Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part One: Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Fathers of the Church
1. Paradosis and Traditio: A Word Study
2. From the κανὼν τῆς ληθείας to the κανὼν τῶν γραφῶν: The Rule of Faith and the New Testament Canon
3. The Bishop in the Mirror: Scripture and Irenaeus’s Self-Understanding in Adversus haereses Book One
4. Prosper, Cassian, and Vincent: The Rule of Faith in the Augustinian Controversy
Part Two: Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Arian Controversy
5. Joseph Lienhard, Marcellus of Ancyra, and Marcellus’s Rule of Faith
6. Apollinarius and the First Nicene Generation
7. The Enigma of Meletius of Antioch
Part Three: Augustine, Tradition, and the Rule of Faith
8. Augustine’s Appeal to Tradition
9. Augustine, Paul, and the Ueritas Catholica
10. How Christ Saves: Augustine’s Multiple Explanations
11. Augustine Laughed: De beata vita
12. Unum Deum . . . Mundi Conditorem: Implications of the Rule of Faith in Augustine’s Understanding of Time and History
Part Four: The Traditio Patrum
13. Traditio Patrum in Early Christian Ireland
14. Interpretation, Assimilation, Appropriation: Recent Commentators on Augustine and His Tradition
15. (Re)defining the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: The Rule of Faith and the Twentieth-Century Rehabilitation of Origen
16. Erasmus’s Edition of Origen
Joseph T. Lienhard Significant Dates and Bibliography
Contributors
Index