as it has been going on, and tilie more ^Jthfeli all the leading fiicts of the case, the moRfldlmfH and complete will it be as a history. Br adie hibition, the whole doctrfaial progrea oftieQcii Church being set before our eyes, ve ifail ii > paring its results with our own systtnn, be ikt see wherein we are defective, ooMided, isd ^ wherein our systema need to be refbniMd,^^f chastened ; how they may be aidmited .j i irrl and gather better nurture ; and by (xm^m^h> sulti with the Scripture, we shall be aUeto rix parts of its sacr^ truths have been kut 6n. what problems yet remain to be BolTed,TliitB£i be done in order that our divine tj^m, tf ttai wholly reproduced in the life of ^ Chveta^ that all its truths and doctrines stand OQtii&^ and majestically in the history of the'na » t^ k in that revelation which was given to ooiiileit termine tliis history."
6. The history of doctiines has been ttt^ut independent branch of theological sdeDee odra» em times, 3ret some of the earlier writoi of (If history, as well as the theologians, prepaid Anr for it. Thus the works of Irencns, Hippolyta'ft gen, and Tertullian against the heretic* fansi it valuable material. Much, too, is found soaov^t the apologetical and polemical literatnreoftfcrsrt' and mediseval periods of the Church. Arawtkaa preparation for a histoiy of doctrines » fteriai works of the Roman Catholic tbeologiiiB Pars iOptu de Theologicig DogmatOmt, 164^0), Hbbm iDogvMta Thedogka, 1684-S9), and DmiwfluV trma ei DiaeipUna Ecdena, 1780), and offtePrt* ant theologian Forbesius a Cone (lutrtOmo^ ico4heohgica de Doctrma CSnrfww, 1708), wfcsci? took to prove, especially in oppodtkm to ciifiri^ larmin, the agreement between tiie doettiae af a Reformers and the opinions of the eariier fctei i direct transition to tiie treatment of tbeMrtoiTrfit trines as a separate science may be fcondintk?*- ace by Semler to the EwmgeBtAi GhiimAin rfJ ^ Baumgartcn (Halle, 1769-60). The liUfstw ^f cial compendiums and mannals of thefaiitixj^v' trines begins at the doee of the last txaimM^l more recently become quite copions. Tie )*? * jority of these works belong to GernM B*^ only a few original works baring mm 1^«» ofr other countries. The most fanportait ^[^\ the subject are the foUowfaig: S.G.Lai«e,isf* Hdke Geickickie der Dolmen (Leipzife 15«^5* plete) ; J. Ch. Wundemann, Gttddeite ^ «^ GlaubeiuUhren, etc. (from Athanaans to 6n^ Great, 2 vols. Leipi. 1798-99); W. WMa^^^ buck der chritd. DogmengtttMiiA (4 ^^ J^ 1797-1809; only to the year 604 ; the ^^^ in the pragmatic method), and i**'*^^^ DogmengeschichU (Marburg, 1812; 3dedit.iww^ continued by D. von Cfilln, HapfeW, «nd >«^ Cas8el,1832-1838,3 vols.8vo; Eng-tn^%^ um) by Murdoch, New Haven, 1880, iM; f .*f (Danish bishop), Handb. of earlier Hid. <f^2. (1801 sq. ; Germ, transl. by Evers, Gott. 1^"** incomplete); J.Ch.W. Augu8ti,L«W.(J^*^!7 fiumgesch, (edited by J. G. V. Engelhardt,&ta*^' 23, 2 vols.) ; F. G. Ruperti, Gttdi. der iX'^f^. 1881) ; L. F. O. Baumgarten-Croaaf, ^*7,^ chrisU, Dogmenge»ch, (Leipi. 1832, 2 ^^^^^ pcndMun der Dogmenge*du (ed-byHwcLa^^r^ 2 vols.) ; C. G. H. Lente, Getd^ckk dff *;|»f ^ (Helmst. 1834-85, 2 vols.); J.G.V. £»««»«*:. mengeeeit. (Neustadt, 1839, 2 vols.) ; F. C. ^' buck der Dogmenge$ch. (Giessen, ^^^^^.^fZ Baur, 1854) ; K. R. Hagenbach, LthM iff^^ geschidUe (Leipz. 1840, 5th edit 1867; W^^ C.W.Buch,Edinburgh,1846,3d editlSM; W^J^J transl. revised, with large additions fr°?T^ ; ,i man edit and other sources, by E B. Sia»j •
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ew York, 1861) ; F. C. Baur, Lehrb. der chrittl. Dog- mgesch, (Stuttg. 1849, 8d ed. Tubing. 1867), and Vorle- ngen fiber dk christl. Doffmengesch, (edit by bis son, F.
Baur, 8 vols. Leipa. 1866-1867); Karl Beck, LeM. r ehritU. Dopm^esch, (Weimar, 1848, 2d edit. 1864) ; arbeineke, Ckrittl. Dogmengetch. (edited by Matthies id Vatke, being the 4th volume of the complete works
Marhelneke, Berlin, 1849) ; L. Noock, Die chriati, ogmengeMh, (Erlangen, 1852, 2d edit. 1856) ; J. C. L. ieseler, Dogmengesckichte (ed. by Redepenning, Bonn, 155, ,8vo) ; Neander, ChrM, Dogtnengesch. (ed. by Dr.
L. Jacobi, 2 vols. 8vo, Berl. 1867-8 ; Eng. transl. by yland, in Bohn's library, 2 vols. 12mo, Lond. 1858) ; . Scbraid, Lehr. der Dogmengesch. (Ndrdlingen, 1860, I ed. 1868). The only recent works on the subrject f Roman Catholic authors are those by EJee, Lehriuch rr DogmengeschickU (Mainz, 1887-38, 2 vols.); and :hwane, Dogmengesch. der patrigt, Zeit (of the period om 825-787, Munster, 2 parts, 1866-67).
No copious or complete history of doctrines has been rodnced in England; but the great writers of the nglish Church, in treating special topics, have large- ' illustrated them fh>m history. ** Though compris- ig no continuous and entire history of Christian doc- ine, and even when investigating a particular sub- set, often doing it incidentally, the labors of Hooker ad Bull, of Pearson and Waterland, are every way orthy to be placed beside those of Baur and Domer. he learning is as ample and accurate, the logical rasp is as powerful, and the judgment more than inal" (Shedd, Pref. vii). The writer just cited has 2e honor of having produced one of the first books of le class in English literature (A History of Christian hdrines, by William G. T. Shedd, D.D., New York, !. Scribner, 8d ed. 1865, 2 vols. 8vo). This work is udid, luminous, and able throughout, though it does ot aim at a ftill treatment of all topics in Christian leology. ** It gives the results of extensive reading, nd the analogi^^f a patient and devout thinker, lolding firmly ^Rhe great Puritan theology. Dr. hedd shows a mastery of modem German specula- ion ; and while his pages are not burdened with co- ious notes, or enriched with the laboriously collated ztracts with which Hagenbach or Gieseler fiivor us, be gist of all the controversies is well indicated" (Brit- ih Quarterly, April, 1865, p. 326). The only other rork of the class in English literature is Historical ''heology, a Review of the principal doctrinal Discussions i» the Christian Church since the Apostolic Age, by Wil- iam Cunningham, D.D., principal of New College, Edinburgh (2d ed. 1864, 2 vols. 8vo). This is a post- lumoQs work, edited fh>m Dr. Cunningham*s college ectures by his literary executors. Of course it has tot the compactness or the finish which it might have lad if prepared for the press by the author himself; mt it is, nevertheless, a very valuable contribution to ustorical theology.