The Progress of Dogma: Being the Elliot Lectures

by James Orr

Publishers:

A. C. Armstrong and Son; Hodder and Stoughton

, 1901

Overview

The Progress of Dogma contains 10 lectures originally delivered in 1897 at Western Theological Seminary. Covering the history of dogma, The first six lectures deal with the early period of development, the seventh with the Middle Ages, the eighth with the Reformation, and the last two lectures with modern developments. Includes a detailed table of contents and helpful notes. The lectures are as follows:

• Idea of Course—Relations of Dogma to Its History—Parallelism of Logical and Historical Developments
• Early Apologetic and Fundamental Religious Ideas—Controversy with Paganism and Gnosticism (Second Century)
• The Doctrine of God; Trinity and Deity of Son and Spirit—Monarchian, Arian, and Macedonian Controversies (Third and Fourth Centuries)
• Same Subject Continued—Arian and Macedonian Controversies
• The Doctrine of Man and Sin; Grace and Predestination—Augustinian and Pelagian Controversy (Fifth Century)
• The Doctrine of the Person of Christ—The Christological Controversies: Apollinarian, Nestorian, Euthychian, Monophysite, Monothelite (Fifth to Seventh Centuries)
• The Doctrine of Atonement—Anselm and Abelard to Reformation (Eleventh to Sixteenth Centuries)
• The Doctrine of the Application of Redemption; Justification by Faith, Regeneration, Etc.—Protestantism and Roman Catholicism (Sixteenth Century)
• Post-Reformation Theology: Lutheranism and Calvinism—New Influences Acting of Theology and Their Results in Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
• Modern Restatement of the Problems of Theology—The Doctrine of the Last Things (Nineteenth Century)

Praise for the Print Edition

Professor Orr has produced a valuable, timely, and most interesting contribution to an important subject.

—Critical Review

A very good piece of work . . . The story of the growth of Christian dogma from the earliest days to our own time demands high powers and considerable courage in the narrator. These qualities Dr. Orr possesses in a marked degree.

—Guardian

Product Details

• Title: The Progress of Dogma: Being the Elliot Lectures
• Author: James Orr
• Publishers: A. C. Armstrong and Son, Hodder and Stoughton
• Print Publication Date: 1901
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 365
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Dogma
• Resource ID: LLS:PROGDOGMAORR
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:55:09Z

About James Orr

James Orr (1844-1913), born in Glasgow, was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was minister at East Bank United Presbyterian Church, Hawick from 1874 to 1891, and professor of apologetics and theology at Glasgow College of the United Free Church from 1901 until his death. One of his more prominent works is The Christian View of God and the World as Centering in the Incarnation (1893).

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