CHAPTER IV: Dispenser of Salvation

Church
191-239
Introduction 191
1 Holy Scripture. Old Testament in the East 192
Old Testament in the West 194

New Testament in the East; its close; and hesitations New Testament in the West 195 Dogma of Inspiration and pneumatic exegesis 199 Uncertainties of exegesis (Spiritualism and literalism) 199

Exegesis of Antiochenes 201
Exegesis in the West, Augustine 202
Uncertainties as to attributes and sufficiency of Scripture 205
The two Testaments 206
2. 2. Tradition. Scripture and Tradition 207

The creed or contents of Symbol is tradition; Development of symbol,
Distinction between East and West
208

Cultus, Constitution, and Disciplinary regulations covered by notion of Apostolic Tradition, the para'dosis agraphos 211 Authority and representation of the Church 214 Councils 215 Common Sense of Church 219 "Antiquity"; Category of the "Fathers" 219 Apostolic Communities, Patriarchate 221 Rome and the Roman Bishop: prestige in East 224 View of innovations in the Church 228 Summing up on general notion of Tradition 230 Vincentius of Lerinum on Tradition 230
3. The Church. Notion and definition of the Church 233 Unimportance of the Church in Dogmatics proper 235

Reasons for considering the Church: predominance of interest in the Cultus 236 Divisions of the One Church 237 A.--Presuppositions of Doctrine of Redemption or Natural Theology.

Dispenser of Salvation
241-254
Proofs of God, method in doctrine of God 241
Doctrine of nature and attributes of God 244
Cosmology 247
The upper world 248
Doctrine of Providence. Theodicies 249
Doctrine of Spirits; Influence of Neoplatonism 251
Significance of doctrine of angels in practice and cultus 251
Criticism 254