Patristic study
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1902
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I; title: INTRODUCTORY; title: Apostolic and post-Apostolic Christian literature — Neglect of the latter-r-Its claim on the attention of the English clergy — Origin of the name " Fathers " — Narrower and wider use — Limits of the subject — Classification 1-10; title: CHAPTER II; title: FATHERS OF THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES; title: The "Apostolic Fathers" ; Clement of Eome — Ignatius — Polycarp — Barnabas — Didache or Shepherd of Hennas — A primitive Homily. The Greek Apologists : Aristides — Justin — Tatian, etc. — Letter to Diognetus. Controversy with the Jews : Justin's Dialogue with Trypho. Gnostics and Anti-Gnostics : Irenseus — The Philosophumena. Apocryphal gospels, etc. — The Clementines , 11-42; title: CHAPTER III; title: FATHERS OF THE THIRD CENTURY; title: Hippolytus of Portus. The Alexandrians ; Clement — Origen — Dionysius. Other Greek writers of the century : Julius Africanus — Gregory the Wonderworker — Pamphilus — Methodius. Latin writers : The Carthaginians — Tertullian — Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs — Passion of Perpetua — Cyprian — Arnohius — Lactantius. Roman writers : Minucius Felix — Novatian — Commodianus 43-73; title: CHAPTER IV; title: POST-NICENE FATHERS (GREEK AND EASTERN); title: Eusebius of Caesarea. Athanasius — Didymus the Blind. Cyril of Jerusalem — Epiphanius. The Cappadocians: Basil — Gregory of Nazianzus — Gregory of Nyssa. The Antiochenes ; Diodore — Theodore — John Chrysostom— Theodoret. Cyril of Alexandria — Synesius. Macarius Magnes — Palladius. Syrian writers : Ephraem — Aphraates. The Pseudo- Areopagite — John of Damascus — Photius 74-1 14; title: CHAPTER V; title: POST-NICENE FATHERS (LATIN); title: Lucifer — Hilary of Poictiers — Ambrose. Augustine. Jerome — Rufinus. Popes: Damasus — Leo. Writers of South Gaul : John Cassian — Honoratus — Hilary of Arles — Vincentius. Western poets and historians. Gregory the Great— Bede 116-141; title: CHAPTER VI; title: COURSES AND METHODS OF PATRISTIC STUDY; title: Two modes of approaching the study— (1) General reading : Method — Suggested course ; (2) Reading for a special purpose : Use of the Fathers hy the student of Biblical criticism — Exegesis — History — Dogmatic theology — Christian antiquities — Pastoralia 142-179; title: CHAPTER VII; title: HELPS TO PATRISTIC STUDY; title: Early editions — Migne's Cursus completes — Editions of separate Fathers or works — Translations — Introductions to Patristics — General Bibliography of the subject 180-194