An edition of Eucharist and penance in the first six centuries of the church
(1913)
Eucharist and penance in the first six centuries of the church
authorized trans. from the 2nd German ed.
by Gerhard Rauschen
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Eucharist and Penance in the first six centuries of the church
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CONTENTS
PART I. THE HOLY EUCHARIST
§ 1.— The Real Presence I
The Question Stated, 1 — Doctrine of the Didache, 2 — of Ignatius, 3 — of Justin, 5 — of Irenaeus, 6 — of Clement of Alexandria and Origen, 7 — of Tertullian, 11 — of Cyprian, 15 — of Chrysostom,
18 — of Augustine, 19.
§ 2. — Transubstantiation 25
Teaching of the Church, 25 — Indecision in regard to this doctrine before 1200 exaggerated by Batiffol, 26 — Teaching of Justin, 30 — of Irenaeus, 32 — of Tertullian, 33 — of Cyril of Jerusalem, 34 — of Chrysostom, 35 — of Gregory of Nyssa, 35 — of Ambrose. 38 — of Cyril of Alexandria, 39 — of Theodore 01 Mopsuestia, 40 — of John Damascene, 40 — The precision of the doctrine in the Greek and Latin Churches, 42.
§ 3.— The Institution of the Eucharist 44 A general survey of the new theories of present-day liberal Protestantism in regard to the LastSupper, 44 — Biblical accounts of the institution, 45 —
Spitta and Schweitzer, 49 — Andersen, 50 — Johann Hoffmann, 53 — Holtzmann, 56 — K. G. Goetz, 57 — Criticism, 59.
§ 4. — The Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass 62 Renz's book on this subject, 62 — His concept of the mass the concept of Christian antiquity, 64 — Recent theories in regard to the mass, 65 — Renz's idea that the essence of the mass lies in communion untrue, 67 — His appeal to Justin, Irenaeus, Cyprian and Gregory the Great, unwarranted, 67 — Scripture affords us evidence of the sacrificial character of the Eucharist, 71 — Cyprian introduced no new theory of sacrifice into the church, 73 — Wieland-Dorsch controversy, 75 — Wieland's error in claiming that the celebration of the Eucharist in the primitive church bore the character of a common meal, 77 — Sacrifice proper something more than gift-offering, 81 — Examination of Wieland's main contentions, 83 — According to the N. T., 83 — The Didache, 86 — Clement of Rome, 86 — Ignatius, 87 — Apologists of the second century, 87 — Clement of Alexandria, 91 — Tertullian and Irenaeus, 92 — Conclusions, 94.
§ 5. — The Canon of the Mass 98 The Eucharistic prayer of the Didache, 98 — Justin's testimony in regard to the prayer of consecration, 101 — The recently discovered canon of Serapion, bishop of Thmuis, 102 — Derivation of the canon from the ritual of the Jewish Pasch, 106 — Derivation from the Jewish religious meal service, 107 — Origin of the Roman canon according to Drews, 110 — According to Baumstark, 111 — Funk's appreciation, 112 — Criticism, 113.
§ 6.— The Epiclesis 115 The universality and antiquity of the Epiclesis, 116 — The Epiclesis first a mooted question in the 15th century, 117 — Explanation of the Epiclesis, 120 — The teaching of tradition on the moment of consecration, 123 — Conclusion, 128 — List of Patristic passages on the subject, 130.
§ 7.— Frequent Communion in the Early Church and the Preparation Demanded for It 134 Sunday the regular day for the Eucharistic service, 135 — Daily Eucharistic sacrifice in Africa in the 3rd century, 136 — Likewise daily in the Western Church, less often in the Oriental Church, 137 — First utterance of complaints about the negligence of the faithful in receiving communion, 140 — Monastic rule of weekly communion, 142 — Communion in the homes of Christians, 144 — Eulogia, 145 — Communion to infants, 146 — Disposition of the soul for Communion, 147 — of the body, 149.
PART II. THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
§ 8.— Ecclesiastical Absolution from Capital Sins in the First Three Centuries 152 Data in the controversy, 152 — The Shepherd of Hermas on the penitential discipline, 155 — Dionysius of Corinth, 159 — Irenaeus, 160 — The De paenitentia and De pudicitia of Tertullian, 161 — The controversy and Cyprian, 165 — Conclusion in regard to the ecclesiastical discipline in the Latin Church, 173 — The attitude of the Oriental Church, 180.
§ 9. — Public Confession. 184 Definitions, 184 — Public confession required for capital sins committed publicly, 187 — The three capital sins to be regarded generically, 191 — Broader conception of the sins mortal, 192 — The seven capital sins, 193
§10.— Public Penance 194 Direction of the public penance, 104 — Was it required for secret sins? 196 — Forms of public penance, 199 — Classes of penitents, 201— "Peaceletters" of the martyrs, 203 — No repetition of public penance, 207 — Submission to this discipline at the hour of death, 207 — Relaxation of the early discipline from the fifth century onward, 209 — Disappearance of the system in the East, 210 — in the West, 212.
§10.— Auricular Confession 213 Obscurity of the question, 214 — Criticism of recent literature on the subject, 216 — No sacramental absolution given before penance was performed, 219 — Private confession m close connection with public penance, 223 — Increasing importance and spread of private confession in the fourth and fifth centuries, 225 — Confession of capital sins demanded, 226 — Objections from Origen, 230 — from Tertullian, 230 — from Augustine, 231 — from Chrysostom, 231 — Difference between the present practice of penance and confession and that of early Christian times, 234 — The practice of confession in the ancient monasteries, 238 — Universal spread of periodic confession in the early Middle Ages, 240 — The deprecatory formula of absolution, 242 — Sacramental character of ab- solution, 243 — The power of binding and loosing exclusively exercised by the monks in the Greek Church, 246 — The seal of confession, 249.
§ 12.— Retrospect 250
Index 253
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