Chapter XIII: The Religious Period, 273

THE TWO CAUSES OF THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS FEELING, 273
THE NEED OF SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY, 275
THE RISE OF THE CONCEPTION OF SPIRITUALITY, 277
THE REVIVAL OF PLATONISM, 279
THE DIVISIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERIOD, 280
THE HELLENIC RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES, 282
THE INTRODUCTORY PERIOD OF HELLENIC RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY.
THE TURNING TO THE PAST FOR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY, 282
1. The Greek-Jewish Philosophy of Philo, 282
2. Neo-Pythagoreanism, 285
THE DEVELOPMENT PERIOD OF HELLENIC RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY.
THE TURNING TO THE PRESENT FOR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY.
PLATONISM AND NEO-PLATONISM, 287
NEO-PLATONISM AND THE TWO INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHIES, 288
NEO-PLATONISM AND CHRISTIANITY, 288
THE PERIODS OF NEO-PLATONISM, 290
THE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL. THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF
NEO-PLATONISM. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF PLOTINUS, 290
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE TEACHING OF PLOTINUS, 291
THE MYSTIC GOD, 292
1. The Supra-Consciousness of God, 292
2. The Conception of Dynamic Pantheism, 293
THE TWO PROBLEMS OF PLOTINUS, 293
THE WORLD OF EMANATIONS.――THE METAPHYSICAL PROBLEM OF
PLOTINUS, 294
THE SPIRIT, 294
THE SOUL, 295
MATTER, 295
THE RETURN OF THE SOUL TO GOD.――THE ETHICAL PROBLEM OF
PLOTINUS, 297
THE SYRIAN SCHOOL.――THE SYSTEMATIZING OF
POLYTHEISMS.――JAMBLICHUS, 298
THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL.――RECAPITULATION.――PROCLUS, 299

CHAPTER XIV. PATRISTICS.――THE HELLENIZING OF THE GOSPEL, 302
THE EARLY SITUATION OF CHRISTIANITY, 302
THE PHILOSOPHIES INFLUENCING CHRISTIAN THOUGHT, 305
THE PERIODS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY, 306
THE APOLOGISTS, 307
THE GNOSTICS, 310
THE REACTION AGAINST GNOSTICISM.――THE OLD CATHOLIC
THEOLOGIANS, 312
ORIGEN AND THE SCHOOL OF CATECHISTS, 314

BOOK II. THE MIDDLE AGES
(476–1453)

CHAPTER XV. CHARACTERISTICS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MIDDLE
AGES, 319
COMPARISON OF THE HELLENIC-ROMAN PERIOD AND THE MIDDLE
AGES, 319
THE MEDIÆVAL MAN, 320
HOW THE UNIVERSE APPEARED TO THE MEDIÆVAL MAN, 322
MAPS OF THE PTOLEMAIC COSMOGRAPHY, 323, 325
THE MEDIÆVAL MAN AT SCHOOL, 325
A MEDIÆVAL LIBRARY, 326
1. Books most commonly read, 327
2. Books that the scholars might use, 327
3. The Books most influential philosophically upon the
time, 328
THE THREE PERIODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 328
SUMMARY OF THE POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL WORLDS OF THE
MEDIÆVAL MAN, 330

CHAPTER XVI. THE EARLY PERIOD OF THE MIDDLE AGES, 334
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE EARLY PERIOD, 334
AN EARLY MEDIÆVAL GEOGRAPHICAL MAP, 335
THE HISTORICAL POSITION OF AUGUSTINE, 335
THE SECULAR SCIENCE, 339
THE LIFE OF AUGUSTINE, 339
THE TWO ELEMENTS IN AUGUSTINE’S TEACHING, 340
THE NEO-PLATONIC ELEMENT: THE INNER CERTAINTIES OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, 341
THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO AUGUSTINE, 345
THE DARK AGES, 347
THE REVIVAL OF CHARLEMAGNE, 349
JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA: LIFE AND TEACHING, 350
THE GREEK PRINCIPLE WHICH ERIGENA FORMULATED FOR THE
MIDDLE AGES, 352
THE LAST CENTURY OF THE EARLY PERIOD, 353

CHAPTER XVII. THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, 354
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, 354
WHAT IS SCHOLASTICISM? 355
ANSELM: LIFE AND POSITION IN MEDIÆVAL PHILOSOPHY, 359
ANSELM’S ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, 361
ROSCELLINUS: LIFE AND TEACHING, 361
STORM AND STRESS, 362
THE LIFE OF ABELARD, 363
ABELARD’S CONCEPTUALISM. UNIVERSALS EXIST IN THE
PARTICULARS, 364
ABELARD’S RATIONALISM.――THE RELATION BETWEEN REASON AND
DOGMA, 365