Eucharist and penance in the first six centuries of the church
Subtitle: authorized trans. from the 2nd German ed.
Publisher: Freiburg (Baden) Germany [etc.] B. Herder
Published: 1913
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church.; Penance.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART I. THE HOLY EUCHARIST; title: § 1.— The Real Presence I; title: The Question Stated, 1 — Doctrine of the Didache, 2 — of Ignatius, 3 — of Justin, 5 — of Irenaeus, 6 — of Clement of Alexandria and Origen, 7 — of Tertullian, 11 — of Cyprian, 15 — of Chrysostom,; title: 18 — of Augustine, 19.; title: § 2. — Transubstantiation 25; title: Teaching of the Church, 25 — Indecision in regard to this doctrine before 1200 exaggerated by Batiffol, 26 — Teaching of Justin, 30 — of Irenaeus, 32 — of Tertullian, 33 — of Cyril of Jerusalem, 34 — of Chrysostom, 35 — of Gregory of Nyssa, 35 — of Ambrose. 38 — of Cyril of Alexandria, 39 — of Theodore 01 Mopsuestia, 40 — of John Damascene, 40 — The precision of the doctrine in the Greek and Latin Churches, 42.; title: § 3.— The Institution of the Eucharist 44 A general survey of the new theories of present-day liberal Protestantism in regard to the LastSupper, 44 — Biblical accounts of the institution, 45 —; title: Spitta and Schweitzer, 49 — Andersen, 50 — Johann Hoffmann, 53 — Holtzmann, 56 — K. G. Goetz, 57 — Criticism, 59.; title: § 4. — The Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass  62  Renz's book on this subject, 62 — His concept of the mass the concept of Christian antiquity, 64 — Recent theories in regard to the mass, 65 — Renz's idea that the essence of the mass lies in communion untrue, 67 — His appeal to Justin, Irenaeus,  Cyprian and Gregory the Great, unwarranted, 67  — Scripture affords us evidence of the sacrificial  character of the Eucharist, 71 — Cyprian introduced no new theory of sacrifice into the church,  73 — Wieland-Dorsch controversy, 75 — Wieland's  error in claiming that the celebration of the Eucharist in the primitive church bore the character  of a common meal, 77 — Sacrifice proper something more than gift-offering, 81 — Examination  of Wieland's main contentions, 83 — According to  the N. T., 83 — The Didache, 86 — Clement of  Rome, 86 — Ignatius, 87 — Apologists of the second century, 87 — Clement of Alexandria, 91 —  Tertullian and Irenaeus, 92 — Conclusions, 94.; title: § 5. — The Canon of the Mass 98   The Eucharistic prayer of the Didache, 98 — Justin's  testimony in regard to the prayer of consecration, 101 — The recently discovered canon of Serapion,  bishop of Thmuis, 102 — Derivation of the canon from the ritual of the Jewish Pasch, 106 — Derivation from the Jewish religious meal service, 107 — Origin of the Roman canon according to Drews,  110 — According to Baumstark, 111 — Funk's appreciation, 112 — Criticism, 113.; title: § 6.— The Epiclesis 115   The universality and antiquity of the Epiclesis, 116   — The Epiclesis first a mooted question in the 15th  century, 117 — Explanation of the Epiclesis, 120   — The teaching of tradition on the moment of  consecration, 123 — Conclusion, 128 — List of  Patristic passages on the subject, 130.; title: § 7.— Frequent Communion in the Early Church and   the Preparation Demanded for It 134   Sunday the regular day for the Eucharistic service,  135 — Daily Eucharistic sacrifice in Africa in the  3rd century, 136 — Likewise daily in the Western  Church, less often in the Oriental Church, 137 —  First utterance of complaints about the negligence  of the faithful in receiving communion, 140 —  Monastic rule of weekly communion, 142 — Communion in the homes of Christians, 144 — Eulogia,  145 — Communion to infants, 146 — Disposition  of the soul for Communion, 147 — of the body, 149.; title: PART II. THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE; title: § 8.— Ecclesiastical Absolution from Capital Sins in   the First Three Centuries 152   Data in the controversy, 152 — The Shepherd of  Hermas on the penitential discipline, 155 — Dionysius of Corinth, 159 — Irenaeus, 160 — The  De paenitentia and De pudicitia of Tertullian, 161  — The controversy and Cyprian, 165 — Conclusion  in regard to the ecclesiastical discipline in the  Latin Church, 173 — The attitude of the Oriental  Church, 180.; title: § 9. — Public Confession. 184 Definitions, 184 — Public confession required for  capital sins committed publicly, 187 — The three  capital sins to be regarded generically, 191 —  Broader conception of the sins mortal, 192 — The  seven capital sins, 193; title: §10.— Public Penance  194   Direction of the public penance, 104 — Was it required for secret sins? 196 — Forms of public penance, 199 — Classes of penitents, 201— "Peaceletters" of the martyrs, 203 — No repetition of  public penance, 207 — Submission to this discipline  at the hour of death, 207 — Relaxation of the early  discipline from the fifth century onward, 209 —  Disappearance of the system in the East, 210 — in  the West, 212.; title: §10.— Auricular Confession 213   Obscurity of the question, 214 — Criticism of recent  literature on the subject, 216 — No sacramental  absolution given before penance was performed,  219 — Private confession m close connection with  public penance, 223 — Increasing importance and  spread of private confession in the fourth and  fifth centuries, 225 — Confession of capital sins  demanded, 226 — Objections from Origen, 230 —  from Tertullian, 230 — from Augustine, 231 —  from Chrysostom, 231 — Difference between the  present practice of penance and confession and  that of early Christian times, 234 — The practice  of confession in the ancient monasteries, 238 —  Universal spread of periodic confession in the  early Middle Ages, 240 — The deprecatory formula  of absolution, 242 — Sacramental character of ab-  solution, 243 — The power of binding and loosing  exclusively exercised by the monks in the Greek  Church, 246 — The seal of confession, 249.; title: § 12.— Retrospect 250; title: Index 253