Excerpt from History of Christian Doctrine
Several years have elapsed since I engaged to prepare this work. The unexpected delay in its publication is owing chiefly to the pressure of other and more imperative engagements. One reason for it, however, is the fact that, although the subject is one which I had long studied and on which I had given instruction to many successive classes, more time was required for the composition of the book than I had anticipated. This is partly for the reason that it appeared to me, for the present purpose, expedient to abandon for the most part the method which I had always followed in my Lectures of arranging the matter under the heads of General and Special Doctrinal History. On this topic something more is said in the introductory chapter. This change of plan has involved an entire recasting of the materials to be incorporated into this volume.
A number of the ablest of the recent German writers on Dogmengeschichte confine themselves to a description of the rise and establishment of dogmas in the official significance of the term, according to which it denotes simply the accredited tenets of the principal divisions of the Church. The terminus of this branch of study is, therefore, set not later than about the opening of the seventeenth century. In the present work, the history of theological thought is carried forward through the subsequent essays at doctrinal construction down to the present time. In other words, the present work is a history of Doctrine as well as of Dogmas.
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