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The Idea of Reform : Its Impact on Christian Thought and Action in the Age of the Fathers /

Ladner, Gerhart B.

The Idea of Reform : Its Impact on Christian Thought and Action in the Age of the Fathers / Gerhart B. Ladner. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (553 p.)

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. VARIETIES OF RENEWAL IDEOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM -- CHAPTER I. DISTINCTION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM FROM OTHER IDEAS OF RENEWAL -- CHAPTER II. DEFINITION OF THE IDEA OF REFORM -- PART TWO. THE EARLY CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM -- CHAPTER I. PRE-CHRISTIAN, BIBLICAL, AND PATRISTIC TERMINOLOGY OF RENEWAL AND REFORM -- CHAPTER II. THE PAULINE IDEA OF REFORM AND RELATED SCRIPTURAL CONCEPTS -- CHAPTER III. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN GREEK CHRISTIAN THOUGHT OF THE PATRISTIC PERIOD -- CHAPTER IV. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN LATIN PATRISTIC THOUGHT BEFORE ST. AUGUSTINE -- CHAPTER V. ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REFORM IDEAS OF THE CHRISTIAN EAST AND WEST -- CHAPTER VI. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN LITURGY -- CHAPTER VII. THE IDEA OF REFORM IN EARLY CHRISTIAN CANON LAW AND SACRAMENTAL THEOLOGY -- PART THREE. MONASTICISM AS A VEHICLE OF THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF REFORM IN THE AGE OF THE FATHERS -- CHAPTER I. MONASTICISM AS THE EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE -- CHAPTER II. MONKS, PRIESTS, CONVERSI -- CHAPTER III. THE TRANSMISSION OF AUGUSTINIAN MONASTICISM TO EARLY MEDIAEVAL EUROPE -- EXCURSUS I. THE DEFINITION OF AN IDEA -- EXCURSUS II. METAHISTORICAL PRECONCEPTIONS -- EXCURSUS III. SOME PATRISTIC DISTINCTIONS CONCERNING ETERNITY, AEVUM, AND TIME -- EXCURSUS IV. POINTS OF CONTACT BETWEEN ST. AUGUSTINE AND MODERN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE -- EXCURSUS V. ST. AUGUSTINE'S ATTITUDE TO THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORDER OF HIS TIME AND A RECENT BOOK ON DONATISM -- ABBREVIATIONS and BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ADDENDA -- INDEX

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9780674334793 9780674184077

10.4159/harvard.9780674184077 doi


Christentum.
Hervormingen.
Kloosterwezen.
Reform.
Theologie, Christentum.
Theology, Doctrinal--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Théologie dogmatique - Histoire.
Vernieuwing.
Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
RELIGION / General.

BT25 / .L3 1959

230/.09/015