OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE BY HENRY C. SHELDON PROFESSOR OF HISTORICAL THEOLOGY IN BOSTON UNIVERSITY IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. FROM A.D. 90 TO 1517 NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1886 PREFACE. It has been our aim to make this work as strictly historical as the title imports. The distinction between history and dogmatics, or apologetics, has been kept steadily in Only a very moderate amount of direct comment has been indulged upon the opinions recorded. view. We have endeavored to draw as far as possible from original sources. For the earlier fathers we have followed quite largely the translations published by Clark, of Edinburgh. For the succeeding fathers and the scholastics down to the thirteenth century, we have used mainly the text of Migne's Patrologia. But however much we may have depended upon the primary sources, as a matter of course we are under large obligations to such investigators as Gieseler, Neander, Baur, Hagenbach, Dorner, Kahnis, and Schaff. Nor should we forget to acknowledge the aid which has come to us through the kindness and broad scholarship of the late Dean of the Theological School of Boston University, James E. Latimer. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, September, 1885. |