Christian ethics show agreement amid difference; based upon the Divine command; idea of sin: agreement most emphasized at first, i.e. the importance of conduct 158, 159 1. Tone of earliest Christian writings: the “Two Ways:” Apostolical Constitutions, Bk. i. 159-162 2. Place of discipline in Christian life: Puritan ideal _v._ later _corpus permixtum_ 162-164 Further developments due to Greece: 1. A Church within the Church: _askesis_, Monasticism 164-168 2. Resulting deterioration of average ethics: Ambrose of Milan 168, 169 Complete victory of Greek ethics seen in the basis of modern society 169, 170 LECTURE VII. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. I. THE CREATOR. The idea of One God, begotten of the unity and order of the world, and connected with the ideas of personality and mind. Three elements in the idea—Creator, Moral Governor, Absolute Being 171-174 Growth of idea of a beginning: Monism and Dualism 174, 175 1. Monism of the Stoics: _natura naturata_ and _naturans_: a beginning not necessarily involved 175-177 2. Dualism, Platonic: creation recognized 177-180 Syncretistic blending of these as to process: _Logos_ idea common. Hence Philo’s significance: God as Creator: Monistic and Dualistic aspects; his terms for the Forces in their plurality and unity: after all, God is Creator, even Father, of the world 180-188 Early Christian idea of a single supreme Artificer took permanent root; but questions as to mode emerged, and the first answers were tentative 188-190 1. Evolutional type; supplemented by idea of a lapse 190-194 2. Creational type accepted 194 There remained: (i.) The ultimate relation of matter to God: Dualistic solutions: Basilides’ Platonic theory the basis of the later doctrine, though not at once recognized 194-198 (ii.) The Creator’s contact with matter: Mediation hypothesis: the _Logos_ solution 198-200 (iii.) Imperfection and evil: Monistic and Dualistic answers, especially Marcion’s 200, 201 But the Divine Unity overcomes all: position of Irenæus, &c., widely accepted: Origen’s cosmogony a theodicy. Prevalence of the simpler view seen in Monarchianism 202-207