VON SODEN. _The History of Early Christian Literature. Writings of the N.T._ Engl. transl., by J. R. Wilkinson. Williams & Norgate, 1906. 476 pp., 12mo. A book for beginners by a great N.T. scholar of liberal views. A closely connected field is covered by various _Histories of the Apostolic Age_, of which the most recent and important are those of Weizsäcker (Engl. transl., 1895) and McGiffert (1897). Less technical and more orthodox are those of Vernon-Bartlett (1899) and J. H. Ropes (1906). _Critical Lives of Christ_ present the results of critical study of the Gospels. A survey of this field of research, keenly analytical and severely critical, is given by A. Schweitzer in _The Quest of the Historical Jesus_ (Engl. transl. by W. Montgomery. A. & C. Black, 1910. 416 pp., 8vo). Schweitzer writes with great scholarship and power, but decided polemic interest as a "consistent eschatologist." INDEX Abomination, 161, 218 Acts, 57 ff., 64 ff., 174 ff. Agabus, 185, 202 Allegory (in John), 224 Angelology and demonology, 95 Antichrist, 217 f. Anti-legalism (of Mark), 166 Antinomian heresy, 149, 214 Antioch, 71, 175 ff., 183 f. Apocalypses, 29, 51, 87, 188, 197 Apostolic Christianity, 42, 126, 129, 246 Apostolic Commission, 238 f. Apostolic Council, 60, 63, 67 Apotheosis doctrine, 49 Appendix to John, 107, 147, 211, 236 ff. Asia, Churches of, 197 ff. Athanasius, 29 f. Babylon (= Rome), 115, 196 Baptist (in John), 225 Bar Cocheba, 204 _Baruch, Apocalypse of_ 188 Baur, F. C., 37 ff. Beloved disciple, the, 227, 243 ff. Cæsarea, 85 Calvin, 37 Canonization of the Law, 12 Cerinthus, 219 Chiliasts, 187 Christological Epistles, 97 Christ-party, 45 Clement of Rome, 19 f., 79, 115, 119 Clement of Alexandria, 25 _Clementine Homilies and Recognitions_, 148 Colossians, 98 Corinthian Epistles, 76 ff. Decrees of Jerusalem, 60 Diary of Acts, 183 Dionysius of Alexandria, 191 Disputed books, 30 Doketism, 21, 110, 126, 153, 163, 184, 186, 214, 217, 219 Elder (of 2nd and 3rd John), 215 Elements, 76, 99 Ephesians, 98 Ephesus, 76, 97, 111 f., 191, 201, 211 Epiphanius, 131 Epistles (Major), 43 Epistles of the Captivity, 42, 85, 100 Eschatological discourse, 161 Esdras (Apocalypse of), 188 External evidence, 38 False brethren, 41 Feasts (in John), 226 Fornication, 60, 77 Gaius (3rd John), 215 f. Gaius of Rome, 31, 237 Galatians, 56, 74 Gentile liberty, 61 ff. Gnosticism, 40, 108, 207 f. _Gospel according to the Hebrews_, 135, 145 _Gospel of the Nazarenes_, 132, 145 ff., 236 Harnack, 98 Hebrews, 107, 116 ff. Hebrews, Apostolic authority in, 18 Hebrews, Canonical standing of, 31 Hegesippus, 105 f., 111 Hellenistic religion, 247 Hermas, 21, 28, 119 f., 237 Ignatius, 20 f., 23, 111, 124, 126, 208