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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
Tag Archives: Christianity
St. Jerome as a Monk
The most zealous promoter of the monastic life among the church fathers was Jerome, the connecting link between Eastern and Western learning and religion. His life belongs almost with equal right to the history of theology and the history of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Christianity, Clugny, Epiphanius, Florence, Gregory Nazianzen, Monk, Paris, Paulinus, Prague, Rome, Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus, St. Jerome, Stridon, Victorinus
Influence and Effect of Monasticism
The influence of monasticism upon the world, from Anthony and Benedict to Luther and Loyola, is deeply marked in all branches of the history of the church. Here, too, we must distinguish light and shade. The operation of the monastic … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Anthony, Augustine, Christianity, Egypt, Monasticism, Palestine, Syria, Thomas a Kempis, Thomas Aquinas
Lights and Shades of Monastic Life
The contrast between pure and normal Bible-Christianity and abnormal Monastic Christianity, will appear more fully if we enter into a close examination of the latter as it actually appeared in the ancient church. The extraordinary rapidity with which this world-forsaking … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, God, Jesuit, Monastic, Old Testament
Monasticism and the Bible
Monasticism, therefore, claims to be the highest and purest form of Christian piety and virtue, and the surest way to heaven. Then, we should think, it must be preëminently commended in the Bible, and actually exhibited in the life of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Bible, Christianity, Elisha, God, John the Baptist, Judaism, Lazarus, Mary, Monasticism, New Testament
Origin of Christian Monasticism. Comparison with other forms of Asceticism
In the beginning of the fourth century monasticism appears in the history of the church, and thenceforth occupies a distinguished place. Beginning in Egypt, it spread in an irresistible tide over the East and the West, continued to be the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: asceticism, Christ, Christianity, Essenes, Moses, Nazarites, Origen, Palestine
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
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
