Subject Index

 

Abraham, 26, 76, 142, 214, 276, 315—16

     Apocalypse of. See Apocalypse of Abraham

     covenants of, 142—44, 154, 301—2, 308, 320

Acts of Paul, 325

Adam, 26, 249, 251—53, 289

     Apocalypse of. See Apocalypse of Adam

     covenants made by, 296, 320

     soul of, 273, 274

Albinus, 246, 258

Ambrose of Milan, 223, 284, 287, 299, 326

     on Platonism, 235

Anselm of Canterbury, 326

anthropomorphism, 243—48, 261, 290—91, 328

     Anthropomorphites, 288

     condemnation of, 289—90

     rabbinic, 251

Apocalypse of Abraham, 326

Apocalypse of Adam, 165, 181—82

apostles, 25, 235

     death of, 102, 313, 358, 374

     doctrines of, 257, 341

     Epistle of, 333

     false, 7, 362

     Irenaeus on words of, 177, 183

     latter-day, 8, 94

     Nephi's vision of, 105—6

     in the parable of the wheat and the tares, 120—22, 125—28

     and philosophical theories, 206, 315

     rejection of, 26, 78

     sects as heirs to, 12

     Sylvester Smith on, 86

     teachings of, 17, 281, 331

Apostolic Constitutions, 327

Aquinas, Thomas, 62, 307, 310, 327

Arianism, 326, 328, 346—48

     defeat of, 13, 336

Aristobulus, 211

Aristotle, 212—13, 217, 318

     "School of Athens," 15

     Unmoved Mover of, 244

Arius, 327, 346—47

Ascension of Isaiah, 328

Athanasius of Alexandria, 11, 328, 347

Audius, 288

Augustine of Hippo, 14, 24, 306, 326, 327, 329, 344

     on divine embodiment, 241—93

     on parable of wheat and tares, 130

     on philosophical schools, 222—23

     on Platonism, 222—33, 235

     and Simplicianus, 223

 

baptism, 5, 78, 94, 109, 303, 304, 306, 309, 331, 333, 340

     in the Book of Mormon, 322

     early Christian, 118, 295—300, 306—8, 320—22

     infant, 6, 109, 300

     of Jesus, 181

Barnabas, 103. See also Epistle of Barnabas

Basil of Caesarea, 13, 233, 306, 329, 335, 336

     on baptism, 299

     on rite of renunciation, 296

Benedict, 329

Boman, Thorleif, 318—19

Brown, Hugh B., 41—43

Bullinger, Heinrich, 299, 320

Burckhardt, Jacob, 47—53, 57, 59—61

 

Calvin, John, 329—30

     on priesthood, 140

Calvinism, 73

Cappadocians, 13, 233. See also Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa

Carpocrates, 165, 168

Carpocratians, 183, 343

Cassian, John, 288—91

Cataphrygians, 269. See also Montanism

Catholicism, 2, 15—20, 73—74, 87, 290, 313, 314, 374, 380, 385

     Augustine on, 284—85

     B. H. Roberts on, 40, 44—45

     Council of Trent, 353

     Cyprian on, 331

     First Vatican Council, 353

     Gregory the Great, 336

     and incarnation, 159

     Martin Luther, 339

     Second Vatican Council, 354

     Tertullian on, 343

     Thomas Aquinas, 327

Celsus, 265—67, 341

Cherbonnier, Edmund La B., 243—45

Chester Beatty codex, 188

Christ. See Jesus Christ

Chrysostum, John, 338

     on baptism, 295, 299, 306—7

Clement of Alexandria, 11—12, 178, 213—16, 218—19, 234—35, 312—13, 330, 332, 338, 340, 343

     on corruption of scripture, 168, 183

     on Greek philosophy, 314—16

     on an immaterial God, 24, 256

     on parable of wheat and tares, 130

     on rewriting the Gospels, 17

Clement of Rome, 8, 183, 189—91, 330—31, 342

Columbus, 19, 36

Constantine, 34, 185, 195

     Bruce R. McConkie on, 54

     and Council of Nicea, 221, 346—48

     Eusebius's history of, 335

Council of Constantinople,

     First Council, 13, 327, 347, 348—49

     Second Council, 351

     Third Council, 351—52

Council of Nicea, 7, 13, 94, 221, 222, 235, 236, 263, 346, 349

     and Arius, 327

     and Athanasius, 328

     Second Council, 352

covenant, 295—324

     baptism as a, 296

     breaking of, 4, 5

     leading to apostasy, 84, 138, 143, 161

     inseparable from ritual service, 141

     loss of, 16, 18, 21, 108, 109, 110, 111

     and ordinances redefined, 6, 24

     people,

          Israel as, 139, 140, 153

          rejection of, 20

          scattering of, 69, 81, 95

     and priesthood service, 154, 156

     rebellion against, 5

     relationship with God, 138

     and the temple, 109, 145, 148, 151

     Zacharias on, 146

Cowdery, Oliver, 23, 78—83

     on the apostasy, 81, 88—89

     on the first vision, 75

     on priesthood restoration, 78

     on translation of the Bible, 79

Cyprian, 331

Cyril of Jerusalem, 130, 296, 299, 306, 331, 349—50

 

