Table Of ContentPreface Primary Sources Some Definitions 1. Praeparatio Evangelica The True Israel The Christian Dispute with Classical Thought The Triumph of Theology The Expectation of the Nations 2. Outside the Mainstream The Separation of Law and Gospel Systems of Cosmic Redemption The New Prophecy Criteria of Apostolic Continuity 3. The Faith of the Church Catholic The Apocalyptic Vision and Its Transformation The Supernatural Order The Meaning of Salvation The Church and the Means of Grace 4. The Mystery of the Trinity Christ as Divine Christ as Creature Christ as Homoousios The Three and the One 5. The Person of the God-Man Presupposition of Christological Doctrine Alternative Theologies of the Incarnation The Dogma of the Two Natures in Christ The Continuing Debate 6. Nature and Grace The State of Christian Anthropology The Paradox of Grace Grace and Perfection Natural Endowment and Superadded Gift 7. The Orthodox Consensus Ubique, Semper, Ab Smnibus Catholic Orthodoxy in the East Orthodox Catholicism in the West Selected Secondary Works Index: Biblical Index: General
SynopsisThe first volume of a magisterial survey of the entire history of the Christian tradition, this volume focusing on the emergence of Catholicism In this five-volume opus Jaroslav Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth., In this five-volume opus-now available in its entirety in paperback-Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."-Martin Marty, Commonweal, In this five-volume opus-now available in its entirety in paperback-Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's The Christian Tradition is] a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'."-Martin Marty, Commonweal