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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
Restriction of Religious Freedom, and Beginnings of Persecution of Heretics
An inevitable consequence of the union of church and state was restriction of religious freedom in faith and worship, and the civil punishment of departure from the doctrine and discipline of the established church. The church, dominant and recognized by … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Arianism, Augustine, Byzantine, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Constantine, Gaudentius, Heretics, Leo the Great
The Emperor-Papacy and the Hierarchy
And this, in point of fact, took place first under Constantine, and developed under his successors, particularly under Justinian, into the system of the Byzantine imperial papacy, or of the supremacy of the state over the church. Constantine once said … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Arianism, Byzantine, Constantine, Emperor, Eutychianism, Monophysitism, Nestorianism, Papacy
Intrusion of Politics into Religion
With the union of the church and the state begins the long and tedious history of their collisions and their mutual struggles for the mastery: the state seeking to subject the church to the empire, the church to subject the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustus, Christian, God, Julian the Apostate, Lord, Politics, religion
Byzantine Court Christianity
The unnatural confusion of Christianity with the world culminated in the imperial court of Constantinople, which, it is true, never violated moral decency so grossly as the court of a Nero or a Domitian, but in vain pomp and prodigality … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Ambrose, Byzantine, Christianity, Chrysostom, Constantinople, Constantius, Libanius, Theodosius
Worldliness and Extravagance
The secularization of the church appeared most strikingly in the prevalence of mammon worship and luxury compared with the poverty and simplicity of the primitive Christians. The aristocracy of the later empire had a morbid passion for outward display and … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Chrysostom, Gregory Nazianzen, Salvianus
Evils of the Union of Church and State. Secularization of the Church
We turn now to the dark side of the union of the church with the state; to the consideration of the disadvantages which grew out of their altered relation after the time of Constantine, and which continue to show themselves … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Anthony, Anthusa, Athanasius, Augustine, Benedict, Christendom, Christian, Christianity, Chrysostom, Church, Constantine, Monica, Nonna, Pachomius
Abolition of Gladiatorial Shows
6. And finally, one of the greatest and most beautiful victories of Christian humanity over heathen barbarism and cruelty was the abolition of gladiatorial contests, against which the apologists in the second century had already raised the most earnest protest. … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustine, Christian, Gladiator
