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General Introduction to the Series
by Thomas A. Hollweck and Ellis Sandoz |
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| Editor's Introduction. | 49 |
| Introduction. The Spiritual Disintegration | 69 |
| a. The Problem of Apolitism | |
| b. Political and Apolitical Revolutions | |
| c. Formal Apolitism | |
| d. The Foreign Personnel of the Philosophers | |
| e. The New Category of the School | |
| f. The Cynics | |
| g. Diogenes and Plato | |
| h. Aristippus—The Political Function of Psychology | |
| i. The Garden of Epicurus | |
| Part One. From Alexander to Actium | |
| 1. Alexander | 87 |
| §1. Macedon | 87 |
| §2. Olympias—The Son of God | 89 |
| §3. The Conquest | 90 |
| §4. The Element of Imperial Rulership | 91 |
| §5. Homonoia—The Empire People | 93 |
| 2. The Early Stoa | 95 |
| §1. Equality—Origins in the Mother Cult | 95 |
| §2. Equality—The Equal Sparks of the Divine Substance | 97 |
| §3. Cosmopolis | 98 |
| §4. The Evolution of Moral Personality | 98 |
| §5. The Concept of Duty | 99 |
| §6. The Solitude of the Emperor | 99 |
| 3. Hellenistic Kingship | 101 |
| §1. Hellenism—The Problem of the "Dark Ages" | 101 |
| §2. Divine Kingship | 102 |
| §3. The Animated Law—Plato and Aristotle | 103 |
| §4. Diotogenes | 104 |
| §5. Ecphantus | 105 |
| §6. The Savior Kings | 107 |
| 4. Isreal | 108 |
| §1. The Place of Israel in History | 108 |
| §2. The Concept of the Covenant | 109 |
| §3. Primary and Secondary Democracy | 110 |
| §4. The Covenant as the Source of National Personality | 111 |
| §5. The Rise of Royalty and the Prophets | 112 |
| §6. The Law | 112 |
| §7. Rationality of Conduct—Puritanism | 113 |
| §8. The Evolution of Eschatological Sentiment | 114 |
| §9. Deutero-Isaiah—The Suffering Servant of the Lord | 116 |
| §10. The Suffering Servant and Christ | 119 |
| 5. The Destiny of Empire—Daniel and Polybius | 120 |
| §1. The Categories of Empire | 121 |
| §2. Daniel—The Sequence of Empires | 121 |
| §3. The Experience of Fortune | 122 |
| §4. Fatality and Authority of Empire | 123 |
| §5. The Idea of World History | 124 |
| §6. Cycles | 125 |
| §7. The Tripolity—The Real Causes of Roman Success | 126 |
| §8. The "Common Intelligence"—The Hieroglyphic Use of Ideas | 128 |
| 6. Cicero | 131 |
| §1. Barbarism and Renaissance | 131 |
| §2. Success | 132 |
| §3. The Heritage of Panaetius | 133 |
| §4. Rome, the Cosmopolis | 135 |
| §5. The Myth of Government | 136 |
| §6. The Myth of Law | 136 |
| §7. The End of Cicero | 138 |
| 7. The Golden Age | 139 |
| §1. Caesar | 139 |
| §2. The Monumentum Ancyranum | 141 |
| §3. The Fourth Eclogue —Antony and Cleopatra | 141 |
| §4. The Aeneid —The Victory of Troy | 143 |
| §5. The Myth of Troy with the Gauls and Franks | 145 |
| Part Two. Christianity and Rome | |
| 1. The Rise of Christianity | 149 |
| §1. The Problem—The Consciousness of Epoch | 149 |
| §2. Jesus | 151 |
| a. Insufficiency of Critical Exegesis of the Gospels | |
| b. The Nature of the Gospels—"Reflection" of Experiences and Events | |
| c. The Mana of Jesus—The Metanoia of the Believer | |
| d. Physiological and Spiritual Spheres not Separated—Thaumaturgic Kingship | |
| e. Social Characteristics of the Community—The Poor and the Rich | |
| f. A Parallel—The "Paroletarian" in the Early Writings of Marx | |
| g. Attitude toward Wealth and Property | |
| h. Eschatological Hardness of Jesus | |
| i. Misunderstanding of the Preference for the Poor | |
| j. Eschatological Hardness of the Believers—The Saints | |
| k. The Contrast between the Sermon in the Plain and the Sermon on the Mount | |
| l. The Regulative Function of the Sermon on the Mount | |
| m. Messianic Consciousness | |
| §3. The Visional Constitution of the Christian Community | 163 |
| a. Significance of the Visions of the Resurrected | |
| b. Reports and Interpretations of the Visions | |
| c. The Constitution of the Community through the Descent of the Spirit | |
| §4. The Pauline Circle | 166 |
| a. The Apocalyptic Idea of the Kingdom of Heaven | |
| b. The Epistle to the Hebrews | |
