Creeds of Christendom • VOLUME 1
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume
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1History837 words2PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.813 words3TABLE OF CONTENTS.1,057 words4ADDITIONS TO THE LITERATURE1,963 words5A HISTORY OF THE CREEDS OF CHRISTENDOM854 words6§ 2. Origin of Creeds.1,115 words7§ 3. Authority of Creeds. [9]1,104 words8§ 5. Classification of Creeds.719 words9SECOND CHAPTER.1,081 words10§ 7. The Apostles' Creed.2,041 words11III. I add a table, with critical notes, to show the difference between the original Roman creed, as given by Rufinus in Latin (about A.D. 390), and by Marcellus in Greek2,173 words12[22] Generally distributed under three heads: 1. Credis in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, etc.? Resp. Credo. 2. Credis et in Jesum Christum, etc.? Resp. Credo. 3. Credis et in2,017 words13§ 8. The Nicene Creed.2,117 words14And in the Holy Ghost.734 words15§ 9. The Creed of Chalcedon.2,005 words16§ 10. The Athanasian Creed.2,152 words17IV. Introduction and Use.--The Athanasian Creed acquired great authority in the Latin Church, and during the Middle Ages it was almost daily used in the morning devotions2,039 words18THIRD CHAPTER.1,078 words19§ 11. The Seven OEcumenical Councils.975 words20§ 12. The Confessions of Gennadius, A.D. 1453.1,795 words21GENNADIOU SChOLARIOU1,220 words22§ 14. The Confession of Metrophanes Critopulus, A.D. 1625.2,095 words23§ 16. The Orthodox Confession of Mogilas, A.D. 1643.2,048 words24§ 17. The Synod of Jerusalem and the Confession of Dositheus, A.D. 1672.786 words25Article I.--The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, with the single procession of the Spirit. (Pneuma hagion ek tou patros ekporeuomenon. Against the Latins.)2,123 words26§ 18. The Synods of Constantinople, A.D. 1672 and 1691.2,068 words27We have already seen that the 'Orthodox Confession,' or the first systematic and complete exhibition of the modern Greek faith, is the product of a Russian prelate, Peter1,303 words28§ 20. Anglo-Catholic Correspondence with the Russo-Greek Church.1,747 words29§ 21. The Eastern Sects: Nestorians, Jacobites, Copts, Armenians.2,027 words30FOURTH CHAPTER.1,033 words31§ 23. Standard Expositions of the Roman Catholic System.2,022 words32[167] Döllinger (Lectures on the Reunion of Churches, 1872, Engl. translation, p. 90) says: 'Bossuet puts aside the question of infallibility, as a mere scholastic contro690 words33§ 24. The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent.1,575 words34SESSIO III.1,225 words35§ 25. The Profession of the Tridentine Faith, 1564.2,088 words36§ 26. Roman Catechism, 1566.1,401 words37§ 27. The Papal Bulls against the Jansenists, 1653 and 1713.2,024 words38Note on the Jansenists in Holland.--The remnant of the Jansenists or the Old Catholics in Holland date their separate existence from the protest against the bull Unigenit1,140 words39§ 28. The Papal Definition of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, 1854.2,137 words40§ 29. The Argument for the Immaculate Conception.2,020 words41This progress in Mariolatry is strikingly reflected in the history of Christian art. 'The first pictures of the early Christian ages simply represent the woman. By-and-by2,173 words423. The only dogmatic argument adduced is that of congruity or fitness, in view of the peculiar relations which Mary sustains to the persons of the Holy Trinity. Being ete2,203 words43[224] He says: 'Piety must confess that the mother of our Lord and Saviour was sinless' (as quoted by Augustine, De nat. et gratia, cc. 36, § 42: 'quam dicit sine peccato1,254 words44§ 30. The Papal Syllabus, A.D. 1864.2,010 words45§ 31. The Vatican Council, 1870.2,092 words46The call was issued by an Encyclical, commencing Æterni Patris Unigenitus Filius, in the twenty-third year of his Pontificate, on the feast of St. Peter and Paul, June 292,102 words47But this very triumph of absolutism marks also a new departure. It gave rise to a secession headed by the ablest divines of the Roman Church. It put the Papacy into direc2,016 words48[279] There were in all forty-five schemata, divided into four classes: (1) circa fidem, (2) circa disciplinam ecclesiæ, (3) circa ordines regulares, (4) circa res ritus 1,444 words49§ 32. The Vatican Decrees. The Constitution on the Catholic Faith.1,594 words50§ 33. The Vatican Decrees, Continued. The Infallibility Decree.2,020 words51The days of the two most important public sessions of the Vatican Council, namely the first and the last, were the darkest and stormiest which Rome saw from Dec. 8, 1869,2,705 words52[310] According to Manning, but only 65 according to Friedberg, p. 47.1,513 words53§ 34. Papal Infallibility Explained, and Tested by Tradition and Scripture.2,060 words54Ultramontanism and Gallicanism.2,014 words55But more than this: the sixth oecumenical Council, held 680, pronounced the anathema on Honorius, 'the former Pope of old Rome,' for teaching officially the Monothelite h2,039 words565. The idea of Papal absolutism and Infallibility, like that of the sinlessness of Mary, can be traced to apocryphal origin. It is found first, in the second century, in 2,072 words57As to the passages separately considered, Matt. xvi., 'Thou art rock,' and John xxi., 'Feed my flock,' could at best only prove Papal absolutism, but not Papal Infallibil2,096 words58[329] Archbishop Manning (III. p. 118) speaks of history as 'a wilderness without guide or path,' and says: 'Whensoever any doctrine is contained in the divine revelation1,838 words59§ 35. The Liturgical Standards of the Roman Church.972 words60§ 36. The Old Catholics.2,055 words
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