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Catholic thought and thinkers: Introductory

Contents EDITORS' PREFACE pp. 13-14 CHAPTER I FROM THE DIFFUSION OF THE FAITH TO THE DEATH OF ORIGEN (254), (i) The Church in Palestine : influence of Greek philosophy upon Judaism in Alexandria : Syncretist tendencies and the Gnostic systems, (ii) Christianity and philosophy : the earliest Apologists and their method. St. Justin, (iii) The early heresies : Marcionism ; Montanism ; Monarchianism. Neoplatonism. The great Christian protagonists ; St. Irenaeus ; Clement of Alexandria ; Tertullian ; St. Cyprian of Carthage ; Origen . pp. 15-39 CHAPTER II FROM ORIGEN (254) TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTINE (430) (i) The causes of misunderstandings between East and West. The great heresies and the Greek Fathers : Arianism, St. Athanasius : St. Gregory the wonder-worker, and the Cappadocian triad, St. Basil, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory of Nazianzos. St. John Chrysostom ; St. Cyril of Jerusalem. Nestorianism, St. Cyril of Alexandria, (ii) The Latin Fathers ; St. Hilary of Poitiers ; St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, (iii) St. Augustine. The centre of gravity shifts to the West, and the Church now talks Latin. pp 40-60 CHAPTER III FROM THE SACK OF ROME (476) TO THE DECLINE OF THE MIDDLE AGE (1303)

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