| aa. Theory of the Christian Community | |
| bb. The Constitution of the Epochs—The Idea of Divinely Planned World History | |
| c. The Compromises of Paul | |
| aa. The Compromise with History | |
| bb. The Compromise with the Weakness of Man—The Differences of gifts and the Mystical Body | |
| cc. The Law of Love | |
| dd. Eschatological Indifference to Social Problems | |
| ee. Governmental Authority Ordained by God | |
| 2. Christianity and the Nations | 173 |
| §1. The Difficulties of Paul | 173 |
| a. The Universalist Idea of Paul and the Assertion of Ethnic Differences | |
| b. The Conflict with the Jewish-Christian Community | |
| c. The Hellenistic Pneumatics | |
| §2. The National Cores | 176 |
| a. Syrian-Egyptian-Greek-Western Christianity | |
| b. The Cross-Pattern of Factors—National, Civilizational, Dogmatic | |
| c. The Proselytizing Character of the New Communities | |
| d. The Political Function of the Christological Heresies | |
| §3. Johannine Christianity | 179 |
| a. The Persian Elements in the Gospel of John | |
| b. The Gospel of John, a New Testament | |
| c. The Marcionite Movement | |
| d. Montanism—The Paraclete—The Third Realm | |
| §4. The Magian Nations | 182 |
| a. Spengler's Theory of the Magian Nations | |
| b. Jewry, Mazdaism, Manichaeism | |
| c. The Transformation of Christianity in the Classical Territory | |
| d. The Easternization of the Classical Cults—The Pagan Church—The Meaning of the Persecutions | |
| 3. The Emperor | 186 |
| §1. The Problem—The Easternization of the Empire | 186 |
| §2. The Roman Heritage | 187 |
| a. The Fiction of the Restoration of the Republic—The Name Augustus | |
| b. The Evolution of the Prineps and His Clientele | |
| c. The Oath for the Princeps | |
| d. The Name Imperator | |
| e. The Protectorate of the Princeps | |
| §3. Eastern Influences | 190 |
| a. The Divinization of the Roman and Italic Emperors | |
| b. The Late Spaniards—Marcus Aurelius and Commodus | |
| c. The Syrian Emperors—Elagabalus, Alexander Severus | |
| d. The Illyrian Emperors— Deus et Dominus | |
| 4. The Law | 195 |
| §1. The Greek Heritage | 195 |
| a. The Structure of Legal Theory | |
| b. The Three Phases of Greek Theory | |
| §2. The Roman Theory of Law | 197 |
| a. The Ciceronian Identifcation of Roman Order and World Order | |
| b. The Identification of Ius Gentium and Ius Naturale to the Time of Gaius | |
| c. The Syrian Phase: The Separation of Ius Gentium and Ius Naturale —The Gentes as the Source of Imperfection | |
| d. Seneca's Critique of Civilization | |
| e. The Relation of the Stoic Theory to the Christian | |
| §3. The Christian Theory of Law | 200 |
| a. Christological Variations | |
| b. The Reception of Stoic Theory | |
| c. The Trend toward Deification of the Positive Order | |
| d. The Trend toward Condemnation of the Postive Order | |
| e. The Compromise—The Relative Natural Law | |
| f. Imperial Authority— Lex Regia and Divine Authority | |
| 5. Saint Augustine | 206 |
| §1. The Man | 206 |
| §2. The Situation | 207 |
| a. The Emperors and the Church | |
| b. Disciplinarian Schisms in the Western Church | |
| c. The Sack of Rome | |
| §3. Symbolic History | 209 |
| a. Platonic Symbolism in the Civitas Dei | |
| b. The Construction of Epochs | |
| c. The Augustinian Construction of Sacred History | |
| d. The Senescens Saeculum | |
| §4. The Civitas Dei | 213 |
| a. The Tyconian Theory of the Invisible Church and the Corpus Diaboli | |
| b. The Augustinian Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena | |
| c.Membership in the Civitas Dei | |
| d. The Problem of Predestination | |
| §5. Theory of the Republic | 216 |
| a. The Nonspiritual Community Spheres | |
| b. The Critique of the Ciceronian Conception of the People | |
| c. The Augustinian Conception of the People | |
| d. The Reopening of Theoretical Problems | |
| §6. Profane History—Orosius | 220 |
| a. The Problem of Profane History | |
| b. Periodization of Profane History since Daniel | |
| c. Orosius' Periodization of Profane History | |
| d. The Straight-Line Pattern of History |
