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Category Archives: History of the Christian Church
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
The Sons of Constantine (A.D. 337–361)
With the death of Constantine the monarchy also came, for the present, to an end. The empire was divided among his three sons, Constantine II., Constans, and Constantius. Their accession was not in Christian style, but after the manner of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Arian, Christianity, Constantine, Constantius
Constantine The Great (A.D. 306–337)
The last great imperial persecution of the Christians under Diocletian and Galerius, which was aimed at the entire uprooting of the new religion, ended with the edict of toleration of 311 and the tragical ruin of the persecutors. The edict … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Arius, Constantine the Great, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Semi-Arian, Κωνσταντίνου
THIRD PERIOD : FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT (a. d. 311–590)
SOURCES. I. Christian Sources: (a) The Acts Of Councils; in the Collectiones conciliorum of Hardouin, Par. 1715 sqq. 12 vols. fol.; Mansi, Flor. et Ven. 1759 sqq. 31 vols. fol.; Fuchs: Bibliothek der Kirchenversammlungen des 4ten und 5ten Jahrh. Leipz. … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Athanasius, Basil, Eusebius
