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New Church History Articles
- Helvidius, Vigilantius, and Aerius
- Opposition to Monasticism. Jovinian
- The Benedictines. Cassiodorus
- The Rule of St. Benedict
- Benedict of Nursia
- St. Paula
- St. Jerome as a Monk
- Monasticism in the West. Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Martin of Tours
- Fanatical and Heretical Monastic Societies in The East
- Pachomius and the Cloister Life
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Social Reforms. The Institution of Slavery
4. The institution of slavery remained throughout the empire, and is recognized in the laws of Justinian as altogether legitimate. The Justinian code rests on the broad distinction of the human race into freemen and slaves. It declares, indeed, the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Aristotle, Christ, Christianity, Chrysostom, Honorius, Justinian, Roman, Salvianus, Slavery, St. Augustine
Elevation of Woman and the Family
The benign effect of Christianity on legislation in the Graeco-Roman empire is especially noticeable in the following points: 1. In the treatment of women. From the beginning, Christianity labored, primarily in the silent way of fact, for the elevation of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Anthusa, Christianity, Christians, Constantine, Monica, Nonna, Theodosius I, Theodosius II, Valentinian
Influence of Christianity on Civil Legislation. The Justinian Code
While in this way the state secured to the church the well-deserved rights of a legal corporation, the church exerted in turn a most beneficent influence on the state, liberating it by degrees from the power of heathen laws and … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Berytus, Christendom, Christian, Constantine, Constantinople, Rome, Tribonianus
Legal Sanction of Sunday
7. The civil sanction of the observance of Sunday and other festivals of the church. The state, indeed, should not and cannot enforce this observance upon any one, but may undoubtedly and should prohibit the public disturbance and profanation of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Apollo, Christ, Christians, Constantine, Sunday
Episcopal Jurisdiction and Intercession
4. We proceed to the legal validity, of the episcopal jurisdiction, which likewise dates from the time of Constantine. After the manner of the Jewish synagogues, and according to the exhortation of St. Paul, the Christians were accustomed from the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustine, Chrysostom, Constantine, St. Paul, Theodosius
Support of the Clergy
3. The better support of the clergy was another advantage connected with the new position of Christianity in the empire. Hitherto the clergy had been entirely dependent on the voluntary contributions of the Christians, and the Christians were for the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustine, Carthage, Constantinople, Gregory Nazianzen, Jerome, Pope Damasus, St. Jerome
Rights and Privileges of the Church. Secular Advantages
The conversion of Constantine and the gradual establishment of Christianity as the religion of the state had first of all the important effect of giving the church not only the usual rights of a legal corporation, which she possesses also … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustine, Chrysostom, Constantine