"Disputation over the Most Holy
Sacrament," 15

Didache, 191, 298, 327, 331

Demiurge, prophecies by, 176

 

Enlightenment, 21, 44—46

Enoch, 25—26

Book of the Secrets of, 329

Enoch Literature, 332, 342

Epistle of the Apostles, 333

Epistle of Barnabas, 111, 191—93, 332

Erasmus, Desiderius, of Rotterdam, 333—34

Erigina, John Scotus, 334

Eugnostos, 184

Eusebius, 264, 334—35

 

Gennadius, 265

Gnosticism, 159—60, 164—65, 330, 333, 335, 337, 338, 341

     Carpocratian, 343

Gospel of Philip, 335

Gospel of Thomas, 335

Gregory the Great, 336

Gregory of Nazianzus (Nanzianzus), 13, 233, 299, 335—36

Gregory of Nyssa, 13, 130, 233, 336

 

Harnack, Adolf, 241—43, 246, 310, 312, 319

Haskins, Charles Homer, 44—46, 58

Hellenism,

     apostasy, cause of, 10

     Christianity, as a branch of, 237

     hellenization,

     of Christianity, 11, 12, 233, 300, 308—16

     of Israel, 148, 247, 311

Hermas, 111, 336

Hilary of Poitiers, 335

Hippolytus, 210, 337

     on baptism, 296, 306

Hittite,

     culture, 175

     suzerainty treaties, 301, 305

Hyde, Orson, 69, 73, 85—86

 

Ignatius of Antioch, 8, 17, 166—67, 207, 298, 303—4, 337

Irenaeus of Lyons, 176, 180, 183, 188, 210, 298, 332, 337, 341

     on corruption of scripture, 169—70

Israel, House of, 1, 20, 26, 81, 82, 106, 144—45, 153—54, 315

     apostasy of, 76, 84, 110, 129, 131, 138, 190, 359

     covenant with, 4, 138—42, 301—4, 308—10, 320—21, 323

     hellenization of, 148, 311

     Judah, 147

     restoration of, 88, 147, 150—51

     scattering of, 95—99

     service of, in the temple, 145, 161

 

Jerome, 121, 130, 337, 353

Jesus Christ, 74, 120, 348—49

     atonement of, 10, 363

     coming of, 138, 146, 209

     covenant with, 149, 153, 161, 300—324

     embodiment of, 160, 241—93

     and the first vision, 42, 371

     Forty-Day Ministry of, 376—79

     as the Great High Priest, 142

     heirs of, 12

     natures of, 339, 346, 350—52

     Old Testament and, 173

     and the parable of the wheat and tares, 121

     return of, 68, 80, 92—93, 98, 145, 359

     and the temple, 151

Jeu, Two Books of, 338

John Chrysostom. See Chrysostom, John

Justin Martyr, 10, 207—8, 211, 212, 219, 298, 299, 313, 338

     on corruption of scripture, 17, 167—68, 173

     on Greek plagiarism, 212

     on idol worship, 207—8

 

Kelly, J. N. D., 243, 246, 255, 347

 

Leo the Great, 339, 350—51

Luther, Martin, 339

     against corrupt beliefs, 73

     B. H. Roberts on, 35—36

Lutheran Church,

     baptism in, 307

     Erasmus and, 333

 

Macarius, 173

Macrina, 233

Manichaeans, Augustine and the, 284, 286—88, 329

Marcion, 183

     Tertullian's claims against, 17, 171, 173—74, 272

Maximillia, 269

McConkie, Bruce R., 29—30, 53—55, 64

McLellin, William, 86

Melito of Sardis, 189, 242, 263—65, 267, 340

Messiah, 88, 105—6, 142, 146—52

false, 358

Middle Ages, 29—66, 107, 374, 385

corruption of church during, 374

Middle Platonism, 212, 246, 258, 265, 336, 338

Montanism, 269. See also New Prophecy

Tertullian and, 170, 270, 343

Montanus, 269

Moses, 4, 5, 26, 141—43, 160, 189, 211, 244, 301, 303, 308, 372

     law of, 11, 93, 126, 134, 191, 215, 235

von Mosheim, Johann L., 21, 45

 

Neoplatonism, 212, 223, 225, 334, 336

     Augustine and, 329

New Prophecy. See also Montanus, Montanism

     Tertullian's involvement with, 268—69, 276

Nibley, Hugh, 375, 379, 384

     on baptism for the dead, 109

     on the Forty-Day Ministry, 376—79

     on the primitive church, 2

Nicene Creed, 13, 221, 347, 348, 349

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 318

Novatian, 340

 

Odes of Solomon, 340

Origen of Alexandria, 11, 13, 172—73, 178, 213—18, 235, 246, 340

     on an immaterial god, 24, 241

     as witness, 256—68

Oxyrhynchus, 188

 

