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Tag Archives: Antioch
The Epiphany
The feast of the Epiphany is of later origin. It spread from the East towards the West, but here, even in the fourth century, it was resisted by such parties as the Donatists, and condemned as an oriental innovation. It … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Baltazar, Cana, Caspar, Christ, Christmas, Chrysostom, Epiphany, Jesus, Magi, Melchior, Nativity, Philip Schaff
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
Trajan (A.D. 98–117): Christianity Forbidden – Martyrdom of Symeon of Jerusalem, and Ignatius of Antioch
Trajan, one of the best and most praiseworthy emperors, honored as the “father of his country,” but, like his friends, Tacitus and Pliny, wholly ignorant of the nature of Christianity, was the first to pronounce it in form a proscribed … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Asia Minor, Christianity, Christians, Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus, Jesus, Origen, Philip Schaff, Symeon of Jerusalem, Tertullian, Trajan
Different Types of Apostolic Teaching
With all this harmony, the Christian doctrine appears in the New Testament in different forms according to the peculiar character, education, and sphere of the several sacred writers. The truth of the gospel, in itself infinite, can adapt itself to … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Apostles, Apostolic Teaching, Christian, doctrine, Gentile Christianity, Gentiles, Gospel, Gospel of Matthew, James, Jewish Christianity, Paul, Peter, Philip Schaff, Saviour
The Conservative Reaction, and The Liberal Victory — Peter and Paul at Antioch
The Jerusalem compromise, like every other compromise, was liable to a double construction, and had in it the seed of future troubles. It was an armistice rather than a final settlement. Principles must and will work themselves out, and the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Ebionites, Gentiles, Jerusalem, Jewish Christians, Judaizing, Philip Schaff, St. Paul, St. Peter
