INTRODUCTION.
FIRST PERIOD. FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE DEATH OF ORIGEN, OR FROM THE YEAR 80 TO THE YEAR 254.
THE AGE OF APOLOGETICS.
A. GENERAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES DURING THE FIRST PERIOD.
B. SPECIAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES DURING THE FIRST PERIOD.
FIRST DIVISION. APOLOGETICO DOGMATIC PROLEGOMENA.
TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY. REVELATION AND SOURCES OF REVELATION. SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION.
SECOND DIVISION. THEOLOGY.
THE DOCTRINE RESPECTING GOD (INCLUDING THE DOCTRINE OP THE CREATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD; THE DOCTRINE ABOUT ANGELS AND DEMONS).
THIRD DIVISION. ANTHROPOLOGY.
FOURTH DIVISION. CHRISTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY.
FIFTH DIVISION. THE CHURCH AND ITS MEANS OF GRACE.
SIXTH DIVISION. THE DOCTRINE ABOUT THE LAST THINGS. (ESCHATOLOGY.)
SECOND PERIOD. FROM THE DEATH OF ORIGEN TO JOHN DAMASCENUS, FROM THE YEAR 254 TO THE YEAR 730.
THE AGE OF POLEMICS.
A. GENERAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES IN THE SECOND PERIOD.
B. SPECIAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES DURING THE SECOND PERIOD.
FIRST CLASS. DOCTRINAL DEFINITIONS OF THE CHURCH IN THE CONTEST WITH HERESIES.
(POLEMICAL PART.)
FIRST DIVISION. DOCTRINES RESPECTING THEOLOGY AND CHRISTOLOGY.
a. THEOLOGY PROPER.
b. CHRISTOLOGY.
SECOND DIVISION. DOCTRINES RESPECTING ANTHROPOLOGY.
SECOND CLASS. CHURCH DOCTRINES WHICH WERE EITHER NOT CONNECTED, OR BUT REMOTELY, WITH THE HERESIES OF THE AGE.
(DIDACTIC PART.)
1. Apologetic and Normal Doctrines.—Prolegomena.
2. The Doctrine concerning God.
3. Soteriology.
4. The Church and its Means of Grace.
5. The Doctrine of the Last Things.
THIRD PERIOD. FROM JOHN DAMASCENUS TO THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION, FROM THE YEAR 730 TO THE YEAR 1517.
THE AGE OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
(scholasticism in the widest sense of the word).
A. GENERAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES DURING THE THIRD PERIOD.
B. SPECIAL HISTORY OF DOCTRINES DURING THE THIRD PERIOD.
FIRST DIVISION. APOLOGETICO-DOGMATIC PROLEGOMENA.
TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY.—RELATION BETWEEN REASON AND REVELATION.—SOURCES OF REVELATION.—SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION.
SECOND DIVISION. THEOLOGY (INCLUDING COSMOLOGY, ANGELOLOGY, DEMONOLOGY, ETC.)