CHAPTER II: §©1. Introductory 41-57

§©1. The Idea and Task of the History of Dogma 1-23

Definition 1
Limits and Divisions 3
Dogma and Theology 9
Factors in the formation of Dogma 12
Explanation as to the conception and task of the History of Dogma 13
§©2. History of the History of Dogma 23-40

The Early, the Mediæval, and the Roman Catholic Church 23 The Reformers and the 17th Century 25 Mosheim, Walch Ernesti 27 Lessing, Semler, Lange, Münscher, Baumgarten-Crusius, Meir 29 Baur, Neander, Kliefoth, Thomasius, Nitzsch, Ritschl, Renan, Loofs 37

§©1. Introductory 41-57

The Gosppel and the Old Testament 41 The Detachment of the Christians from the Jewish Church 43 The Church and the Græco-Roman World 45 The Greek spirit an element of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine of Faith 47

The Elements connecting Primitive Christianity and the growing Catholic
Church
50

The Presuppositions of the origin of the Apostolic Catholic Doctrine of
Faith
57

§©2. The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to His own Testimony
concerning Himself
58-76

Fundamental Features 58
Details 61
Supplements 70
Literature 75

§©3. The Common Preaching concerning Jesus Christ in the first
generation of believers
76-98

General Outline 76
The faith of the first Disciples 78
The beginnings of Christology 80
Conceptions of the Work of Jesus 83
Belief in the Resurrection 84
Righteousness and the Law 86
Paul 86
The Self-consciousness of being the Church of God 88
Supplement 1. Universalism 89

Supplement 2. Questions as to the validity of the Law; the four main
tendencies at the close of the Apostolic Age
89
Supplement 3. The Pauline Theology 92
Supplement 4. The Johannine Writings 95
Supplement 5. The Authorities in the Church 98

§©4. The current Exposition of the Old Testament and the Jewish hopes of the future, in their significance for the Earliest types of Christian preaching 99-107

The Rabbinical and Exegetical Methods 99
The Jewish Apocalyptic literature 100

Mythologies and poetical ideas, notions of pre-existence and their
application to Messiah
102
The limits of the explicable 105
Literature 107

§©5. The Religious Conceptions and the Religious Philosophy of the Hellenistic Jews in their significance for the later formulation of the Gospel 107-116

Spiritualising and Moralising of the Jewish Religion 107
Philo 109
The Hermeneutic principles of Philo 114

§©6. The religious dispositions of the Greeks and Romans in the first two centuries, and the current Græco-Roman philosophy of religion 116-129

The new religious needs and the old worship (Excursus on theo's 116 The System of associations, and the Empire 121 Philosophy and its acquisitions 122 Platonic and Stoic Elements in the philiosophy of religion 126 Greek culture and Roman ideas in the Church 127 The Empire and philosophic schools (the Cynics) 128 Literature 128 SUPPLEMENTARY.

(1) The twofold conception of the blessing of Salvation in its
significance for the following period
129

(2) Obscurity in the origin of the most important Christian ideas and
Ecclesiastical forms
132

(3) Significance of the Pauline theology for the legitimising and reformation of the doctrine of the Church in the following period 133

DIVISION I.--The Genesis of Ecclesiastical Dogma, or the Genesis of the Catholic Apostolic Dogmatic Theology, and the first Scientific Ecclesiastical System of Doctrine BOOK I. THE PREPARATION.