The Apostles’ Creed. Origin, History and some early Commentaries

CONTENTS
Preface .
Introduction
Preliminary Note to Chapter One.
Chapter One: The Origin of the Apostles' Creed
1.1 Introduction .
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1.2 First Investigations 23
1.3 The Nineteenth Century: Caspari, Kattenbusch, and
the Hypothesis of R . 25
1.4 The Evidence for R 27
1.5 An Alternative Theory: Vinzent 30
1.6 Evaluation of Vinzent's Arguments 33
1.7 The Contribution of Kelly 37
1.8 Evaluation of Vinzent's Arguments (continued) . 40
1.9 Twentieth-century Developments . 46
1.10 Another Modern Alternative: Kinzig 49
1.11 Evaluation of Kinzig's Arguments . 52
1.12 Hippolytus, the traditio apostolica, and the collectio
V eronensis 54
1.13 Baptismal Questions and Declaratory Formulae. 56
1.14 The Relationship between the Baptismal Questions of
the collectio V eronensis and R: Kelly and Bolland 60
1.15 The Contribution of Smulders 63
1.16 A New Hypothesis: Proto-R. 65
1.17 Summary and Closing Remarks . 68
Chapter Two: Changes in the Form of the Apostles' Creed
2.1 The Traditional Explanation: Regional Types 73
2.2 Two Types of Credal V ariety . 76
2.3 A wareness and Appreciation of Credal Variety in the
Sources. 76
2.4 Testimonies for Changes of W ording in the Creed 86
2.5 Testimonies for Change in the Content of the Creed. 90
2.6 A Theory of Credal Change 92
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2.7 Summary and Further Hypotheses
Chapter Three: In Search of Regional Types of the Creed
3.1 Introduction and Methodological Points
3.2 Gallican forms of the Creed
3.3 Spanish forms of the Creed
3.4 African forms of the Creed
3.5 North Italian forms of the Creed.
3.6 Other forms of the Creed
3.7 Comparison and Analysis
3.8 The Question of Regional Types of the Apostles' Creed.
Chapter Four: Anonymous Witnesses to the form of the
Creed
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4.1 Introduction. 277
4.2 The Pseudo-Ambrosian exhortatio de symbolo ad neophytos
CPL 178. 280
4.3 The Anonymous expositio symboli CPL 229a . 291
4.4 The Pseudo-Augustinian expositio super symbolum CPL
365 297
4.5 The Anonymous expositio de {ide catholica CPL 505 307
4.6 The Pseudo-Fulgentian sermo de symbolo CPL 846 . 318
4.7 Two Pseudo-Chrysostomic expositiones symboli CPL 915 328
4.8 The Pseudo-Augustinian sermo 244, or excarpsum de
{ide catholica (CPL 368, 244), Ascribed to Caesarius of
Arles (CPL 1008, 10) . 343
4.9 The Pseudo-Athanasian enarratio in symbolum apostolorum
CPL 17 44a . 351
4.10 The Anonymous tractatus symboli CPL 1751 . 361
4.11 The Anonymous symbolum apostolorum CPL 1758 369
4.12 The Anonymous sermo de symbolo CPL 1759. 371
4.13 The Anonymous expositio super symbolum CPL 1760 378
4.14 The Anonymous expositio symboli CPL 1761. 381
4.15 The Anonymous de {ide trinitatis quomodo exponitur
CPL 1762 387
4.16 The Anonymous expositio fidei CPL 1763. 392
4.17 A Newly Discovered Anonymous expositio symboli . 395