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Tag Archives: Alexandria
Allegorical Representations of Christ
Pictures of Christ came into use slowly and gradually, as the conceptions concerning his personal appearance changed. The Evangelists very wisely keep profound silence on the subject, and no ideal which human genius may devise, can do justice to Him … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Abraham, Alexandria, Caesarea Philippi, Christ, Chrysostom, Clement of Alexandria, Gnostic, Isaac, Jerome, Jesus Christ, Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian
Catechetical Instruction and Confirmation
1. The catechumenate or preparation for baptism was a very important institution of the early church. It dates substantially from apostolic times. Theophilus was “instructed” in the main facts of the gospel history; and Apollos was “instructed” in the way … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Anglican church, Arnobius, Athenagoras, Baptism, Christianity, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Holy Spirit, Justin, Lactantius, Philip Schaff, Tertullian
Chronology of the Popes
The oldest links in the chain of Roman bishops are veiled in impenetrable darkness. Tertullian and most of the Latins (and the pseudo-Clementina), make Clement (Phil. 4:3), the first successor of Peter; but Irenaeus, Eusebius, and other Greeks, also Jerome … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Anacletus, Antioch, Christian, Christianity, Clement, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Linus, Paul, Philip Schaff, Popes, Tertullian
Beginnings of the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Systems
Though the bishops were equal in their dignity and powers as successors of the apostles, they gradually fell into different ranks, according to the ecclesiastical and political importance of their several districts. 1. On the lowest level stood the bishops … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Antioch, Asia Minor, Carthage, Constantine, Corinth, Council of Nicaea, Egypt, Ephesus, Eusebius, Gaul, Irenaeus, Jerusalem, Metropolitan, Patriarchal, Philip Schaff, Rome, Syria, Tertullian
Porphyry and Hierocles
One of the leading Neo-Platonists made a direct attack upon Christianity, and was, in the eyes of the church fathers, its bitterest and most dangerous enemy. Towards the end of the third century Porphyry wrote an extended work against the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Antioch, Apollonius of Tyana, Aristeas, Bythynia, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Daniel, Diocletian, Eusebius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Hierocles, Marcella, Methodius of Tyre, Moses, Old Testament, Origen, Paul, Peter, Philip Schaff, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Theodosius II, Valentinian III, Zeus
Neo-Platonism
More earnest and dignified, but for this very reason more lasting and dangerous, was the opposition which proceeded directly and indirectly from Neo-Platonism. This system presents the last phase, the evening red, so to speak, of the Grecian philosophy; a … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexander of Abonoteichos, Alexander Severus, Alexandria, Ammonius Saccas, Apollonius, Apollonius of Tyana, Chalcis in Coelo-Syria, Christ, Christianity, Elymas, Gnosticism, Jairus, Jamblichus, Julia Domna, Jupiter, Neo-Platonism, Orpheus, Philip Schaff, Porphyry, Proclus of Constantinople, Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, religion, Septimius Severus, Simon Magus, St. Augustine
