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CHAPTER IV: Dogmatic, and a Christian theology; or the acute secularising of

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Gentile Christianity as it was being developed into Catholicism
150-222
(1) The Communities and the Church 150

(2) The Foundation of the Faith; the Old Testament, and the traditions
about Jesus (sayings of Jesus, the Kerygma about Jesus), the
significance of the "Apostolic"
155
(3) The main articles of Christianity and the conceptions of salvation.
The new law. Eschatology. 163
(4) The Old Testament as source of the knowledge of faith 175
(5) The knowledge of God and of the world, estimate of the world
(Demons) 180
(6) Faith in Jesus Christ 183
Jesus the Lord 183
Jesus the Christ 184
Jesus the Son of God, the Theologia Christi 186
The Adoptian and the Pneumatic Christology 190
Ideas of Christ's work 199
(7) The Worship, the sacred actions, and the organization of the
Churches 204
The Worship and Sacrifice 204
Baptism and the Lord's Supper 207
The organization 214
SUPPLEMENTARY.
The premises of Catholicism 218
Doctrinal diversities of the Apostolic Fathers 218

Dogmatic, and a Christian theology; or the acute secularising of Christianity 223-266 (1) The conditions for the rise of Gnosticism 223 (2) The nature of Gnosticism 227

(3) History of Gnosticism and the forms in which it appeared
238
(4) The most important Gnostic doctrines 253

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