HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
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THIRD PERIOD
THE CHURCH IN UNION WITH THE
ROMAN EMPIRE
FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO
GREGORY THE GREAT. a.d. 311-590.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 1. Introduction
and General View.
CHAPTER I.
DOWNFALL OF HEATHENISM AND
VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY N THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 2. Constantine The
Great. a.d. 306-337.
§ 3. The Sons of
Constantine. a.d. 337-361.
§ 4. Julian the
Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism. a.d.
361-363.
§ 5. From Jovian to
Theodosius. a.d. 363-392.
§ 6. Theodosius the
Great and his Successors. a.d.
392-550.
§ 7. The Downfall of
Heathenism.
CHAPTER II. THE LITERARY TRIUMPH
OF CHRISTIANITY OVER GREEK AND ROMAN HEATHENISM.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 8. Heathen
Polemics. New Objections.
§ 9. Julian’s Attack
upon Christianity.
§ 10. The Heathen
Apologetic Literature.
§ 11. Christian
Apologists and Polemics.
§ 12. Augustine’s
City of God. Salvianus.
CHAPTER III.
ALLIANCE OF CHURCH AND STATE AND
ITS INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC MORALS AND RELIGION.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 13. The New
Position of the, Church in the Empire.
§ 14. Rights and
Privileges of the Church. Secular Advantages.
§ 15. Support of the
Clergy.
§ 16. Episcopal
Jurisdiction and Intercession.
§ 17. Legal Sanction
of Sunday.
§ 18. Influence of
Christianity on Civil Legislation. The Justinian Code.
§ 19. Elevation of
Woman and the Family.
§ 20. Social
Reforms. The Institution of Slavery.
§ 21. Abolition of
Gladiatorial Shows.
§ 22. Evils of the
Union of Church and State. Secularization of the Church.
§ 23. Worldliness
and Extravagance.
§ 24. Byzantine Court
Christianity.
§ 25. Intrusion of
Politics into Religion.
§ 26. The
Emperor-Papacy and the Hierarchy.
§ 27. Restriction of
Religious Freedom, and Beginnings of Persecution of Heretics.
CHAPTER IV.
MONASTICISM.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 28. Origin of
Christian Monasticism. Comparison with other forms of Asceticism.
§ 29. Development of
Monasticism.
§ 30. Nature and Aim
of Monasticism.
§ 31. Monasticism
and the Bible.
§ 32. Lights and
Shades of Monastic Life.
§ 33. Position of
Monks in the Church.
§ 34. Influence and
Effect of Monasticism.
§ 35. Paul of Thebes
and St. Anthony.
§ 36. Spread of
Anchoretism. Hilarion.
§ 37. St. Symeon and
the Pillar Saints.
§ 38. Pachomius and
the Cloister life.
§ 39. Fanatical and
Heretical Monastic Societies in The East.
§ 40. Monasticism in
the West. Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Martin of Tours.
§ 41. St. Jerome as
a Monk.
§ 42. St. Paula.
§ 43. Benedict of
Nursia.
§ 44. The Rule of
St. Benedict.
§ 45. The Benedictines.
Cassiodorus.
§ 46. Opposition to
Monasticism. Jovinian.
§ 47. Helvidius,
Vigilantius, and Aerius.
CHAPTER V.
THE HIERARCHY AND POLITY OF THE
CHURCH.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 48. Schools of the
Clergy.
§ 49. Clergy and
Laity. Elections.
§ 50. Marriage and
Celibacy of the Clergy.
§ 51. Moral
Character of the Clergy in general.
§ 52. The Lower
Clergy.
§ 53. The Bishops.
§ 54. Organization
of the Hierarchy: Country Bishop, City Bishops, and Metropolitans.
§ 55. The
Patriarchs.
§ 56. Synodical
Legislation on the Patriarchal Power and Jurisdiction.
§ 57. The Rival
Patriarchs of Old and New Rome.
