antignostic

The confidence with which he represented his antignostic interpretation of the creed as that of the Church of the Apostles was no doubt owing to this sure historical recollection.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Even at that time, moreover, he had ground enough for a more reserved attitude towards Rome, though in the antignostic struggle he could not dispense with the tradition of the

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

The unavoidable necessity of excluding orthodox Christians from the ecclesiastical communion, or, in other words, the fact that such orthodox Christians had separated themselves from the majority guided by the bishops, led to the setting up of a new theory of the Church, which therefore resulted from stress of circumstances just as much as the antignostic conception of the matter held by Irenæus.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

But it sums up in classic fashion the doctrines of Western orthodoxy, the main features of which were sketched by Tertullian in his antignostic writings and the work against Praxeas.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Hence the result of their labours, so far as this was accepted by the Western Church of the third century, does not appear in the adoption of a systematic philosophical dogmatic, but in theological fragments, namely, the rule of faith fixed and interpreted in an antignostic sense [650].

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Christianity; the antignostic Fathers had confused the Church's faith and the science that treats of it.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Alongside of the antignostic rule of faith as the "doctrine" we find the casuistic system of morality and penance (the Church "disciplina") with its media of almsgiving, fasting, and prayer; see Cypr, de op et eleemos., but before that Hippol.,

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890