§ 28. EBIONISM AND EBIONITIC GNOSTICISM. (1) Nazareans and Ebionites. (2) The Elkesaites. (3) The Pseudo-Clementine Series of Writings. a. Homiliæ XX Clementis. b. Recognitiones Clementis. c. Epitomæ. (4) The Pseudo-Clementine Doctrinal System.
§ 29. MANICHÆISM. (1) The Founder. (2) The System. (3) Constitution, Worship, and Missionarizing.
III. THE DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT AND APOLOGETICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH.
§ 30. THE THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF THE POST-APOSTOLIC AGE, A.D. 70-170. (1) The Beginnings of Patristic Literature. (2) The Theology of the Post-Apostolic Age. (3) The so-called Apostolic Fathers. a. Clement of Rome. (4) b. Barnabas. c. Pastor Hermas. (5) d. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch. (6) e. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. f. Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis. g. Epistle to Diognetus. (7) The Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. (8) The Writings of the Earliest Christian Apologists. (9) Extant Writings of Apologists of the Post-Apostolic Age. a. Justin Martyr. (10) b. Tatian. c. Athenagoras. d. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch. e. Hermias.
§ 31. THE THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF THE OLD CATHOLIC AGE, A.D. 170-323. (1) The Theological Schools and Tendencies.
(2) Church Teachers of the Asiatic Type. a. Irenæus. (3) b. Hippolytus. (4) The Alexandrian Church Teachers. a. Pantænus. b. Titus Flavius Clement. (5) c. Origen. (6) d. Dionysius of Alexandria. e. Gregory Thaumaturgus. f. Pamphilus. (7) Greek-speaking Church Teachers in other Quarters. a. Hegesippus. b. Caius of Rome. (8) c. Sextus Julius Africanus. (9) d. Methodius. e. Lucian of Samosata.
(10) The Church Teachers of North Africa. Tertullian. (11) Cyprian. (12) Various Ecclesiastical Writers using the Latin Tongue. a. Minucius Felix. b. Commodus. c. Novatian. d. Arnobius. e. Victorinus of Pettau. f. Lucius Lactantius.
§ 32. THE APOCRYPHAL AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHICAL LITERATURE. (1) Professedly Old Heathen Prophecies. (2) Old Testament Pseudepigraphs. a. Book of Enoch. b. Assumptio Mosis. c. Fourth Book of Ezra. d. Book of Jubilees. (3) Pseudepigraphs of Christian Origin. a. History of Assenath. b. The Testaments of the XII. Patriarchs. c. _Ascensio Isaiæ_ and _Visio Isaiæ_. d. _Spelunca thesaurorum._ (4) New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphs. I. Apocryphal Gospels. (5) II. Apocryphal Histories and Legends of the Apostles. (6) ---- Apocryphal Monographs. (7) III. Apostolic Epistles. IV. Apocryphal Apocalypses. V. Apostolical Constitutions. (8) The Acts of the Martyrs.