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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. NOTE I. THE SYRIAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. (Vide Supra, p. 8.) Much has been written at home, and more has come to us from abroad, on the subject of the early Syrian theology, since this Volume was published. At that time, it was at Oxford considered a paradox to look to Antioch for the origin of a heresy which takes its name from an Alexandrian ecclesiastic, and which Mosheim had ruled to be one out of many instances of the introduction of Neo-Platonic ideas into the Christian Church. The Divinity Professor of the day, a learned and kind man, Dr. Burton, in talking with me on the subject, did but qualify his surprise at the view which I had taken, by saying to me, " Of course you have a right to your own opinion." Since that time, it has become clear, from the works of Neander and others, that Arianism was but one out of various errors, traceable to one and the same mode of theologizing, and that mode, as well as the errors it originated, the characteristics of the Syrian school. I have thought it would throw light on the somewhat meagre account of it at the beginning of this Volume, if I here added a passage on the same subject, as contained in one of my subsequent works1. The Churches of Syria and Asia Minor were the most intellectual portion of early Christendom. Alexandria was 1 " Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine," pp. 281, 323. but one metropolis in a large region, and contained the philosophy of the whole Patriarchate; but Syria abounded in wealthy and luxurious cities, the creation of the Seleucidae, where the arts and the schools of Greece had full opportunities of cultivation. For a time too, --for the first two hundred years, as some think, --Alexandria was the only See as well as the only School of Egypt;...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230308725
- ISBN 13 9781230308722
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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