Gospel Message and Hellenistic Culture

List of Abbreviations 
Introduction 
Translator's Note 
CONTENTS 
PART  I  PREPARATION  FOR  THE  GOSPEL 
1. MISSIONARY  LITERATURE 
The Missionary Purpose of  the Apologists 
The Content of  the Message 
The Challenge 
2. THE WISDOM  OF  THE  GENTILES 
Justin and the Holy Pagans 
Clement of Alexandria and the Primitive Tradition 
Limitations of Hellenism 
3·  HOMER  IN  THE  FATHERS  OF  THE  CHuRCH 
The Apologists 
The Gnostics 
Clement of Alexandria 
The Cohortatio Ad Graecos and Methodius of Olympus 
4·  PLATO IN CHRISTIAN  MIDDLE PLATONISM 
5· ARISTOTLE  AND  CHRISTIAN  APOLOGETIC 
PART  II  EXPOUNDING THE  FAITH 
6.  THE  APOSTOLIC  TRADITION 
The Tradition before  Irenaeus 
Traditio ab Apostolis 
The Succession of Bishops 
The Unity of the Tradition 
Tradition and Scripture 
Appended Note :  The Tradition after  Irenaeus 
7.  THE CoNTENT  OF  THE  CATECHESIS 
Incarnation and Redemption in Justin Martyr 
Recapitulation in Irenaeus 
Clement, Hippolytus, Origen 
PART  III  THE  PROOF OF THE  GOSPEL 
INTRODUCTION 
8.  JUSTIN  AND THE OLD  TESTAMENT 
Justin's Typological Exegesis 
The Proof from Prophecy 
9·  EXEGESIS  IN  IRENAEUS  AND  MELITO 
Typology and Salvation-History 
Demonstratio Prophetica 
Melito's Homily on the Passion 
1O.  CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA  AS  EXEGETE 
11.  HIPPOLYTUS AND THE EXTENSION OF TYPOLOGY 
12.  0RIGEN'S  EXEGETICAL  METHOD 
The Organisation of Typology 
Allegorical Exegesis 
13. TYPOLOGY AND RHETORIC IN METHODIUS 
PART  IV  THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS 
14·  PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY 
15·  THE  TRANSCENDENCE OF GoD 
Hellenistic Judaism 
Middle Platonist Sources 
Gnosticism 
The Three Ways 
16.  THE PERSON OF THE WORD 
Justin and the Apologists 
Irenaeus 
Clement of Alexandria 
Origen 
CONTENTS 
17.  PROBLEMS  OF  ANTHROPOLOGY 
The Apologists 
Man in the Image and Likeness of God in the Writings of Irenaeus 
Clement of Alexandria 
Origen and the Pre-Existence of Souls 
18.  DEMONOLOGY 
Demons and Idolatry  in the Apologists 
The Demonology of Origen 
PART  V  CHRISTIAN  GNOSIS 
INTRODUCTION 
19.  GNOSIS  IN  CLEMENT  OF  ALEXANDRIA 
The Gnostic 
The Gnostic Tradition 
Sacred Space and Time 
20. GNOSIS  IN  0RIGEN 
The Secret Doctrines 
Celestial Nations and Cosmic Years 
Gnosis and Apocalypse 
Postscript : The Permanent Significance of the Fathers of the 
Second and Third Centuries by John Austin Baker 
Bibliography 
Textual Indexes 
a.  Old Testament 
b.  Apocrypha  (Biblical) 
c.  New Testament 
d.  Jewish Writings 
e.  Jewish Christian Writings 
f.  Gnostic Writings 
g.  Fathers of  the Church 
h.  Miscellaneous Writings 
General Index