§ 58. The Latin
Patriarch.
§ 59. Conflicts and
Conquests of the Latin Patriarchate.
§ 60. The Papacy.
§ 61. Opinions of
the Fathers.
§ 62. The Decrees of
Councils on the Papal Authority.
§ 63. Leo the Great.
a.d. 440-461.
§ 64. The Papacy
from Leo I to Gregory I. a.d.
461-590.
§ 65. The Synodical
System. The Ecumenical Councils.
§ 66. List of the
Ecumenical Councils of the Ancient Church,
§ 67. Books of
Ecclesiastical Law.
CHAPTER VI.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND SCHISMS.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 68. Decline of
Discipline.
§ 69. The Donatist
Schism. External History.
§ 70. Augustine and
the Donatists. Their Persecution and Extinction.
§ 71. Internal
History of the Donatist Schism. Dogma of the Church.
§ 72. The Roman
Schism of Damasus and Ursinus.
§ 73. The Meletian
Schism at Antioch.
CHAPTER VII.
PUBLIC WORSHIP AND RELIGIOUS
CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 74. The Revolution
in Cultus.
§ 75. The Civil and
Religious Sunday.
§ 76. The Church
Year.
§ 77. The Christmas
Cycle.
§ 78. The Easter
Cycle.
§ 79. The Time of
the Easter Festival.
§ 80. The Cycle of
Pentecost.
§ 81. The Exaltation
of the Virgin Mariology.
§ 82. Mariolatry.
§ 83. The Festivals
of Mary.
§ 84. The Worship of
Martyrs and Saints.
§ 85. Festivals of
the Saints.
§ 86. The Christian
Calendar. The Legends of the Saints. The Acta Sanctorum.
§ 87. Worship of
Relics. Dogma of the Resurrection. Miracles of Relics.
§ 88. Observations
on the Miracles of the Nicene Age.
§ 89. Processions
and Pilgrimages.
§ 90. Public Worship
of the Lord’s Day. Scripture-Reading and Preaching.
§ 91. The Sacraments
in General.
§ 92. Baptism.
§ 93. Confirmation.
§ 94. Ordination.
§ 95. The Sacrament
of the Eucharist.
§ 96. The Sacrifice
of the Eucharist.
§ 97. The
Celebration o f the Eucharist.
§ 98. The Liturgies.
Their Origin and Contents.
§ 99. The Oriental
Liturgies.
§ 100. The
Occidental Liturgies.
§ 101. Liturgical
Vestments.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHRISTIAN ART.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 102. Religion and
Art.
§ 103. Church
Architecture.
§ 104. The
Consecration of Churches.
§ 105. Interior
Arrangement of Churches.
§ 106. Architectural
Style. The Basilicas.
§ 107. The Byzantine
Style.
§ 108. Baptisteries.
Grave-Chapels, and Crypts.
§ 109. Crosses and
Crucifixes.
§ 110. Images of
Christ.
§ 111. Images of
Madonna and Saints.
§ 112. Consecrated
Gifts.
§ 113. Church Poetry
and Music.
§ 114. The Poetry of
the Oriental Church.
§ 115. The Latin
Hymn.
§ 116. The Latin
Poets and Hymns.
CHAPTER IX.
THEOLOGY. DEVELOPMENT OF THE
ECUMENICAL ORTHODOXY.
Sources and
Literature,
§ 117. General
Observations. Doctrinal Importance of the Period. Influence of the Ancient
Philosophy.
§ 118. Sources of
Theology. Scripture and Tradition.
I. - The Trinitarian
Controversies.
General Literature
of the Arian Controversy.
§ 119. The Arian
Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
§ 120. The Council
of Nicaea, 325.
§ 121. The Arian and
Semi-Arian Reaction, a.d.
325-361.
§ 122. The Final
Victory of Orthodoxy, and the Council of Constantinople, 381.
§ 123. The
Theological Principles involved: Import of the Controversy.
