Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church.

Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Fathers of the Church -- 1. Paradosis and Traditio: A Word Study -- 2. From the κανὼν τῆς  ληθείας to the κανὼν τῶν γραφῶν: The Rule of Faith and the New Testament Canon -- 3. The Bishop in the Mirror: Scripture and Irenaeus's Self-Understanding in Adversus haereses Book One -- 4. Prosper, Cassian, and Vincent: The Rule of Faith in the Augustinian Controversy -- Part Two: Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Arian Controversy -- 5. Joseph Lienhard, Marcellus of Ancyra, and Marcellus's Rule of Faith -- 6. Apollinarius and the First Nicene Generation -- 7. The Enigma of Meletius of Antioch -- Part Three: Augustine, Tradition, and the Rule of Faith -- 8. Augustine's Appeal to Tradition -- 9. Augustine, Paul, and the Ueritas Catholica -- 10. How Christ Saves: Augustine's Multiple Explanations -- 11. Augustine Laughed: De beata vita -- 12. Unum Deum . . . Mundi Conditorem: Implications of the Rule of Faith in Augustine's Understanding of Time and History -- Part Four: The Traditio Patrum -- 13. Traditio Patrum in Early Christian Ireland -- 14. Interpretation, Assimilation, Appropriation: Recent Commentators on Augustine and His Tradition -- 15. (Re)defining the Boundaries of Orthodoxy: The Rule of Faith and the Twentieth-Century Rehabilitation of Origen -- 16. Erasmus's Edition of Origen -- Joseph T. Lienhard Significant Dates and Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.