.

§ 5. HISTORY OF GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY. (1) Down to the Reformation. (2) The 16th and 17th Centuries. (3) The 18th Century. (4) The 19th Century. (5) The 19th Century--Continued. (6) The 19th Century--Continued.

HISTORY OF THE PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY.

The pre-Christian World preparing the way of the Christian Church.

§ 6. THE STANDPOINT OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY.

§ 7. HEATHENISM. (1) The Religious Character of Heathenism. (2) The Moral Character of Heathenism. (3) The Intellectual Culture in Heathenism. (4) The Hellenic Philosophy. (5) The Heathen State.

§ 8. JUDAISM. (1) Judaism under special Training of God through the Law and Prophecy. (2) Judaism after the Cessation of Prophecy. (3) The Synagogues. (4) Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes.

§ 9. SAMARITANISM.

§ 10. INTERCOURSE BETWEEN JUDAISM AND HEATHENISM. (1) Influence of Heathenism upon Judaism. (2) Influence of Judaism upon Heathenism.

§ 11. THE FULNESS OF TIME.

THE HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS.

The Founding of the Church by Christ and His Apostles.

§ 12. CHARACTER OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS.

I. THE LIFE OF JESUS.

§ 13. JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD. (1) Year of Birth and Year of Death of Jesus. (2) Earliest Non-Biblical Witnesses to Christ.

II. THE APOSTOLIC AGE. A.D. 30-70.

§ 14. THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES BEFORE PAUL. Beginning and Close of Apostolic Age.

§ 15. THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. Details of Paul’s Life.

§ 16. THE OTHER APOSTLES AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. (1) The Roman Episcopate of Peter. (2) The Apostle John. (3) James, the brother of the Lord. (4) The Later Legends of the Apostles.

§ 17. CONSTITUTION, WORSHIP, AND DISCIPLINE. (1) The Charismata of the Apostolic Age. (2) The Constitution of the Mother Church at Jerusalem. (3) The Constitution of the Pauline Churches. (4) The Church in the Pauline Epistles. (5) Congregational and Spiritual Offices. (6) The Question about the Original Position of the Episcopate and Presbyterate. (7) Christian Worship. (8) Christian Life and Ecclesiastical Discipline.

§ 18. HERESIES IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE. (1) Jewish Christianity and the Council of Apostles. (2) The Apostolic Basis of Doctrine. (3) False Teachers.

FIRST DIVISION.

History of the Development of the Church during the Græco-Roman and Græco-Byzantine Periods.

§ 19. CONTENT, DISTRIBUTION AND BOUNDARIES OF THOSE PERIODS.

FIRST SECTION.

History of the Græco-Roman Church during the Second and Third Centuries (A.D. 70-323).

§ 20. CONTENT, DISTRIBUTION AND BOUNDARIES OF THIS PERIOD. (1) The Post-Apostolic Age. (2) The Age of the Old Catholic Church. (3) The Point of Transition from the One Age to the Other.

I. THE RELATIONSHIP OF EXTRA-CHRISTIAN PAGANISM AND JUDAISM TO THE CHURCH.

§ 21. THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY.

§ 22. PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (1) Claudius, Nero and Domitian. (2) Trajan and Hadrian. (3) Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. (4) Septimius Severus and Maximinus Thrax. (5) Decius, Gallus and Valerian. (6) Diocletian and Galerius. (7) Maximinus Daza, Maxentius and Licinius.

§ 23. CONTROVERSIAL WRITINGS OF PAGANISM. (1) Lucian’s Satire De Morte Peregrini. (2) Worshippers of an Ass. (3) Polemic properly so-called.

§ 24. Attempted Reconstruction of Paganism. (1) Apollonius of Tyana. (2) Neo-platonism.

§ 25. Jewish and Samaritan Reaction. (1) Disciples of John. (2) The Samaritan Heresiarchs. a. Dositheus. b. Simon Magus. c. Menander.

II. DANGER TO THE CHURCH FROM PAGAN AND JEWISH ELEMENTS WITHIN ITS OWN PALE.

§ 26. GNOSTICISM IN GENERAL. (1) Gnosticism. (2) The Problems of Gnostic Speculation. (3) Distribution. (4) Sources of Information.

§ 27. THE GENTILE CHRISTIAN GNOSTICISM. (1) Cerinthus. (2) The Gnosticism of Basilides. (3) Irenæus’ Sketch of Basilideanism. (4) Valentinian Gnosticism. (5) Two Divisions of the Valentinian School. (6) The Ophites and related Sects. (7) The Gnosis of the Ophites. (8) Antinomian and Libertine Sects. a. The Nicolaitans. b. The Simonians. c. The Carpocratians. d. The Prodicians. (9) Saturninus. (10) Tatian and the Encratites. (11) Marcion and the Marcionites. (12) Marcion’s Disciples. (13) Hermogenes.

§ 28. EBIONISM AND EBIONITIC GNOSTICISM. (1) Nazareans and Ebionites. (2) The Elkesaites. (3) The Pseudo-Clementine Series of Writings. a. Homiliæ XX Clementis. b. Recognitiones Clementis. c. Epitomæ. (4) The Pseudo-Clementine Doctrinal System.

