Primitive Catholicism
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London, England; New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: Introduction to the Fifth French Edition (1911) v; title: CHAPTER I.; title: THE JEWISH DISPERSION AND CHRISTIANITY.; title: I. Had the Judaism of the Dispersion any tendency to become a Church?  — Legal and social status of the Dispersion  —  Religious and national institutions —  Jewish hellenization, nothing apart from the religious and national life  —  Proselytism aims at imposing circumcision, and uncircumcized proselytes do not belong to God's people  —  In what way the body of proselytes paved the way for Christianity    1; title: II. Political confusion of Christianity with Judaism  —  In the year 64 this confusion comes to an end  —  Testimony of Tacitus  —  Christianity is legally forbidden  —  Pliny and Trajan  —  Nero, the first to interdict Christianity : testimony of Tertullian and of Suetonius 1; title: III. Christianity, no mere spiritual movement  —  Subordination of the outpourings of the Spirit, i.e. of charisms, to the good order of the communities and to the received faith  —  Christianity, no mere brotherhood of love and of mutual aid  —  Christianity, a religion of cities  —  Christianity, not a religion of colleges  —  Christianity, a religio illiota and a corpus or association 28; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE INFANT CHURCH.; title: I. The apostolate of the first Christian generation, not an institution borrowed from Judaism  —  Various meanings of the word Apostle  —  The apostolate, not a charism  —  Notion of the apostolate, in St. Paul  —  The Apostles of the circumcized  —  The Twelve  —  There are not three contradictory notions of the apostolate  —  The apostolate, a principle of unity and authority laid down by Christ Himself 37; title: II. Churches and the Church in the first Christian generation  —  The earliest missions to the Gentiles  —  The decree of the Apostles  —  Peter and Paul at Antioch, and the principle of the unity of the new people in Jesus Christ 65; title: Christianity, not a "wisdom," but a catechesis  —  Notion of the deposit of faith, and of the Apostle as pledge for the divine authority of the Gospel  —  The initiation, baptism in the name of Christ  —  Worship in common, Sunday synaxis, Eucharist  —  Mutual supervision, expulsion of the sinner  —  Those who preside 64; title: The assembly of the faithful of the same city, called a Church  — The Churches of Christ  —  The Church of God  —  The Church, Christ's mystical body  —  The tertium genus inaugurated upon earth by Christianity 69; title: Excursus A; title: The Church in the Gospel, value of Matt. xvi. 18-19 75; title: CHAPTER III.; title: THE INFANT CHURCH (continued).; title: I. The second Christian generation  —  The Pauline Epistles of the captivity —  The saints, the episcopi , and the deacons of Philippi  —  Ecclesiology of the "Didache"  —  Ecclesiology of the "Prima Petri"   — St. Paul's last instructions, Ecclesiology of the Pastoral Epistles —  Johannine ecclesiology 97; title: II. The Epistle of St. Clement of Rome —  Transformation of the notion of charism  —  Discipline by means of authority  —  The received faith  —  The canon of tradition  —  The hierarchy  —  The intervention of Rome at Corinth  —  Criticism of Sohm's theory 129; title: III. The Epistles of St. Ignatius of Antioch  —  Discipline —  The hierarchy  — The unity of each Church  —  Heresy  —  The "dogmas" of the Lord and of the Apostles  —  The bishop makes the unity of each Church  —  Jesus makes the unity of the "Catholic Church"  —  The primacy of the Roman Church 181; title: Conclusion, the Infant Church is Catholic 142; title: Excursus B.; title: Critical examination of Protestant theories on the formation of Catholicism 148; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: THE CATHOLICISM OF ST. IRENIEUS.; title: The ecclesiological principles of Iremeus, not his creation 164; title: I. St. Polycarp of Smyrna : discipline and tradition  —  Solidarity of Churches —  Irenffius and Polycarp  —  Anicetus and Polycarp  —  The Martyrium Polycarpi and the word "Catholic"  —  Papias : his notion of tradition —  Hegesippus : succession of bishops, the justification of the tradition —  Catholicity of tradition  —  Aberoius : the same criterion of faith  — Pantenus and the presbyters, on the true tradition  —  Is the epilogue of the Epistle to Diognetus by Pantenus?  —  The Secunda Clementis and the "Pneumatic" Church  —  Dionysius of Corinth and the Roman Church  —  Ecclesiology of the "Shepherd" of Hennas  —  St. Justin : the deposit of faith, apostolic tradition, heresies  —  The catholicity of the Church —  Christendom, as seen by Celsus: heresies and the "great Church"  —  Synthesis of the preceding testimonies    164; title: II. Importance of the ecclesiology of St. Irenreus  —  Catholicity and unanimity of Christendom  —  Sources of unanimity: the Prophets, the Lord, the Apostles  —  The succession of bishops authenticates the tradition of the Apostles —  The Holy Ghost and the indefectibility of the Church  —  The primacy of the Roman Church —  Criticisms of Gnosticism : it is a reaction against the existing Church  —  Synthesis of the principles of Irenaus 197; title: III. Contemporary facta  —  The Church and the spirit of prophecy  —  In what way Montaniam is a novelty  —  How it is eliminated without any general crisis  —  The question of Easter —  Conflict between Pope Victor and Polycrates of Ephesus  —  Nature of Victor's intervention 217; title: Catholic and Roman, a criticism of Harnack 228; title: Excursus C.; title: Marrionism and Catholicism 280; title: Excursus D.; title: The end of Judao-Christianity 288; title: CHAPTER V.; title: THE CASE OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.; title: Clement's so-called characteristic 246; title: Clement and the apostolic canon of the New Testament  —  Clement and the ecclesiastical canon of faith  —  The tradition of the Apostles, through the presbyters  —  Apostolicity of the episcopate  —  Presbyters, deacons and laity  —  The bishop's supremacy  —  The Church, a condition of salvation 247; title: Unity and catholicity of the Church —  Economy of Clement's doctrine; philosophy, faith, gnosis —  Faith rests on authority and on tradition  — Heresies are many, various, new  —  Clement does not depart from the common tradition 254; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: TERTULLIAN'S VARIATIONS.; title: Tradition in Tertullian 264; title: I. The treatise on prescription  —  Animosity against philosophy  —  The rule of faith  —  It is justified by tradition  —  Tradition is apostolic  —  Heresies are subsequent to the Apostles  —  The praescriptio longi temporis  —  Tertullian's argument, properly speaking, an argument of discussion, not of prescription  —  Bearing of Tertullian's discussion  —  Detailed features of Tertullian's ecclesiology  —  The hierarchical Church 264; title: II. The evolution of Tertullian  —  Opposition between tradition and truth  — The working of the Spirit in the Church  —  Revelation continued by the new prophecy  —  Rome condemns this principle  —  Tertullian's revolt  — His invective against the hierarchy and against Callistus  —  New and anarchical character of Tertullian's paradox  —  Tertullian's final isolation 281; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: ORIGEN AND GREEK ORTHODOXY.; title: Doctrine, in Origen 295; title: The Church, a close society  —  The Church, a society in which there is a hierarchy  —  The bishop's supremacy —  His eminent dignity  —  Duties of the clergy and their remissness  —  Origen's error regarding the subordination of the power of Orders to the holiness of the minister 298; title: The ecclesiastical doctrine is apostolic tradition  —  Canon of Holy Scripture  — Baptismal symbol  —  Living magisterium  —  Function of the doctore Ecclesiae  —  Heretics or heterodox condemned in the name of tradition —  Refuted by the teaching of the doctor  —  Bishops, judges of doctrine 319; title: Why Origen says "the Churches" rather than "the Church"  —  Analogy between the Church and the city —  Visible unity of all the Churches  — Origen and St. Peter's primacy  —  The Roman primacy 322; title: Shortcomings of Origen's ecclesiology 329; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: ST. CYPRIAN AND ROME.; title: Tradition in St. Cyprian 332; title: I. Ecclesiastical organization in Cyprian's time  —  The plebs and the ordo  — The bishop, successor of the Apostles ; his election and supreme power —  Office of priests and deacons  —  Lectorate and minor orders  —  Maintenance of the clergy  —  Share of the plebs in the government of the Church  —  The Church, a social community  —  Excommunication of the disobedient and of sinners  —  Provincial councils  —  Had Carthage the primacy in Africa?  —  Relations between the Churches of the whole world  —  Unity of the whole episcopate  —  Is the hierarchical conception of the Church peculiar to Cyprian? 333; title: II. No reconciliation of the lapsi, without the bishop  —  The bishop, the foundation of his Church  —  Outside the Church, no reconciliation, no sacrifice, no priesthood  —  Revolt of Felioissimus at Carthage, and of Novatian at Rome  —  The Council of Carthage (May, 251) condemns Felioissimus  —  Cyprian writes the "De Unitate ecclesiae," against Novatian and the Roman schism  —  Analysis of the treatise  —  The Church, a condition for the validity of the sacramental powers  —  The promise made by Christ to St. Peter  —  Imperfection of Cyprian's ecclesiology 350; title: The two editions of the "De Unitate ecclesiae" 366; title: III. Felioissimus appeals to Rome  —  Cyprian's protest  —  Claim of the Council of Africa to supreme power in Africa  —  The case of the Spanish bishops —  The subordination of the power of Orders to the holiness of the minister  —  The case of Marcianos of Arles  —  Cyprian's unexpected recourse to Rome  —  Gallicanism and Donatism in germ, in the doctrine of the Africans 378; title: IV. The baptismal controversy  —  Cyprian's position : outside the Church, no baptism, because outside the Church, no Holy Ghost  —  Similar decision of the Council of Carthage of 255 and 256  —  Rome declares against Carthage  —  Pope Stephen's letter : reassertion of the Roman primacy, and of the validity ex opere operato of baptism  —  Protest of the Council of Carthage, in September 256  —  Rome lays the subject before the Catholic world  —  Firmilian unites with Cyprian against Pope Stephen  — Firmilian's ecclesiology  —  Death of Cyprian and of Stephen  —  Principles raised by the baptismal controversy  —  Cyprian's contradictions: traditional character of Rome 381; title: General conclusions 408