Those which have
been in constant use in the preparation of this chapter have been an
excellent article by Th. Förster in the Theologische Studien
und Kritiken for 1888, p. 645 ff., and two full and valuable papers
by Dr. Baltzer on the Theologie and Christologie of
Hilary in the Programm of the Rottweil Gymnasium for 1879 and
1889 respectively. I have unfortunately not had access to
Wirthmüller’s work, Die Lehre d. hl. Hil.
über die Selbstentäusserung Christi, but the
citations in Baltzer and Schwane give some clue to its contents.
The Introduction to the Benedictine edition is useful, though its value
is lessened by an evident desire to make Hilary conform to the accepted
opinions of a later age. Dorner’s great work on the
Doctrine of the Person of Christ, in the English translation,
with the Dogmengeschichte of Schwane (ed. 2, 1895) and that of
Harnack (ed. 3, 1894) have also been constantly and profitably
consulted. Indebtedness to other works is from time to time
acknowledged in the notes.