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CONTAINING THE CHIEF TOPICS, PROPER NAMES, AND TECHNICAL TERMS, REFERRED TO IN THE LECTURES.

Abstract ideas, Greek tendency to, 116-118.

AEon, common Gnostic idea, 190; two ways of viewing the AEons, 258 fin., 259.

Africanus, Julius, as an exegete, 81.

Alogi, 252, n. ?.

Ambrose of Milan, his ethics Stoic, 169.

Antiochene School, its exegesis, 81, 82.

Apostolic doctrine, idea of, 316, 317; "Apostles' Creed," 317-319.

Aristobulus, his allegorism, 66 fin.

Association at first voluntary, 334, 335.

Associations, Greek religious, 290 ff. Syncretistic, akin to "mysteries," 290, 291; purity of life required, 141; mixed elements, 291, 292; effects on Christianity, 292-295, cf. 141.

Athenagoras on absolute creation, 196; transcendence of God, 253; his Monism, 265.

Bishops, and the "rule of faith," 317, 318; speculative interpretation by consensus, 326, 327; results, 327 ff.

Canon of N. T., development of the idea, 319-321.

Celsus, his and Porphyry's polemic against Christian allegorism, 80; on relation of Christianity and philosophy, 127, 128, cf. 11 init.

Christianity, primitive: the New Law, 158-162; its ethical idea of God, 224, 225; its theological basis, 238, 239, 251, 252.

Church, its early character, 335; holiness, 335-337; hope, 337, 338.

Clement of Alexandria, his allegorism, 70; appeal to hieroglyphics, 71; and N. T. allegories, 76; on Christianity and philosophy, 127; on the Conservatives, 130, 131.

Consecration of the elements: the formula secret, 302, n. ?.

Conservatism: Clement and Tertullian on it, 130, 131; in Ebionites and Elchasaites, 252, 337; often not recognized as such , e.g. in Origen, 323; the simpler sort, 324; Paul of Samosata, 327, cf. 345, 346; in Puritanism, 347, 348; Monachism, 348, 349.

Creed, the, 313 ff.; its germs, 313, 314; the baptismal formula, 314, 315; becomes a test, 315; expanded, 315, 316; by "Apostolic teaching," 316, 317; the "Apostles' Creed" of the Bishops , 317-319.

Cyprian characterized, 8.

Daemons, 246, especially n. ?.

Definition among the Greeks, 118; influence on Catholic Church, 135, 330, 331.

Development not arrested, 332, 351, 352.

Dialectic, Greek, 118 fin.

Dionysius Areopagites sums up the influence of the "mysteries," 303, 304.

Dogma , its original sense, 119, 120; later Dogmatism, 121-123; the age of Dogmatism, 280.

Ebionites become "heretics," 132; as Conservatives, 252, n. ?.

Essentia: its bad Latinity a source of disuse, 277, especially n. ?.

Exorcism in relation to Monism, 20, especially n.; in Baptism, 307, 308, n. ?.

Grammar in Greek education, 28 ff.

??????????, and ?????????????, 28 fin.; its elements, 29, 30.

Hellenism characterized, 13, 14.

Heresy, original use of term, 340, n. ?.

Hippolytus, 6; his theory of creation, 203.

History, its difficulties and rewards, 22-24.

Homer in Greek thought, 51 ff.; in Christian theology, 69, 70.

Homily, the, 109-113.

???????? and cognate terms for ministrants, 303, n. ?.

Immortality in the Mysteries, 289, 290.

Initiation : its stages, 284, n. ?; its idea, 285. Proclamation, 285, 286; confession and baptism , 287; sacrifice, procession, &c., 287, 288; mystic drama, its nature, 288-290.

Inspiration in Greece, connected with rhythm, 51.

Judaism as basis of Christian theology, 238, 239.

Lucian and the Antiochene exegesis, 81, 82.

Marcion, his ditheistic tendency, 227, 230; his idea of a Canon, 321; his literal method, 325.

Maximus of Tyre, 6; quoted for God's transcendence, 242.

Metaphysics and revelation, 137, 138.

Modalism, its two types, 257 ff.

Monachism: parallel of Greek and Christian, 167, 168; a reaction, 348, 349.

Monarchianism a witness to older "Monarchia," 206, 207.

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