TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirk,Kenneth E.
TI  - The vision of God: the Christian doctrine of the summum bonum 
T2  - The Library of religion and culture
AV  - BT848 .K57 1966
U1  - ARCH YNDC 231 S642V  
PY  - 1966///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - Beatific vision
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - History
KW  - Worship
KW  - Asceticism
N1  - Originally published in 1931; Includes bibliographical references; The vision of God and the problem of discipline. The vision of God ; The problem of discipline ; The vision of God : Jewish anticipations ; The vision of God : pagan anticipations ; Philo and the Hermetica -- The New Testament. Rigorism and eschatology in the teaching of Jesus ; New Testament variations ; The origin of New Testament rigorism ; The vision of God in the New Testament -- Formalism. The beginnings of codification ; Codification in the New Testament ; The dangers of formalism ; The motive of reward in the Gospels ; Discipline in the New Testament ; Discipline at Rome -- Rigorism. The beginnings of monasticism ; Monasticism and the vision of God ; The Gnostics ; Marcion, Tertullian and Montanus ; Rigorist discipline ; The sinlessness of the Christian -- The reply to rigorism : discipline. Rigorists and humanists ; The two lives ; The reform of monasticism ; The reform of penance ; Penance in the Middle Ages -- The reply to rigorism : doctrine. Naturalism and Christianity ; Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria ; S. Augustine ; S. Bernard of Clairvaux -- Confusion and order. The twelfth century ; The school of St. Victor ; S. Thomas Aquinas ; S. Ignatius of Loyola ; S. Francis de Sales -- Law and promise. The reversal of tradition ; 'Worship' and 'service' ; Disinterestedness and pure love
ER  -