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A Literary History of Early Christianity including the Fathers and the Chief Heretical Writers of the Ante-Nicene Period for the Use of Students and General Readers, 2 Vols.
Charles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911]


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Title:
A Literary History of Early Christianity including the Fathers and the Chief Heretical Writers of the Ante-Nicene Period for the Use of Students and General Readers, 2 Vols.
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Publication Year:
Location:
New York
Publisher:
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pages:
686
Subjects:
Church History, Early Church, Patristics
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Public domain

Charles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911], A Literary History of Early Christianity including the Fathers and the Chief Heretical Writers of the Ante-Nicene Period for the Use of Students and General Readers, 2 Vols.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  1. The Apostolic Fathers
    1. General Remarks
    2. Clement of Rome (Fl. A.D. 95?)
    3. The Pseudo-Clement
    4. The Epistle of Barnabas (A.D. 75?)
    5. The Didache, or Teaching of Twelve Apostles (A.D. 90?)
    6. Ignatius (A.D. 40-155)
    7. Polycarp (A.D. 69?-155)
    8. Papias and the Asiatic Elders (A.D. 70-150?)
    9. The "Shepherd of Hermas"
  2. The Heretical Sects
    1. Jewish Perversions of Christianity—Ebionisn
    2. The Clementine Literature
    3. The Early Apocryphal Literature
    4. On Gnosticism in General
    5. First Division: Gnostic Sects Not in Antogonism to Judaism—Simon—Cerinthus—Docetism
    6. Basilides and the Pseudo-Basilideans
    7. Valentinius and the Valentinians
    8. Second Division: The Anti-Judaic Gnostic Systems: Orphites—Carpocrates—Bardaisan—Julius Cassianus
    9. Marcion and His School
    10. The Early Unitarian Teachers
  3. The Apologists (A.D. 130-250)
    1. The Apologetic Litersture—The Apologetic Literature—General Remarks
    2. The Different Classes of Apologists
    3. The Earliest Apologists—Aristides—Quadratus—Agrippa Castor-—Aristo of Pella
    4. Athenagoras—Epistle to Dionetus—Dionysius of Corinth—Maximus—Theophilus
    5. Justin Martyr (A.D. 110-164)
    6. Tatian (A.D. 110-180?)
    7. The Beginnings of Church History. Hegesippus (A.D. 115?-A.D. 185?)
    8. The Later School of S. John—Melito to Polycrates
    9. Irenaeus (A.D. 125-203?)
      Appendix: Letter to the Gallican Churches
    10. The Graeco-Roman School—Muratorian Fragment—Hippolytus, Caius, Victor, and Others (A.D. 170-235?)
  4. The Alexandrian School of Theology (A.D. 175-300)
    1. General Remarks
    2. Clement (A.D. 145-220?)
    3. Origen (A.D. 185-253)—His Life
    4. Origen—His Theological System, Influence and Literary Genius
    5. The Successors of Origen
  5. Latin Christianity
    1. Latin Theory of the Church
    2. The African Church—Q. Septimius Florens Tertullianus Florens Tertullianus (A.D. 160-230?)
    3. Tertullian's Writings
    4. Cyprian (A.D. 200?-257)
    5. Roman Church—Minucius Felix—Novatian
    6. Arnobous (fl. A.D. 200?)—Lactantius (.A.D. 240-325?)—Commodian (A.D. 260?)—Victorinus Petaviensis
  • Conclusion
  • List of Authors from Whose Works Passages are Translated
  • Index
  • Index to Greek Words
  • Index to Latin Words
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