Associations, Greek religious, 290 ff. Syncretistic, akin to “mysteries,” 290, 291; purity of life required, 141; mixed elements, 291, 292; effects on Christianity, 292-295, cf. 141. Athenagoras on absolute creation, 196; transcendence of God, 253; his Monism, 265. Baptism and dualism, 19. Primitive simplicity, 294, 295; its formula, 315; its ethical character among the Elchasaites, 337; later change in name, 295, 296; in time, 296, 297; minor features—“_symbolum_,” lights, &c., 298, 299; late ritual, 299, 300; Gnostic realism, 306; and unction, 307. Its importance, 341, 342. Basilides characterized, 9, n. ²; his view of creation, 195, 196; of transcendence, 254, 255; genesis of the _Logos_, 263. Bishops, and the “rule of faith,” 317, 318; speculative interpretation by consensus, 326, 327; results, 327 ff. Canon of N. T., development of the idea, 319-321. Catholic Church, its genesis, 11, 132; put an end to “prophesying,” 107; a fusion of Christianity and Greek philosophy, 125; unconsciously Hellenized, 132-135; as a “_corpus permixtum_,” 164. Celsus, his and Porphyry’s polemic against Christian allegorism, 80; on relation of Christianity and philosophy, 127, 128, cf. 11 init. Christianity, primitive: the New Law, 158-162; its ethical idea of God, 224, 225; its theological basis, 238, 239, 251, 252. Church, its early character, 335; holiness, 335-337; hope, 337, 338. Clement of Alexandria, his allegorism, 70; appeal to hieroglyphics, 71; and N. T. allegories, 76; on Christianity and philosophy, 127; on the Conservatives, 130, 131. _Clementines, the_: their Old Testament criticism, 71; God just and good, 229, 230. Consecration of the elements: the formula secret, 302, n. ⁶. Conservatism: Clement and Tertullian on it, 130, 131; in Ebionites and Elchasaites, 252, 337; often not recognized as such (cf. Ebionites), e.g. in Origen, 323; the simpler sort, 324; Paul of Samosata, 327, cf. 345, 346; in Puritanism, 347, 348; Monachism, 348, 349. Creed, the, 313 ff.; its germs, 313, 314; the baptismal formula, 314, 315; becomes a test, 315; expanded, 315, 316; by “Apostolic teaching,” 316, 317; the “Apostles’ Creed” of the Bishops (παράδοσις ἐκκλησιαστική), 317-319. Cyprian characterized, 8. Dæmons, 246, especially n. ³. Definition among the Greeks, 118; influence on Catholic Church, 135, 330, 331. Development not arrested, 332, 351, 352. Dialectic, Greek, 118 fin. _Didaché, the_: the “Two Ways” emphasizes conduct, 160, 161, 335, 336; and the idea of wages, 225; its simple theology, 251, 252; Baptism, 294, 295, cf. 315; the Lord’s Supper, 300, 301; intercommunion based on moral test, 343, 344.