§ 29. MANICHÆISM. (1) The Founder. (2) The System. (3) Constitution, Worship, and Missionarizing.

III. THE DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT AND APOLOGETICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH.

§ 30. THE THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF THE POST-APOSTOLIC AGE, A.D. 70-170. (1) The Beginnings of Patristic Literature. (2) The Theology of the Post-Apostolic Age. (3) The so-called Apostolic Fathers. a. Clement of Rome. (4) b. Barnabas. c. Pastor Hermas. (5) d. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch. (6) e. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. f. Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis. g. Epistle to Diognetus. (7) The Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. (8) The Writings of the Earliest Christian Apologists. (9) Extant Writings of Apologists of the Post-Apostolic Age. a. Justin Martyr. (10) b. Tatian. c. Athenagoras. d. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch. e. Hermias.

§ 31. THE THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF THE OLD CATHOLIC AGE, A.D. 170-323. (1) The Theological Schools and Tendencies.

1. CHURCH FATHERS WRITING IN GREEK.

(2) Church Teachers of the Asiatic Type. a. Irenæus. (3) b. Hippolytus. (4) The Alexandrian Church Teachers. a. Pantænus. b. Titus Flavius Clement. (5) c. Origen. (6) d. Dionysius of Alexandria. e. Gregory Thaumaturgus. f. Pamphilus. (7) Greek-speaking Church Teachers in other Quarters. a. Hegesippus. b. Caius of Rome. (8) c. Sextus Julius Africanus. (9) d. Methodius. e. Lucian of Samosata.

2. CHURCH FATHERS WRITING IN LATIN.

(10) The Church Teachers of North Africa. Tertullian. (11) Cyprian. (12) Various Ecclesiastical Writers using the Latin Tongue. a. Minucius Felix. b. Commodus. c. Novatian. d. Arnobius. e. Victorinus of Pettau. f. Lucius Lactantius.

§ 32. THE APOCRYPHAL AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHICAL LITERATURE. (1) Professedly Old Heathen Prophecies. (2) Old Testament Pseudepigraphs. a. Book of Enoch. b. Assumptio Mosis. c. Fourth Book of Ezra. d. Book of Jubilees. (3) Pseudepigraphs of Christian Origin. a. History of Assenath. b. The Testaments of the XII. Patriarchs. c. Ascensio Isaiæ and Visio Isaiæ. d. Spelunca thesaurorum. (4) New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphs. I. Apocryphal Gospels. (5) II. Apocryphal Histories and Legends of the Apostles. (6) ---- Apocryphal Monographs. (7) III. Apostolic Epistles. IV. Apocryphal Apocalypses. V. Apostolical Constitutions. (8) The Acts of the Martyrs.

§ 33. THE DOCTRINAL CONTROVERSIES OF THE OLD CATHOLIC AGE. (1) The Trinitarian Questions. (2) The Alogians. (3) The Theodotians and Artemonites. (4) Praxeas and Tertullian. (5) The Noëtians and Hippolytus. (6) Beryllus and Origen. (7) Sabellius; Dionysius of Alexandria; Dionysius of Rome. (8) Paul of Samosata. (9) Chiliasm.

IV. CONSTITUTION, WORSHIP, LIFE AND DISCIPLINE.

§ 34. THE INNER ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH. (1) The Continuation of Charismatic Endowments into Post-Apostolic Times. (2) The Development of the Episcopal Hierarchy. (3) The Regular Ecclesiastical Offices of the Old Catholic Age. (4) Clergy and Laity. (5) The Synods. (6) Personal and Epistolary Intercourse. (7) The Unity and Catholicity of the Church. (8) The Roman Primacy.

§ 35. THE ADMINISTRATION OF BAPTISM. (1) The Preparation for Receiving Baptism. (2) The Baptismal Formula. (3) The Administration of Baptism. (4) The Doctrine of Baptism. (5) The Controversy about Heretics’ Baptism.

§ 36. PUBLIC WORSHIP AND ITS VARIOUS PARTS. (1) The Agape. (2) The Missa Catechumenorum. (3) The Missa Fidelium. (4) The Disciplina Arcani. (5) The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. (6) The Sacrificial Theory. (7) The Use of Scripture. (8) Formation of a New Testament Canon. (9) The Doctrine of Inspiration. (10) Hymnology.

§ 37. FEASTS AND FESTIVAL SEASONS. (1) The Festivals of the Christian Year. (2) The Paschal Controversies. (3) The Ecclesiastical Institution of Fasting.

§ 38. THE CHURCH BUILDINGS AND THE CATACOMBS. (1) The Catacombs. (2) The Antiquities of the Catacombs. (3) Pictorial Art and the Catacombs. (4) Pictorial and Artistic Representations. a. Significant Symbols. b. Allegorical Figures. c. Parabolic Figures. d. Historical Pictures of O. T. Types. e. Figures from the Gospel History. f. Liturgical Figures.

§ 39. LIFE, MANNERS, AND DISCIPLINE. (1) Christian Morals and Manners. (2) The Penitential Discipline. (3) Asceticism. (4) Paul of Thebes. (5) Beginning of Veneration of Martyrs. (6) Superstition.