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CONTENTS
THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF OUR LORD
Subject and aim
§ 1. The silence of St. Mark, St. John, and St. Paul
§ 2. The narrative of St. Luke
its origin and trustworthiness
objections: (1) the census
(2) angelic appearances .
§ 3. The narrative of St. Matthew
objections: (1) massacre of the innocents
(2) influence of prophecy
§ 4. The relation of the two narratives
(1) the historical outline
(2) the genealogies
§ 5. The tradition of the churches
importance of tradition
THE VIEW OF OUR LORD'S CONSCIOUSNESS DURING HIS
HUMAN AND MORTAL LIFE WHICH IS PRESENTED IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
§ 1. The evidence of the Gospels
picture of a human growth
with assertion of divine sonship and infallibility
but evidence of a limitation of knowledge
(1) human experiences-interrogation, prayer
(2) St. Matt. xxiv. 36 neither the Son.
(3) testimony of St. John's Gospel
(4) argument from silence .
§ 2. The language of St. Paul
self-emptying (Phil ii. 5-11)
self-beggary (2 Cor. viii. 9)
§ 3. An absolute kévwois not affirmed in the N. T.
the eternal Word in St. John, St. Paul, the Hebrews silence as to an arrest of the Word's divine functions
§ 4. Provisional conclusion
the Incarnation involves a real limitation.
as opposed to
dogmatical repudiation of ignorance.
humanitarian assertion of fallibility
II.
THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN OPINION OUTSIDE THE
CANON ON THE SUBJECT OF OUR LORD'S HUMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS.
§ 1. Preliminary. On the permanence in the Incarnation of
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Proclus.
§ 2. Early tradition and speculation on the special subject of
the human consciousness of Christ
tradition not definite on the subject.
doctrine of Irenaeus
Clement of Alexandria
Origen .
§ 3. The anti-Arian writers who admit a human ignorance
§ 4. Anti-Arian writers, especially of the west
tendency of anti-Arian theology
protest of Theodoret.
doctrine of Hilary
Jerome
Augustine
§ 5. The Apollinarian controversy
lack of interest among Catholics
doctrine of Gregory Nyssen
§ 6. The Nestorian controversy
Theodore of Mopsuestia
zealous repudiation of Nestorianism
Cyril
7. The Monophysite controversy
(1) vindication of the manhood not fruitful in result
the Agnoetae and Leontius
Agobard and the Adoptionists in the west
(2) the Definition of Chalcedon leaves the two
natures in simple juxtaposition
§ 8. Mediaeval and scholastic theology
determined against a real ignorance.
refinements of Thomas Aquinas
qualifications
(1) hesitation as to what is de fide
(2) decisions only as to matter of fact
scholastic theology
(1) mistaken in its use of church dogmas
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(2) based on one-sided metaphysical idea of God 171
derived from Greek philosophy
through Dionysius Areop. and Erigena
resulting in nihilianism
as expressed in Peter Lombard
§ 9. The theology of the Reformation a return to Scripture.
theories of Luther
modern views
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the Reformed
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