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		<title>The Heathen Apologetic Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/heathen-apologetic-literature.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Julian’s Attack upon Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apostate Julian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/julians-attack-christianity.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Heathen Polemics. New Objections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/heathen-polemics-objections.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Downfall of Heathenism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/downfall-heathenism.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Theodosius the Great and his Successors (A.D. 392–550)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/theodosius-great-successors-ad-392550.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Jovian to Theodosius (A.D. 363–392)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ambrose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/jovian-theodosius.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism (A.D. 361–363)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/julian-apostate-reaction-paganism.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Sons of Constantine (A.D. 337–361)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/sons-constantine.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Constantine The Great (A.D. 306–337)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arius]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eusebius of Nicomedia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/constantine-great.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>THIRD PERIOD : FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT (a. d. 311–590)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Schaff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#8230; <a href="http://ecclesiasticalhistory.com/third-period.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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