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New Church History Articles
- The Heathen Apologetic Literature
- Julian’s Attack upon Christianity
- Heathen Polemics. New Objections
- The Downfall of Heathenism
- Theodosius the Great and his Successors (A.D. 392–550)
- From Jovian to Theodosius (A.D. 363–392)
- Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism (A.D. 361–363)
- The Sons of Constantine (A.D. 337–361)
- Constantine The Great (A.D. 306–337)
- THIRD PERIOD : FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT (a. d. 311–590)
Category Archives: History of the Christian Church
The Heathen Apologetic Literature
After the death of Julian most of the heathen writers, especially the ablest and most estimable, confined themselves to the defence of their religion, and thus became, by reason of their position, advocates of toleration; and, of course, of toleration … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Aurelius Symmachus, Christianity, Constantinople, Nicomedia, Themistius, Theodosius I
Julian’s Attack upon Christianity
The last direct and systematic attack upon the Christian religion proceeded from the emperor Julian. In his winter evenings at Antioch in 363, to account to the whole world for his apostasy, he wrote a work against the Christians, which … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Apostate Julian, Christianity, Critias, Cyril of Alexandria, Eunapius, Jesus Christ, Porphyry, Zosimus
Heathen Polemics. New Objections
The internal conflict between heathenism and Christianity presents the same spectacle of dissolution on the one hand and conscious power on the other. And here the Nicene age reaped the fruit of the earlier apologists, who ably and fearlessly defended … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Christianity, Neo-Platonic
The Downfall of Heathenism
The final dissolution of heathenism in the eastern empire may be dated from the middle of the fifth century. In the year 435 Theodosius II. commanded the temples to be destroyed or turned into churches. There still appear some heathens … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: heathenism
Theodosius the Great and his Successors (A.D. 392–550)
The final suppression of heathenism is usually, though not quite justly, ascribed to the emperor Theodosius I., who, on this account, as well as for his victories over the Goths, his wise legislation, and other services to the empire, bears … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Theodosius the Great
From Jovian to Theodosius (A.D. 363–392)
From this time heathenism approached, with slow but steady step, its inevitable dissolution, until it found an inglorious grave amid the storms of the great migration and the ruins of the empire of the Caesars, and in its death proclaimed … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Ambrose, Arian, Jovian, Theodosius, Valentinian I, Valentinian II
Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism (A.D. 361–363)
Notwithstanding this great conversion of the government and of public sentiment, the pagan religion still had many adherents, and retained an important influence through habit and superstition over the rude peasantry, and through literature and learned schools of philosophy and … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Julian the Apostate
