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Contents
Acknowledgements
General introduction
1. The Doctrine of God in Patristic Development
Introductory essay
1.1. Theophilus of Antioch, from To Autolycus
1.2. Justin Martyr, from First Apology
1.3. Athenagoras, from A Plea for the Christians
1.4. Tertullian, from Against Praxeas
1.5. Hilary of Poitiers, from On the Trinity
1.6. Gregory of Nyssa, from To Ablabius: ‘On Not Three Gods’
1.7. Gregory of Nazianzus, from Oration XXXI (‘The fifth theological oration’)
1.8. Augustine of Hippo, from On the Holy Trinity
1.9. Pseudo-Dionysius, from Mystical Theology
1.10. Anselm of Canterbury, from the Monologion
1.11. Richard of St Victor, from Of the Trinity
1.12. Thomas Aquinas, from the Summa Theologica
2. The Doctrine of God from the Reformation to the Present Day
Introductory essay
2.1. Martin Luther, from the Large Catechism
2.2. John Calvin, from the Institutes of Christian Religion
2.3. Jonathan Edwards, from ‘An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity’
2.4. Friedrich Schleiermacher, from The Christian Faith
2.5. Charles Hodge, from Systematic Theology
2.6. Karl Barth, from Church Dogmatics I.1
2.7. Karl Rahner, from T...
