A Text-Book Of The History Of Doctrines - Softcover

Karl Rudolf Hagenbach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371630622 ISBN 13: 9780371630624

Publisher: HardPress, 1860

Synopsis

A Text-Book Of The History Of Doctrines by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach presents an analytically rigorous, source-based account of how Christian doctrine developed from the apostolic era to the medieval period. The editor's preface frames the work as a careful balance between unchanging core truths and the historical expressions through which they have been proclaimed. The book treats doctrine as the essential contents of faith that acquire definitional form as dogmas, tracing formation, deforming, and reformation across history. It aims to aid understanding of church history, biblical theology, and systematic theology, while guarding against both rigid orthodoxy and uncritical novelty. The text emphasizes the primacy of primary sources—confessions, councils, canons, catechisms, liturgies—and situates doctrine within historical context and biblical roots. Structure-wise, it divides into General History of Doctrines and Special History of Doctrines, with periods that map the evolution of belief from the Apostolic Age through late antiquity to the Reformation and beyond. It also outlines how the work engages with related disciplines—patristics, history of heresies, philosophy, ethics, and auxiliary sciences—to illuminate doctrine and its development.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1860
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371630622
• ISBN 13: 9780371630624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496