s/t: History's Impact on Belief
Preface
1.USE OF THE PAST Memory as Part of Self-Understanding/Vision of America's Past/Magic of Legends/What Is Real?/Xian & Jewish Views/Diversity of Xian Memories/Assumption of an Unchanging Xianity/Authoritative Past
2.OLDER THE BETTER Need for Perspective/Luke & the Canons of History/1st Outline of a Xian Construction of the Past/2 Most Creative Centuries/Hegesippus' Recollections/Church as a Virgin/Tertullian Against Heresy/Time of the Gods/Truth Older than Error
3.BISHOP'S MAIDEN-HISTORY W/OUT HISTORY Eusebius/Ecclesiastical History/Divine Origins/Heretics/Compelling Legends/Standards of Truth/History without Change
4.NO FAITH EXCEPT THE OLD Robber Council/Council of Chalcedon/ Patristic Attitude/Doctrine of the Trinity/Holy Spirit/Growing Importance of Creeds/Peter Abelard
5.HATEFUL CHARGE OF NOVELTY Histories of the Reformation Era/ Centuries/Annales Ecclesiastici/1 Certain Trumpet
6.APOSTLES AT YOUR SERVICE Left-Wing Reformers/Pietism/New Critical Principle/Father of Dogmengeschichte/Infallible Bible/Infallible Pope/John Henry Newman/Adolf von Harnack/ Theory of Early Catholicism/Are the Critics Critical Enough?
7.YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN Xianity an Innovation/What Was the Original Faith?/Earliest Testimonies/Son of Man/Value of the NT Witness/Lessons from the OT/2 Cases in the History of Xianity/ Nicene Controversy/Diversity & Common Identity
8.WHAT HAS BEEN IS NOT WHAT WILL BE Transcending the Present/ Great Fallacy/Xian Vision/Our Post-Constantinian Age/Xian Anti-Semitism/Past Is Never the Whole Story
Epilogue
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