What is Christianity?

Description

A series of lectures delivered by Adolf Harnack at the University of Berlin during the Winter-Term 1899-1900, translated into English by Thomas Bailey Saunders. In this influential work, Harnack seeks to identify the essence of Christianity by stripping away historical accretions and dogmatic developments to focus on the core message of Jesus. The text is divided into sections covering the leading features of Jesus' message—such as the Kingdom of God and the commandment of love—the Gospel's relation to social and legal problems, and the historical development of the Christian religion through the Apostolic Age, Catholicism, and Protestantism.

Table of contents 17 entries

I. The Gospel: Preliminary 5
1. The Leading Features of Jesus' Message p. 21
2. The Kingdom of God and Its Coming p. 67
3. God the Father and the Infinite Value of the Human Soul p. 79
4. The Higher Righteousness and the Commandment of Love p. 87
5. The Gospel and the World: The Question of Asceticism p. 95
6. The Gospel and the Poor: The Social Question p. 105
7. The Gospel and Law: The Question of Public Order p. 121
8. The Gospel and Work: The Question of Civilisation p. 136
9. The Gospel and the Son of God: The Christological Question 133
10. The Gospel and Doctrine: The Question of Creed 157
II. The Gospel in History: The Christian Religion 164
1. In the Apostolic Age 164
2. In Its Development into Catholicism 204
3. In Greek Catholicism 233
4. In Roman Catholicism 263
5. In Protestantism 287