Creeds Of Christendom With A History And Critical Notes

1 TO HIS HONORED AND BELOVED COLLEAGUES 2 PREFACE 3 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 4 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 5 PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 6 PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 8 ADDITIONS TO THE LITERATURE 9 FIRST CHAPTER. OF CREEDS IN GENERAL. 10 § 1. Name and Definition. 11 § 2. Origin of Creeds. 12 § 3. Authority of Creeds. 13 § 4. Value and Use of Creeds. 14 § 5. Classification of Creeds. 15 SECOND CHAPTER. THE OECUMENICAL CREEDS. 16 § 6. General Character of the OEcumenical Creeds. 17 § 7. The Apostles' Creed. 18 § 8. The Nicene Creed. 19 § 9. The Creed of Chalcedon. 20 § 10. The Athanasian Creed. 21 THIRD CHAPTER. THE CREEDS OF THE GREEK CHURCH. 22 § 11. The Seven OEcumenical Councils. 23 § 12. The Confessions of Gennadius, A.D. 1453. 24 § 13. The Answers of Patriarch Jeremiah to the Lutherans, A.D. 1576. 25 § 14. The Confession of Metrophanes Critopulus, A.D. 1625. 26 § 15. The Confession of Cyril Lucar, A.D. 1631. 27 § 16. The Orthodox Confession of Mogilas, A.D. 1643. 28 § 17. The Synod of Jerusalem and the Confession of Dositheus, A.D. 1672. 29 § 18. The Synods of Constantinople, A.D. 1672 and 1691. 30 § 19. The Doctrinal Standards of the Russo-Greek Church. 31 § 20. Anglo-Catholic Correspondence with the Russo-Greek Church. 32 § 21. The Eastern Sects: Nestorians, Jacobites, Copts, Armenians. 33 FOURTH CHAPTER. THE CREEDS OF THE ROMAN CHURCH. 34 § 22. Catholicism and Romanism. 35 § 23. Standard Expositions of the Roman Catholic System. 36 § 24. The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent. 37 § 25. The Profession of the Tridentine Faith, 1564. 38 § 26. Roman Catechism, 1566. 39 § 27. The Papal Bulls against the Jansenists, 1653 and 1713. 40 § 28. The Papal Definition of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, 1854. 41 § 29. The Argument for the Immaculate Conception. 42 § 30. The Papal Syllabus, A.D. 1864. 43 § 31. The Vatican Council, 1870. 44 § 32. The Vatican Decrees. The Constitution on the Catholic Faith. 45 § 33. The Vatican Decrees, Continued. The Infallibility Decree. 46 § 34. Papal Infallibility Explained, and Tested by Tradition and Scripture. 47 § 35. The Liturgical Standards of the Roman Church. 48 § 36. The Old Catholics. 49 FIFTH CHAPTER. THE CREEDS OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES. 50 § 37. The Reformation. Protestantism and Romanism. 51 § 38. The Evangelical Confessions of Faith. 52 § 39. The Lutheran and Reformed Confessions. 53 § 40. The Lutheran Confessions. 54 § 41. The Augsburg Confession, 1530. 55 § 42. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, A.D. 1530-1531. 56 § 43. Luther's Catechisms. A.D. 1529. 57 § 44. The Articles of Smalcald. A.D. 1537. 58 § 45. The Form of Concord. A.D. 1577. 59 § 46. The Form of Concord, Concluded. 60 § 47. Superseded Lutheran Symbols. The Saxon Confession. The Würtemberg Confession. 1551. 61 § 48. The Saxon Visitation Articles, 1592. 62 § 49. AN ABORTIVE SYMBOL AGAINST SYNCRETISM, 1655. 63 § 50. The Reformed Confessions. 64 § 51. Zwinglian Confessions. 65 § 52. Zwingli's Distinctive Doctrines. 66 § 53. The First Confession of Basle. A.D. 1534. 67 § 54. The First Helvetic Confession, A.D. 1536. 68 § 55. The Second Helvetic Confession, A.D. 1566. 69 § 56. John Calvin. His Life and Character. 70 § 57. Calvin's Work. 71 § 58. The Catechism of Geneva. A.D. 1536 AND 1541. 72 § 59. The Consensus of Zurich. A.D. 1549. 73 § 60. The Consensus of Geneva. A.D. 1552. 74 § 61. The Helvetic Consensus Formula. A.D. 1675. 75 § 62. The Gallican Confession. A.D. 1559. 76 § 63. The Declaration of Faith of the Reformed Church in France. A.D. 1872. 77 § 64. The Belgic Confession. A.D. 1561. 78 § 65. The Arminian Controversy. A.D. 1604-1619. 79 § 66. The Remonstrance. 80 § 67. The Canons of Dort. 81 § 68. The Tetrapolitan Confession. 82 § 69. The Heidelberg Catechism. A.D. 1563. 83 § 70. The Brandenburg Confessions. 84 § 71. Minor German Reformed Confessions. 85 § 72. The Bohemian Brethern and the Waldenses. 86 § 73. The Bohemian Confessions after the Reformation. A.D. 1535 and 1575. 87 § 74. The Reformation in Poland and the Consensus of Sendomir. A.D. 1570. 88 § 75. The Reformation in Hungary and the Confession of Czenger. 89 § 76. The English Reformation. 90 § 77. The Doctrinal Position of the Anglican Church and her Relation to other Churches. 91 § 78. The Doctrinal Formulas of Henry VIII. 92 § 79. The Edwardine Articles. A.D. 1553. 93 § 80. The Elizabethan Articles. A.D. 1563 and 1571. 94 § 81. The Interpretation of the Articles. 95 § 82. American Revision of the Thirty-nine Articles, A.D. 1801. 96 § 83. The Catechisms of the Church of England. A.D. 1549 and 1662. 97 § 84. THE LAMBETH ARTICLES, A.D. 1595. 98 § 85. THE IRISH ARTICLES. A.D. 1615. 99 § 86. The Articles of the Reformed Episcopal Church. A.D. 1875. 100 § 87. The Reformation in Scotland. 101 § 88. John Knox. 102 § 89. The Scotch Confession of Faith. A.D. 1560. 103 § 90. The Scotch Covenants and the Scotch Kirk. 104 § 91. The Scotch Catechisms. 105 § 92. The Puritan Conflict. 106 § 93. The Westminster Assembly. 107 § 94. The Westminster Confession. 108 § 95. Analysis of the Westminster Confession. 109 § 96. The Westminster Catechisms. 110 § 97. Criticism of the Westminster System of Doctrine. 111 § 98. The Westminster Standards in America. 112 § 99. The Westminster Standards in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 113 § 100. General Survey. 114 § 101. The Congregationalists. 115 § 102. English Congregational Creeds. 116 § 103. American Congregational Creeds. 117 § 104. The Anabaptists and Mennonites. 118 § 105. The Regular or Calvinistic Baptists. 119 § 106. Aminian or Free-will Baptists. 120 § 107. The Society of Friends, or Quakers. 121 § 108. The Moravians. 122 § 109. Methodism. 123 § 110. Methodist Creeds. 124 § 111. Analysis of Arminian Methodism 125 § 112. Calvinistic Methodism. 126 § 113. The Catholic Apostolic Church (called Irvingites.) 127 § 114. The Articles of the Evangelical Alliance. 128 § 115. The Consensus and Dissensus of Creeds. 129 § 116. The Disciples of Christ 130 § 117. The Universalists. 131 § 118. The Unitarians. 132 INDEX TO VOL. I.