CHAPTER II: Augustine

Augustine the standard authority till the period of the Reformation
3
Augustine and Western Christianity 3
Augustine as Reformer of Christian Piety 4
Augustine as teacher of the Church 4
Augustine and Dogma 5
Dogma in the Middle Ages 6
The German and Roman Peoples and Dogma 6
Method of Mediæval History of Dogma 9
Division into Periods 12

Augustine
14-60
Tertullian as Founder of Western Christianity 14

Elements of Tertullian's Christianity as elements of Western
Christianity as a whole
14
Law (lex) 15
Juristic element 16
Syllogistic and Dialectical 17
Psychological 21
Biblical and Practical 22
Eschatology and Morality 23
Cyprian's importance 24
The Roman Church 25

Revolution under Constantine: Origen's theology and Monachism are imported into the West 27 Græcised Western Theology and the Old Latin type enter into Augustine 29

The importance to Augustine of the Greek scholars Ambrose (p. 29) and
Victorinus Rhetor
33
The influence upon him of genuine Latins 37
Of Cyprian 38
The Donatist Controversy 38
Optatus 42
Ambrose as Latin 48
Results of Pre-Augustinian development 53
Doctrine of the Symbol 53
Death of Christ 54
Soteriology 55
The Church 59
Rome and Heathenism 59