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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
Category Archives: History of the Christian Church
Helvidius, Vigilantius, and Aerius
Helvidius, whether a layman or a priest at Rome it is uncertain, a pupil, according to the statement of Gennadius, of the Arian bishop Auxentius of Milan, wrote a work, before the year 383, in refutation of the perpetual virginity … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Aerius, Aerius of Sebaste, Antidicomarianites, Auxentius of Milan, Epiphanius, Helvidius, Jerome, Tertullian, Victorinus, Vigilantius
Opposition to Monasticism. Jovinian
Although monasticism was a mighty movement of the age, engaging either the cooperation or the admiration of the whole church, yet it was not exempt from opposition. And opposition sprang from very different quarters: now from zealous defenders of heathenism, … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Aerius, Augustine, Christian, Epiphanius, Helvidius, Jovinian, Monasticism, Panarion, Vigilantius
The Benedictines. Cassiodorus
Benedict had no presentiment of the vast historical importance, which this rule, originally designed simply for the cloister of Monte Cassino, was destined to attain. He probably never aspired beyond the regeneration and salvation of his own soul and that … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Benedictines, Cassiodorus, Gregory the Great, Monte Cassino
The Rule of St. Benedict
The rule of St. Benedict, on which his fame rests, forms an epoch in the history of monasticism. In a short time it superseded all contemporary and older rules of the kind, and became the immortal code of the most … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Roman Catholic, St. Benedict
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the celebrated order which bears his name, gave to the Western monasticism a fixed and permanent form, and thus carried it far above the Eastern with its imperfect attempts at organization, and made it … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Bernard of Clairvaux, Catholic Church, Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, Pope Gregory I, Subiaco
St. Paula
Of Jerome’s many female disciples, the most distinguished is St. Paula, the model of a Roman Catholic nun. With his accustomed extravagance, he opens his eulogy after her death, in. 404, with these words: “If all the members of my … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Bethlehem, Egypt, Gracchi, Jerusalem, Palestine, Paulus Aemilius, Scipios, St. Paula
St. Jerome as a Monk
The most zealous promoter of the monastic life among the church fathers was Jerome, the connecting link between Eastern and Western learning and religion. His life belongs almost with equal right to the history of theology and the history of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Christianity, Clugny, Epiphanius, Florence, Gregory Nazianzen, Monk, Paris, Paulinus, Prague, Rome, Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus, St. Jerome, Stridon, Victorinus
