re but few theologians in Christendom
who were acquainted with speculation, even in its fragmentary form. In
the course of the century it became a recognised part of the orthodox
faith, in so far as the Logos doctrine triumphed in the Church. This
development is the most important that took place in the third century;
for it denoted the definite transformation of the rule of faith into the
compendium of a Greek philosophical system, and it is the parallel of a
contemporaneous transformation of the Church into a holy commonwealth
(see above, chapter 3).

Footnotes:

[Footnote 656: Guericke, De schola, quae Alex. floruit catechetica 1824,
1825. Vacherot, Hist. crit. de l'ecole d'Alex., 1846-51. Reinkens, De
Clemente Alex., 1850. Redepenning, Origenes Thl. I. p. 57 ff. Laemmer,
Clem. Al. de Logo doctrina, 1855. Reuter, Clem. theolog. moralis, 1853.
Cognat, Clement d'Alex. Paris, 1859. Westcott, Origen and the beginnings
of Christian Philosophy (Contemporary Review, May 1879). Winter, Die
Ethik des Clemens von Alex., 1882. Merk, Cl. Alex, in seiner
Abhaengigkeit von der griech. Philosophie, Leipzig, 1879 (see besides
Overbeck, Theol. Lit. Ztg., 1879. No. 20 and cf. above all his
disquisitions in the treatise "Ueber. die Anfaenge der patristischen
Litteratur,") Hist. Ztschr. N.F., Vol. XII., pp. 455-472 Zahn,
Forschungen, Vol. III. Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria,
Oxford, 1886. Kremmer, De catal. heurematum, Lips. 1890. Wendland,
Quaest. Musonianae, Berol. 1886. Bratke, Die Stellung des Clem. Alex. z.
antiken Mysterienwesen (Stud. u. Krit. 1888, p. 647 ff). On Alexander of
Jerusalem see Routh, Reliq. Sacr. T. II. p. 161 sq.; on Julius Africanus
see Gelzer, Sextus Jul. Afr. I. Thl., 1880, p. 1 ff., Spitta, Der Brief
des Jul. Afr. an Aristides, Halle 1877, and my article in the
Real-Encykl. On Bardesanes see Hilgenfeld, B., der letzte Gnostiker,
1864, and Hort's article in the Dictionary of Christian Biography. On
the labours in scientific theology on the part of the so-called Alogi in
Asia Minor and of the Roman Theodotianists see Epiph. haer. 51, Euseb.,
H. E. V. 28 and my article "Monarchianismus" in the R.-Encykl. f.
protest. Theol. 2nd. ed., Vol. X., pp. 183 ff., 188 ff. On the
tendencies even of orthodox Christians to scientific theology see
Tertull., de praescr. haer. 8 ff. (cf. the first words of c. 8: "Venio
itaque ad illum articulum, quem et nostri praetendunt ad ineundam
curiositatem. Scriptum est,