CHAPTER I: sphere of the Rule of Faith, or, the defining of the norm of the

sphere of the Rule of Faith, or, the defining of the norm of the
Doctrine of the Church due to the adoption of the Logos Christology
1-118
1. Introduction 1
Significance of the Logos Doctrine 2
Consequences 3
Historical retrospect 5
Opposition to the Logos Doctrine 7
The Monarchians, within Catholicism 8
Precatholic only among the Alogi 12
Division of subject, defective information 13
2. Secession of Dynamistic Monarchianism, or Adoptianism 14 14
a. The so-called Alogi in Asia Minor 14
b.

The Roman Monarchians: Theodotus the leatherworker and his party; Asclepiodotus, Hermophilus, Apollonides. Theodotus the money-changer, also the Artemonites 20 c. Traces of Adoptian Christology in the West after Artemas 32 d.

Ejection of Adoptian Christology in the East.--Beryll of Bostra, Paul
of Samosata etc.
34

Acta Archelai, Aphraates
50
3. Expulsion of Modalistic Monarchianism 51
a.

Modalistic Monarchians in Asia Minor and in the West: Noetus, Epigonus, Cleomenes, Æschines, Praxeas, Victorinus, Zephyrinus, Sabellius, Callistus 51 b. The last stages of Modalism in the West, and the state of Theology 73

Commodian, Amobius, Lactantius
77

Theology of the West about A.D. 300
78
c.

Modalistic Monarchians in the East: Sabellianism and the History of
Philosophical Christology and Theology after Origen
81
Various forms of Sabellianism 82
Doctrine of Sabellius 83
The fight of the two Dionysii 88
The Alexandrian training school 95
Pierius 96
Theognostus 96
Hieracas 98
Peter of Alexandria 99
Gregory Thaumaturgus 101

Theology of the future: combination of theology of Irenæus with that of Origen: Methodius 104 Union of speculation with Realism and Traditionalism 105 Dogmatic culminating in Monachism 110 Close of the development: Identification of Faith and Theology 113 SECOND PART. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMA.

FIRST BOOK. The History of the Development of Dogma as the Doctrine of the God-man on the basis of Natural Theology.