The Vision of God. The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum. The Bampton Lectures for 1928
Kenneth Escott Kirk [1886-1954]

Book Description

Title:

The Vision of God. The Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum. The Bampton Lectures for 1928

Authors:

Kenneth Escott Kirk [1886-1954]

Publication Year:

1928

Location:

London & New York

Publisher:

Longmans, Green and Co.

Pages:

583

Subjects:

Bampton Lectures

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Table of Contents

• Extract from the Last Will and Testament of the Late Rev. John Bampton, Canon of Salisbury
• Preface
• Lecture 1. The Vision of God and the Problem of Discipline
1. The Vision of God
2. The Problem of Discipline
3. The Vision of God—Jewish Anticipations
4. The Vision of God—Pagan Anticipations
5. Philo and the Hermetica
   
• Lecture 2. The New Testament
1. Rigorism and Eschatology in the Teaching of Jesus
2. New Testament Variations
3. The origin of New Testament Rigorism
4. The Vision of God in the New Testament
• Lecture 3. Formalism
1. The Beginnings of Codification
2. Codification of the New Testament
3. The Dangers of Formalims
4. The Motive of Reward in the Gospels
5. Discipline in the New Testament
6. Discipline at Rome
• Lecture 4. Rigorism
1. The Beginnings of Monasticism
2. Monasticism and the Vision of God
3. The Gnostics
4. Marcion, Tertuillian and Montanus
5. Rigorist Discipline
6. The Sinlessness of the Christian
• Lecture 5. The Reply to Rigorism (I-Discipline)
1. Rigorists and Humanists
2. The Two Lives
3. The Reform of Monasticims
4. The Reform of Penance
5. Penacne in the Middle Ages
• Lecture 6. The Reply to Rigorism (II-Doctrine)
1. Naturalism and Christianity
2. Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria
3. S. Augustine
4. S. Bernard of Clairvaux
• Lecture 7. Confusion and Order
1. The Twelfth Century
2. The School of S. Victor
3. S. Thomas Aquinas
4. S. Ignatius of Loyola
5. S. Frances de Sales
• Lecture 8. Law and Promise
1. The Reserval of Tradition
2. 'Worship' and 'Service'
3. Distinterestedness and Pure Love
4. Conclusion
• Additional Notes
1. The so-called ' Mithras-liturgy'
2. Aristotle and the 'bios theoretikos'
3. The original text of Mark 10.23-26
4. Pagan asceticism
5. The use of ' psychikos' in early gnostic literature
6. 'Panhedonism'
7. The alleged pagan origin of Christian monasticism
8. Marcion
9. Public penance in the first five centuries
10. Tertullian's theory of penance
11. The double standard and works of supererogation
12. Gregory the Great on the contemplative life
13. Cassian on the double standard
14. Modem versions of the double standard
15. The question of private absolution in the early Church
16. Abailard on mortal and venial sin
17. Mediaeval homilies
18. Augustinism
19. S. Thomas on mystical experience and beatitude
20. Disinterestedness and allied ideas
• Index

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