P52=Rylands 458, 185

paganism, 272, 282, 313, 352, 361

     Christianity reaching out to, 213, 234, 271

     influence on Christianity of, 34, 180, 361, 362

     Justin Martyr and, 338

     pagan worship, 208

     and temples, 377

     Tertullian on, 341

Paphnutius, 289, 291

Papias, 341

Paul, Acts of, 325

Paul of Tarsus, 151—54, 220, 224, 356

     accepted by Marcion, 171

     on apostasy, 7, 10, 85, 134—36, 157—58, 205, 355, 358—66

     on Christ and the temple, 151

     converts of, 206, 356

     on corruption of scripture, 17, 166

     false attributions to, 171, 174, 184

     Origen's interpretation of, 266—67

     against the Pharisees, 161

     on the resurrection, 279

Pelikan, Jaroslav, 233, 317

Pharisees, 105, 146, 148—49, 161

Phelps, W. W., 76—79, 82, 85—88, 93, 97, 163

Philo, 211, 246, 248, 255—56, 308, 314

Photinus, 290

Pistis Sophia, 341

Plato, Platonism, 12, 13, 15, 212—13, 217—18, 222—35, 243—45, 253, 256, 258—59, 262, 266, 273, 292, 309, 318. See also Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism

     Augustine and, 284

     Tertullian on, 270, 275, 281

Plotinus, 222—23, 226, 228—29.

Polycarp, 207, 337, 341

Pratt, Orson, 69, 87, 96

Pratt, Parley P., 41, 82, 87, 94—95, 97, 372

priesthood,

     apostasy as topic in manuals, 375, 384, 385

     authority, 93—95

     corruption of, 143, 148

     and Council of Nicea, 347

     of Levi, 140

     loss of, 34, 37, 41—42, 63—64, 68, 81, 84, 90, 109, 119—20, 235, 298, 375

     ordinances of, changed, 109

     purchase of, 148

     restoration of, 78, 151

     by the Messiah, 148—50

     service in, 139, 142, 145—46, 154—55, 158, 161—62

     as central to salvation, 152—53

Prisca (or Priscillia), 269

     Protestant Reformation, 30—65, 87

     B. H. Roberts on, 35, 38

     churches of and apostasy, 73

     and the Council of Trent, 353

     covenants and ordinances in, 161, 299, 306, 310

     Erasmus's role in, 333

     James E. Talmage on, 37, 38

     justification for, 2

     Martin Luther and, 339

     Middle Ages as prelude to, 54

     as prelude to the restoration, 30, 35

     redefinition of ordinances by, 6

     Renaissance setting stage for, 44, 52, 55

     Zwingli and, 344

Pseudo-Clementines, 342

Pythagoras, 213

 

Reformation. See Protestant Reformation

Renaissance, 30—65

     altering works during, 175

Roberts, B. H., 30—65, 374—75, 380, 384—85

Rufinus of Aquileia, 172—75, 342

sacramental ordinances, 6, 24, 34, 109, 158, 297, 298, 299—300, 303, 305, 322, 324, 353, 381

     baptism as, 308. See also baptism

     desecration of, 361

     eucharist, 109, 331

 

Second Council of Constantinople, 351

Secret Gospel of Mark, 342

Serapion, 289—90

Simplicianus, 223—24, 235

Smith, Hyrum, 38, 94

Smith, Joseph,

     on apostasy, 3, 9, 20, 69, 70, 72, 74, 79, 80, 84, 371

     Bible, revision of, 79

     on creeds, 18, 240, 345

     first vision of, 1, 36, 42, 67, 72, 74, 157

          account of, by Orson Hyde, 73

          caused contradiction of creeds, 240

          George A. Smith on, 373

          Oliver Cowdery on, 75

     and remission of sins, 70, 372

     on martyrs, 19

     on nature of God, 239, 240, 251, 293

     on Oliver Cowdery and revelations, 23

     on parable of wheat and tares, 112, 116, 123

     rebellion against, in Kirtland, 5, 8, 102

     on restoration, 80

     revelation from Moroni to, 75, 76

     on salvation for the dead, 19

Smith, Joseph Fielding, 30—65, 375

     on the parable of the sower, 125

sower, parable of the, 112—13, 125—26

Stoics, Stoicism, 12, 211, 215, 242—44, 271—72, 282, 286, 316

Symonds, John Addington, 48—53

 

Talmage, James E., 30—65, 67, 374, 380—81, 385

temple, 28, 144—54, 161—62, 305, 381

     covenant in, 141, 302

     destruction of, 138, 143

     heathen, 362

     Nibley on, 375—79

     ordinances, 34, 143

     rejection of, 22

     tradition in early Christianity, 305

     vessels of, destroyed by Ahaz, 138

Tertullian, 11—12, 17, 156, 170—74, 184, 188, 209—12, 295—96, 299, 306—7, 311, 325, 332, 343

     as witness, 268—83

Testament of Levi, 147—48

Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, 289—91

Trypho, 168, 338

 

Valentinus, Valentinians, 169, 171, 176, 180, 183

Varro, 222

 

Westminster Confession of Faith, 239—40

wheat and tares, parable of the, 112—32, 164, 358

Wycliffe, John, 344

 

Xenophanes, 209

 

Young, Brigham, 3, 97

 

Zacharias, 144—49

     on temple and covenant, 146

Zwingli, Ulrich, 299, 344