Chapter IV: Constitution, Worship, Life and Discipline

§ 34. THE INNER ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH.
(1) The Continuation of Charismatic Endowments into
Post-Apostolic Times.
(2) The Development of the Episcopal Hierarchy.
(3) The Regular Ecclesiastical Offices of the Old
Catholic Age.
(4) Clergy and Laity.
(5) The Synods.
(6) Personal and Epistolary Intercourse.
(7) The Unity and Catholicity of the Church.
(8) The Roman Primacy.

§ 35. THE ADMINISTRATION OF BAPTISM.
(1) The Preparation for Receiving Baptism.
(2) The Baptismal Formula.
(3) The Administration of Baptism.
(4) The Doctrine of Baptism.
(5) The Controversy about Heretics’ Baptism.

§ 36. PUBLIC WORSHIP AND ITS VARIOUS PARTS.
(1) The Agape.
(2) The _Missa Catechumenorum_.
(3) The _Missa Fidelium_.
(4) The _Disciplina Arcani_.
(5) The Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper.
(6) The Sacrificial Theory.
(7) The Use of Scripture.
(8) Formation of a New Testament Canon.
(9) The Doctrine of Inspiration.
(10) Hymnology.

§ 37. FEASTS AND FESTIVAL SEASONS.
(1) The Festivals of the Christian Year.
(2) The Paschal Controversies.
(3) The Ecclesiastical Institution of Fasting.

§ 38. THE CHURCH BUILDINGS AND THE CATACOMBS.
(1) The Catacombs.
(2) The Antiquities of the Catacombs.
(3) Pictorial Art and the Catacombs.
(4) Pictorial and Artistic Representations.
a. Significant Symbols.
b. Allegorical Figures.
c. Parabolic Figures.
d. Historical Pictures of O. T. Types.
e. Figures from the Gospel History.
f. Liturgical Figures.

§ 39. LIFE, MANNERS, AND DISCIPLINE.
(1) Christian Morals and Manners.
(2) The Penitential Discipline.
(3) Asceticism.
(4) Paul of Thebes.
(5) Beginning of Veneration of Martyrs.
(6) Superstition.

§ 40. THE MONTANIST REFORMATION.
(1) Montanism in Asia Minor.
(2) Montanism at Rome.
(3) Montanism in Proconsular Africa.
(4) The Fundamental Principle of Montanism.
(5) The Attitude of Montanism toward the Church.

§ 41. SCHISMATIC DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH.
(1) The Schism of Hippolytus at Rome about A.D. 220.
(2) The Schism of Felicissimus at Carthage in A.D. 250.
(3) The Schism of the Presbyter Novatian at Rome in
A.D. 251.
(4) The Schism of Meletius in Egypt in A.D. 306.

SECOND SECTION.

The History of the Græco-Roman Church from
the 4th-7th centuries.
A.D. 323-692.

I. CHURCH AND STATE.

§ 42. THE OVERTHROW OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
(1) The Romish Legend of the Baptism of Constantine.
(2) Constantine the Great and his Sons.
(3) Julian the Apostate (A.D. 361-363).
(4) The Later Emperors.
(5) Heathen Polemics and Apologetics.
(6) The Religion of the Hypsistarians.

§ 43. THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL LAW.
(1) The _Jus Circa Sacra_.
(2) The Institution of Œcumenical Synods.
(3) Canonical Ordinances.
(4) Pseudepigraphic Church Ordinances.
(5) The Apostolic Church Ordinances.