Title: Early Christian doctrines /
Authors: Kelly, J. N. D.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal History; Theology, Doctrinal History
Abstract: "A history of doctrines of the early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar, the principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. Canon Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, and from the end of the apostolic age to the council of Chalcedon. His book thus covers the great doctrinally creative period in the Church's history, the centuries in which there was a constant upsurge of fresh ideas before the settled formalism of both the East and West. He gives the student and invaluable outline of Church history and patrology against which to place the evolving theological doctrines which he summarises and expounds"--Back cover.
Contents: Pt. 1: Prolegomena -- The background -- Tradition and Scripture -- The holy Scriptures -- Pt. 2: The pre-Nicene theology -- The divine triad -- Third-century Trinitarianism -- The beginnings of Christology -- Man and his redemption -- The Christian community -- Pt. 3: From Nicaea to Chalcedon -- The Nicene crisis -- The doctrine of the Trinity -- Fourth-century Christology -- The Christological settlement -- Fallen man and God's grace -- Christ's saving work -- Christ's mystical body -- The later doctrine of the sacraments -- Pt. 4: Epilogue -- The Christian hope -- Mary and the saints.