Category: History - Religious
History of the particular Theological Sciences, which treats of the scientific conception and treatment of theology and its separate branches according to its historical development; while the History of Theological Literature, which when restricted to the age of the Fathers i...
(Mark vii. 34), marking the brow and breast with the sign of the cross; in Africa also the giving of salt acc. to Mark ix. 50, in Italy the handing over of a gold piece as a sym...
18. xvi. 18 partly of the confession of Peter, partly of the Personof Christ. First in the time of Cœlestine an attempt was made to refer it to the person of Peter. The legates of Cœlestine at the Council of Ephesus in A.D. 431 had said: ὅστις,...
17. iii. 37, tells that after the death of the twelve the gospel wassuccessfully spread abroad in all lands by means of itinerating Apostolic men, whom he designates, however, by the old name of evangelists, and praises them for having according...
5. xxi. 9), and that the permission applies only to such cases, theexceptional nature of which, as well as their temporary character, as charismatic and miraculous gifts, would prevent their being used as precedents for women engaging in regula...
2. d. And, finally, the History of Theology in general, or theHistory of the particular Theological Sciences, which treats of the scientific conception and treatment of theology and its separate branches according to its historical develop...
6. c. Finally, extracts from the Homilies, worthless and ofno independent significance, are extant in the form of two Greek =Epitomæ= (ed. Dressel, Lps., 1859). Equally unimportant is the Syrian Epitome, edited by Lagarde, Lps., 1861, a...
8. d. Among the successors of Origen in the school of Alexandriathe most celebrated, from about A.D. 232, was =Dionysius Alexandrinus= [of Alexandria]. He was raised to the rank of bishop in A.D. 247, and died in A.D. 265. In speculative pow...
3. c. The want of biblical foundation for this view was theoccasion of its being abandoned in favour of a theory, first hinted at by Jerome, according to which the expression brothers of Jesus is to be taken in a wider sense as meaning...
14. d. The Catholic reproductions in Greek and Syriac thathave come down to us of the Leucian =Acts of Thomas= are of special value because of the many Gnostic elements which, particularly in the Greek, have been allowed to remain unch...
4. iii. 1 not without the consenting will of the individual, andthe charismatic capacity for teaching, although not in the same absolute measure. The former were attached to a particular congregation, the latter were, like the Apostles and P...
11. xix. 26), and is preserved in several Greek, Syriac,g. The _Ev. Nicodemi_ (John xix. 39) in Greek and Lat. contains two Jewish writings of the 2nd century. The first part consists of the _Gesta_ or _Acta Pilati_. There can be no...
7. c. Great as was the reputation of Clement, he was faroutstripped by his pupil and successor =Origen=, acknowledged by pagan and Christian contemporaries to be a miracle of scholarship. On account of his indomitable diligence, he w...
16. ii. 11), were decided opponents of every form of Chiliasm andexplained away the Scripture passages on which it was built by means of allegorical interpretation. Nevertheless even in Egypt it had numerous adherents. At their head about the...
10. d. A collection in Syriac belonging perhaps to the 5th or 6thcentury in which other legends about early ages are kept together, is called =Spelunca thesaurorum=. We are here told about the sepulchre of the patriarch Lamech and the treasur...
9. d. In the year 1843 the missionary Krapff sent to Tübingenthe title of an Ethiopic Codex, in which Ewald recognised the writing referred to frequently by the Church Fathers as the =Book of Jubilees= (Ἰωβελαῖα) or the =Little Genesis= (...
15. v. 33) about the wonderful fruitfulness of the earth during themillennium: one vine-stock will bear 10,000 stems (palmites), each stem will have 10,000 branches (bracchia), each branch 10,000 twigs (flagella), each twig 10,000 clusters (bot...
13. c. To the same age and the same Gnostic party as the LeucianActs of John, belong the =Acts of Andrew= preserved in many fragments and circulated in various Catholic reproductions. Of these latter the most esteemed were the _Acts of Andre...
12. vi. 5), is a poetic romance with numerous raisings from1. c. Patristics, which deals with the subjective development of