The cross of Christ
Subtitle: studies in the history of religion and the inner life of the church
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Author's Preface I v; title: Translator's Preface ix; title: Monogrammatic Literature On The Cross, And The Sign Of The Cross xvii; title: Introduction xxvii; title: Chap. I. The Cross in the pre-Christian and extra-Christian Religions:; title: a. As the Symbol of Blessing 1; title: b. As the Symbol of the Curse 46; title: Chap. II. The Cross upon Calvary 85; title: a. According to the Declarations of the Gospels 88; title: b. According to the Testimony of the Apostolic Discourses and Writings 99; title: Chap. III. The Cross of Christ in the pre-Constantine Church and Theology 109; title: Chap. IV. Constantine's Vision of the Cross, as the starting-point for the sensuous-external adoration of the Cross in the Middle Ages 136; title: Chap. V.; title: The Cross in the Church of the Middle Ages 152; title: a. The exertion of the power of the Cross in the Missionary Activity of the Church 155; title: b. The glorifying of the majesty of the Cross in the Cultus Of The Church 161; title: c The unfolding of the beauty of the Cross in Ecclesiastical Art 180; title: d. The after-experience of the pains of the Cross in Asceticism 227; title: e. The sounding of the depths of the Cross in Theology, especially in the Mystical Theology 239; title: Chap. VI. The Cross in the Theology and Church of the Reformation 268; title: a. The spiritualising of the Idea of the Cross by the Theology of the Reformation 270; title: b. The transformation of the Cultic use of the Cross, in accordance with the Reformational Spiritualising of its Idea, and the Controversies with Romish Theologians relating thereto 295; title: c. The Idea of the Cross in Modern Art, Religious Poetry, and Speculation 310; title: Chap. VII. The Cross in the Present and Future of the Church 346; title: APPENDIX.; title: Excurse I. On the purely ornamental use of the Symbol of the Cross upon pre-Christian Monuments 373; title: II. Earlier and later Opinions with regard to the Symbolic Meaning of the Egyptian Ansate Cross 379; title: III. Paradise, according to earlier and more recent Opinions 382; title: IV. Against the assertion of an entire Irreligiousness on the part of certain Nations 393; title: V. Is it possible that Christ was crucified upon a Three-armed Cross? 401; title: VI. The single external circumstances and proceedings In The Work Of Crucifixion 409; title: VII. History of the Exposition of Ephes. iii. 18, as compared with Job xi. 8, 9, and Psalm cxxxix. 8—10 419; title: VIII. John Scotus Erigena and Fulbert of Chartres as Singers of the Cross 426; title: IX. The Sign, of the Returning Son of Man 429; title: Digitized by Google.