§ 124. Arianism.
§ 125.
Semi-Arianism.
§ 126. Revived
Sabellianism. Marcellus and Photinus.
§ 127. The Nicene
Doctrine of the Consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
§ 128. The Doctrine
of the Holy Spirit.
§ 129. The Nicene
and Constantinopolitan Creed.
§ 130. The Nicene,
Doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinitarian Terminology.
§ 131. The
Post-Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine of Augustine.
§ 132. The
Athanasian Creed.
II. - The Origenistic
Controversies.
§133. The Orgenistic
Controversy in Palestine. Epiphanius, Rufinus, and Jerome, a.d. 394-399.
§ 134. The
Origenistic Controversy in Egypt and Constantinople. Theophilus and Chrysostom a.d. 399-407.
III. - The Christological
Controversies.
§ 135. General View.
Alexandrian and Antiochian Schools.
§ 136. The
Apollinarian Heresy, a.d.
362-381.
§ 137. The Nestorian
Controversy, a.d. 428-431.
§ 138. The
Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, a.d.
431. The Compromise.
§ 139. The
Nestorians.
§ 140. The Eutychian
Controversy. The Council of Robbers, a.d.
449.
§ 141. The
Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, a.d.
451.
§ 142. The Orthodox
Christology_Analysis and Criticism.
§ 143. The
Monophysite Controversies.
§ 144. The Three,
Chapters, and the Fifth Ecumenical Council, a.d.
553.
§ 145. The
Monophysite Sects: Jacobites, Copts, Abyssinians, Armenians, Maronites.
IV. - The Anthropological
Controversies.
Works on the
Pelagian Controversy in General.
§ 146. Character of
the Pelagian Controversy.
§ 147. External
History of the Pelagian Controversy, a.d.
411-431.
§ 148. The Pelagian
Controversy in Palestine.
§ 149. Position of
the Roman Church. Condemnation of Pelagianism.
§ 150. The Pelagian
System: Primitive State and Freedom of Man; the Fall.
§ 151. The Pelagian
System Continued: Doctrine, of Human Ability and Divine Grace.
§ 152. The
Augustinian System: The Primitive State of Man, and Free Will.
§ 153. The
Augustinian System: The Fall and its Consequences.
§ 154. The
Augustinian System: Original Sin, and the Origin of the Human Soul.
§ 155. Arguments for
the Doctrine of Original Sin and Hereditary Guilt.
§ 156. Answers to
Pelagian Objections.
§ 157. Augustine’s
Doctrine of Redeeming Grace.
§ 158. The Doctrine
of Predestination.
§ 159.
Semi-Pelagianism.
§ 160. Victory of
Semi-Augustinianism. Council of Orange, a.d.
529.
CHAPTER X.
CHURCH FATHERS, AND THEOLOGICAL
LITERATURE.
I._The Greek Fathers.
§ 161. Eusebius of
Caesarea.
§ 162. The Church
Historians after Eusebius.
§ 163. Athanasius
the Great.
§ 164. Basil the
Great.
§ 165. Gregory of
Nyssa.
§ 166. Gregory
Nazianzen.
§ 167. Didymus of
Alexandria.
§ 168. Cyril of
Jerusalem.
§ 169. Epiphanius.
§ 170. John
Chrysostom.
§ 171. Cyril of
Alexandria.
§ 172. Ephraem the
Syrian.
II._The Latin Fathers.
§ 173. Lactantius.
§ 174. Hilary of
Poitiers.
§ 175. Ambrose.
§ 176. Jerome as a
Divine and Scholar.
§ 177. The Works of
Jerome.
§ 178. Augustine.
§ 179. The Works of
Augustine.
§ 180. The Influence
of Augustine upon Posterity and his Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism.
Alphabetical Index to the
Second and Third Volumes,
Appendix to the Revised Edition
of 1884. Addenda et Corrigenda.
Alphabetical Index to the Third
Volume.
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