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Literature on Church History, 1914–1920. I. Early Church History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Gustav Krüger
Affiliation:
Professor of Church History in Giessen, Germany

Extract

In the preparation of the following survey two methods were possible. I might select for fuller notice certain of the most important productions and by means of them illustrate the progress in this branch of historical science during the period of the war, or I might endeavor to give as complete an account of the literature as possible, including notices of less significant but nevertheless useful publications. I decided upon the second course, partly because the mass of production seemed to me too large and varied to be satisfactorily exhibited by the more or less arbitrary selection of a few works, partly because it often happens that a seemingly unimportant note may be of worth to some scholar who happens to be pursuing research in that particular field—something which in the many years during which I edited the Theologische Jahresbericht I have often found true in my own experience and that of others. Unfortunately the Jahresbericht, which seemed to us indispensable, as well as the Theologische Rundschau, edited by Bousset, whose untimely death we mourn, have both succumbed to the unfavorable conditions of the times. All the more necessary does it seem to create at least a partial substitute for them, and I embraced the opportunity offered me by the editors of this Review the more gladly because in my own country it will for the present be quite impossible to publish such a survey.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1921

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References

1 For a comprehensive survey of important publications on Antenicene church history, see von Soden, Hans, Die Erforschung der vornicänischen Kirchengeschichte seit 1914, in ZKG 39, 1921, 140166Google Scholar.

2 On Acontius see now Sortais, Gaston, S. J., , La philosophie moderne depuis Bacon jusqu'a Leibniz. Tome 1. Paris, 1920, pp. 4153.Google Scholar See also Matthaei, Adolf, Jacob Acontius, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Gedanken über Toleranz, NKZ 30, 1919, 290308.Google Scholar

* More recently the notes to vol. 6 have appeared (1921), as pp. 385–504 of that volume. They contain the references to the sources and some chronological discussions. The author died June 29, 1921.

3 It may be noted here that the third part of Schanz, comprising the literature from Minucius Felix to Lactantius, which is at present out of print, will be ready in a new edition, completely revised by the present writer, in the autumn of this year.

* Haase, see below (after Zahn).

4 Not March 15, as was stated by mistake in the January number of this Review, p. 20, n. 4.

* Hilarius, see below (after Vincentius of Lerinum).

5 In the “Festgabe” commemorating Harnack's seventieth birthday (Tübingen, Mohr, 1921) Bousset gives a brief summary (pp. 102–106) of the results of this extensive work.Google Scholar

6 This has just been published. See Heussi, Karl, Das Nilusproblem, 32 pp. Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1921. M. 6. Heussi, as might be expected, declares himself unconvinced.Google Scholar