| Christian Gnosis and Hellenism |
211 |
| Philosophy and Spirituality |
212 |
| The Origins of Neo-Platonism |
214 |
| Neo-Pythagoreanism |
215 |
| St Justin |
216 |
| The “Logical Sacrifice” |
219 |
| Dogmatism Christianity by Hellenism |
222 |
| Heretical Gnoses |
224 |
| Christian Reactions to the Heretical Gnoses |
225 |
| St Irenaeus |
225 |
| The Church and the Safeguard of the True Faith |
226 |
| The Recapitulation |
227 |
| The Vision of God and Life in God |
229 |
| Salvation through the Incarnation and Salvation through the Cross |
230 |
| Heretical Gnosis and Orthodox Gnosis |
234 |
| Pagan Myths and Christian Faith |
235 |
| CHAPTER X. THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUITY OF GNOSIS FROM ITS ORIGINS TO ST IRENAEUS |
237 |
| St Paul's Gnosis |
238 |
| Paulinian Gnosis and Jewish Gnosis |
239 |
| St John and Gnosis |
243 |
| The Originality of Christian Gnosis |
244 |
| The Apostolic Fathers |
245 |
| St Clement of Rome |
247 |
| The Epistle of Barnabas |
249 |
| The Traditional Character of Gnosis in St Justin |
252 |
| St Irenaeus and the Synthesis of Orthodox Gnosis |
252 |
| CHAPTER XI. THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA: CLEMENT |
256 |
| What was the "School of Alexandria"? |
256 |
| The Origins of Neo-Platonism |
259 |
| Hermetism |
261 |
| Pantaenus |
263 |
| Clement |
263 |
| The Ideal of the Gnostic |
265 |
| Gnosis and Philosophy |
269 |
| Gnosis and Mysticism |
271 |
| Apatheia |
273 |
| CHAPTER XII. THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA (CONCLUSION): ORIGEN |
276 |
| Ammonius Saccas |
276 |
| Origen |
279 |
| The Bible and the Cross |
281 |
| Origen's Allegory and Gnosis |
283 |
| Origen's Asceticism |
287 |
| The Warfare against the Demons |
289 |
| The Mysticism of the Logos |
292 |
| The Mysticism of the Logos and Mysticism of God |
298 |
| Plotinus |
300 |
| CHAPTER XIII. THE ORIGINS OF MONASTICISM |
303 |
| The Pre-history of Monasticism |
303 |
| Martyrdom and Anchoritism |
305 |
| The Oldest monastic texts |
306 |
| The Life of St. Antony |
308 |
| The Desert and the Devil |
311 |
| Monasticism and Christianity |
314 |
| Return to the World |
317 |
| Pachomius and Cenobitism |
321 |
| Eremitism and Cenobitism |
325 |
| The First Expansion of Monasticism |
328 |
| CHAPTER XIV. ERUDITE MONASTICISM: THE CAPPADOCIANS |
331 |
| The Cappadocians |
335 |
| Basil and Monasticism |
341 |
| The Personality of Gregory Nazianzen |
343 |
| Marriage and Virginity |
345 |
| The Mysticism of Gregory Nazianzen |
347 |
| Gregory of Nyssa |
351 |
| The Frame of St Gregory's Thought |
353 |
| The Biblical Commentaries |
355 |
| The Monastic Writings |
356 |
| The Final Synthesis of the De Instituto |
358 |
| Theognosia |
362 |
| Presence of God Search for God |
365 |
| Love and Union |
367 |
| CHAPTER XV. ERUDITE MONASTICISM (CONCLUSION): PSEUDO-MACARIUS EVAGRIUS PONTICUS |
369 |
| The Problem of "Macarius" |
370 |
| The Great Letter |
371 |
| The Homilies of "Macarius" and The Thought of Gregory of Nyssa |
373 |
| Mysticism of Light |
374 |
| Constant Prayer |
376 |
| The Co-Existence of Sin and Grace |
379 |
| Evagrius Ponticus |
380 |
| Evagrius' Cosmology and Anthropology |
383 |
| Stages of Spiritual Progress |
384 |
| Virtues and Vices |
384 |
| Apatheia according to Evagrius |
386 |
| Gnosis according to Evagrius |
387 |
| Conclusions |
393 |
| CHAPTER XVI. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS AND THE MYSTICISM OF THE FATHERS |
395 |
| The Historic and Literary Problem of the Areopagite Writings |
395 |
| Cosmos and Hierarchy |
401 |
| The Origin and the Nature of Mysticism in "Dionysius" |
405 |
| Union and Divinization |
416 |
| Conclusions |
420 |
| CHAPTER XVII. DEVELOPMENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS |
422 |
| Monastic Collections and Histories |
423 |
| Letters and Conferences |
425 |
| The Syrian School: Isaac of Nineveh |
427 |
| Messalianism |
427 |
| Diadochus of Photike |
430 |
| Origenism |
432 |
| Maximus the Confessor |
433 |
| The School of Antioch |
436 |
| St John Chrysostom |
440 |
| Chrysostom as Priest |
444 |
| Pelagianism and Naturalist Reactions |
449 |
| Synesius of Cyrene |
450 |
| Tertullian and the Rejection of the World |
452 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. THE LATIN FATHERS: FROM ST AMBROSE AND ST JEROME TO ST AUGUSTINE |
455 |
| St Ambrose |
456 |
| The Meaning of Virginity |
457 |
| St Jerome |
459 |
| St Jerome and Asceticism |
460 |
| St Jerome and the Bible |
463 |
| St Augustine |
467 |
| Christianity and Neo-Platonism in Augustine's Conversion |
468 |
| The Vision at Ostia |
471 |
| The De Quantitate Animae and the True Sense of Augustinian Mysticism |
473 |
| Augustine's Mysticism in the Enarrationes |
475 |
| Mysticism and Grace of Charity |
482 |
| Charity and the Life of Christ Communicated in the Church |
488 |
| Charity and the Trinity |
490 |
| Augustinian Wisdom |
491 |
| Conclusions on St Augustine |
493 |
| CHAPTER XIX. LATIN MONASTICISM FROM ST AUGUSTINE TO ST GREGORY |
495 |
| The Monastic Writings of St Augustine |
495 |
| St Augustine's Monasticism |
497 |
| Ancient Monasticism Passes into the West |
499 |
| Cassian |
500 |
| Reading and Contemplation |
506 |
| Western Monasticism before St Benedict |
511 |
| St Benedict and his Rule |
512 |
| The St Benedict of the Dialogues |
513 |
| The Benedictine Rule |
514 |
| The Rule of St Benedict and the Rule of the Master |
519 |
| GENERAL CONCLUSION ON THE PRIMITIVE AND PATRISTIC PERIOD: LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD |
523 |
| Monasticism and the Church: the Spirituality of the Liturgies and the Catecheses |
523 |
| St Cyril of Alexandria |
527 |
| St Leo the Great |
529 |
| INDEX OF SUBJECTS |
531 |
| BIBLICAL INDEX |
534 |
| INDEX OF ANCIENT AUTHORS |
537 |
| INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS |
539 |