History of Christian Theology in the Apostolic Age (2 vols.)

by Édouard Reuss

Publisher:

Hodder and Stoughton

, 1872–1874

Overview

Édouard Reuss’ two-volume History of Christian Theology in the Apostolic Age presents the development of Christian theology from its nascent forms in the late Second Temple period to its full expression at the end of the first century AD. Providing both historical narrative and biblical exegesis, Reuss presents a comprehensive narrative of how early Christian theology developed.

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Key Features

• Examines early Christian theology from a Lutheran perspective
• Unpacks the way early theologians treated specific doctrines
• Combines historical and theological analysis

Top Highlights

“The fundamental and formative idea of the prophetic teaching was that of the theocracy, or of the city of God.” (Volume 1, Page 29)

“Luther and Calvin could not agree; Arminius and Gomar were opposed to each other; Halle and Wittenberg declared open hostility. Orthodoxy, ever jealous to prevent even the possibility of error, could not devise any method more efficacious than that which had always produced precisely the contrary result of endless division—the method, that is, of more and more minute definition of dogma. Wherever men have reflected and speculated upon the facts of the religious consciousness, there has been difference of opinion, the gradual or conflicting development of ideas.” (Volume 1, Pages 6–7)

“It is the blending of these two elements in unequal and various proportions, which has produced the successive evolutions of Christian theology, and which in truth still operates in the same way.” (Volume 1, Page 24)

“Biblical theology is then essentially a historical science. It does not demonstrate, it narrates. It is the first chapter in the history of Christian doctrine.” (Volume 1, Page 10)

“Such an explanation of the characteristic traits of Judaism after the exile is utterly false and inexact.” (Volume 1, Page 39)

Product Details

• Title: History of Christian Theology in the Apostolic Age
• Author: Édouard Reuss
• Translator: Annie Harwood
• Edition: 3rd
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Volumes: 2
• Pages: 972

About Édouard Reuss

Édouard Guillaume Eugène Reuss (1804–1891) was professor of theology, Biblical studies and Christian philosophy at the Protestant Faculty of Strasbourg. He was involved in the translation of the works of John Calvin. He has published Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti Graeci, Die Geschichte der Heiligen Schriften Alten Testaments, and The Bible: New Translation with Notes and Commentaries.