General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Volume 2

Couverture
Crocker & Brewster, 1849
 

Table des matières

Julian in Antioch His zeal in the Pagan worship Julian hated among
61
Advice of Gregory Nazianzen to the Christians Jovian grants universal
67
Justinian Persecution of the Pagan philosophers They fly to Persia 8384
83
The dialogue Philopatris Ridicules the Christian doctrine of
89
Different ways in which Pagans were converted Numbers of formal
97
Extension of Christianity beyond the limits of the Roman empire
103
Armenia Gregory the illuminator Miesrobs labors to promote
113
Abyssinia Meropius with Edesius and Frumentius comes to that
121
SECTION SECOND
130
Benevolent Institutions Public charities for strangers for the poor
137
Churches used as asylums The ecclesiastical usage limited by Eutro
144
Intrusion of the unworthy into spiritual offices against which decrees
151
continued to exist for a longer time 154158
154
City churches Head churches and filial churches Their relation
161
Progress of the episcopal power towards the monarchical form Prerog
169
General councils Their object Description of them by Gregory
175
Constans seeks to gain the Donatists by pecuniary presents Severe
193
History of Church Discipline 178182
205
The Meletian Schism in Egypt 217221
217
Persons convicted of gross offences excluded from the fellowship of
218
SECTION THIRD
223
Anchorites Defended by Augustine and Chrysostom against
249
Simeon the Stylite His labors Theodorets remarks concerning him
257
Different spiritual tendencies in religion in their relation to Monachism
265
CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 278343
278
Relation of Worship to Art Church buildings their ornaments
283
Times of assembling for divine worship and festivals 296316
296
Fifth ecumenical council at Constantinople A D 553 Vigilius Constitutum PAGE
298
Difference of views in respect to the feast of the passover Decrees of
302
Festival of Christmas Originated in the West about 350 generally
314
Public reading of the sacred scriptures Origin of the pericopes Ser
318
Administration of the Sacrament
325
Veneration of the saints Genuine Christian interest connected with
332
aims at a total
342
New combination of Platonic with Christian elements in the case
350
Chrysostom on the difference of the gospels
358
Character of his system
365
Critical examination of the diverging reports of Eusebius and of Atha
372
Persecutions of Arius and his party
378
Renewed charges against Athanasius and hence the synod of Tyre
384
Constantines death A D 337 Constantius an emperor who too much
386
Return of Athanasius brought about by Constans 392393
392
Banishment of Liberius of Rome and Hosius of Cordova
398
This term excluded in the symbol of faith drawn up at the council
404
Disputes concerning the propriety of this term Nestorius takes
449
Defends himself against the charge of a contentious spirit and unchari
455
Letter of Nestorius to Cœlestin in which also he makes inquiries con
461
Antianathemas of Nestorius
466
Proclus appointed patriarch on the death of Maximian in 433 although
468
Letter of Nestorius and ten other bishops to the emperor describing
473
Nestorius retires to a cloister
480
Maintains on scriptural grounds the doctrine of a progressive develop
485
Theodorets negotiations with John He endeavors to bring over
492
that there is but one Christ
498
Complaint entered before this synod against Eutyches by Eusebius
504
Party ordinance of the emperor Dioscurus president of the synod
509
Dioscurus deposed
522
Zeno again emperor Favorable to the Chalcedonian party Choice
528
Macedonius of Constantinople Philoxenus of Hierapolis and Seve
530
The Origenistic courtparty led by Domitian and Theodore Ascidas
536
Thorough and freespirited defence of the three articles by Facundus
544
Union of the Monophysites with the ruling church not yet effected
549
The personal unity and the complete human nature taken into union
550
taught that
555
Development of the doctrine concerning man previous to the time
559
Doctrine concerning Man 557661
565
The first period reaching to about 394 Certain Platonic ideas
566
Augustins scheme of doctrine distinctly struck out previous to the Pela
572
His doctrine concerning man Virtues of the pagans Denies inherited
578
Celestius visits Carthage with Pelagius in 411 Endeavors to obtain
580
The three letters of the NorthAfrican bishops A D 416 Letter
586
Difference of prevailing tendency in the doctrinal spirit of the Oriental
590
Bishops deposed for refusing to subscribe the tractoria of Zosimus
592
Gregory of Nazianz respecting the most important matters of doc
596
Leo the Great opposed to Pelagianism The Pelagian Seneca about
598
Accordingly the fundamental difference is in the different mode
605
The wavering notion of grace among the Pelagians and their three
613
John Talaya with Gennadius at Constantinople His connection with
620
Augustins prevenient efficacious and coöperating grace and his gift
622
The SemiPelagians in Gaul not satisfied with Augustins book de cor
630
Hilary and Prosper in Rome Prospers unsuccessful efforts also with
637
The author of the Predestinatus a SemiPelagian By prevenient
643
His controversy with the Predestinatian Lucidus Council of Arles
645
The Oriental Church 651661
651
Chrysostom His practical spirit His quiet development His rich
659
350
762
Pachomius founder of the cloisterlife The Coenobium of Tabennæ
766

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Page 377 - God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 272 - Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
Page 669 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 218 - Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man ? — I have planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave the increase. — So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 625 - He spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all," for His enemies who hated Him.
Page 137 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 241 - Not withstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in Heaven.
Page 323 - Save us, 0 Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen: to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Page 109 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 278 - Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God ? and ye are not your own ; for ye were bought with a price : glorify God therefore in your body.

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