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New Church History Articles
- The Heathen Apologetic Literature
- Julian’s Attack upon Christianity
- Heathen Polemics. New Objections
- The Downfall of Heathenism
- Theodosius the Great and his Successors (A.D. 392–550)
- From Jovian to Theodosius (A.D. 363–392)
- Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism (A.D. 361–363)
- The Sons of Constantine (A.D. 337–361)
- Constantine The Great (A.D. 306–337)
- THIRD PERIOD : FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT (a. d. 311–590)
Tag Archives: Christianity
The Heathen Apologetic Literature
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 … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antioch, Aurelius Symmachus, Christianity, Constantinople, Nicomedia, Themistius, Theodosius I
Julian’s Attack upon Christianity
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 … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Apostate Julian, Christianity, Critias, Cyril of Alexandria, Eunapius, Jesus Christ, Porphyry, Zosimus
Heathen Polemics. New Objections
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 … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Alexandria, Christianity, Neo-Platonic
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
Commodian
Commodian was probably a clergyman in North Africa. He was converted from heathenism by the study of the Scriptures, especially of the Old Testament. He wrote about the middle of the third century two works in the style of vulgar … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antichrist, Christianity, Commodian, Jerusalem, Lactantius, Nero, Patripassian, Pope Gelasius
Minucius Felix
In close connection with Tertullian, either shortly before, or shortly after him, stands the Latin Apologist Minucius Felix. Converts are always the most zealous, and often the most effective promoters of the system or sect which they have deliberately chosen … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Christianity, Cicero, Marcus Minucius Felix, Minucius Felix
Tertullian and the African School
The Western church in this period exhibits no such scientific productiveness as the Eastern. The apostolic church was predominantly Jewish, the ante-Nicene church, Greek, the post-Nicene, Roman. The Roman church itself was first predominantly Greek, and her earliest writers—Clement, Hermas, … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Carthage, Christianity, Clement of Alexandria, Holy Ghost, Jerome, Origen, Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, Tertullian
