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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: Constantinople
Pachomius and the Cloister Life
Though the strictly solitary life long continued in use, and to this day appears here and there in the Greek and Roman churches, yet from the middle of the fourth century monasticism began to assume in general the form of … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Christians, Constantine, Constantinople, Licinius, Mount Sinai, Pachomius, Thebes, Upper Thebaid
St. Symeon and the Pillar Saints
It is unnecessary to recount the lives of other such anchorets; since the same features, even to unimportant details, repeat themselves in all. But in the fifth century a new and quite original path was broken by Symeon, the father … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Christians, Constantinople, Elias, Gregory of Tours, Moses, St. Symeon
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
Influence of Christianity on Civil Legislation. The Justinian Code
While in this way the state secured to the church the well-deserved rights of a legal corporation, the church exerted in turn a most beneficent influence on the state, liberating it by degrees from the power of heathen laws and … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Berytus, Christendom, Christian, Constantine, Constantinople, Rome, Tribonianus
Support of the Clergy
3. The better support of the clergy was another advantage connected with the new position of Christianity in the empire. Hitherto the clergy had been entirely dependent on the voluntary contributions of the Christians, and the Christians were for the … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Augustine, Carthage, Constantinople, Gregory Nazianzen, Jerome, Pope Damasus, St. Jerome
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
External History of Montanism
All the ascetic, rigoristic, and chiliastic elements of the ancient church combined in Montanism. They there asserted a claim to universal validity, which the catholic church was compelled, for her own interest, to reject; since she left the effort after … Continue reading
Book Title: History of the Christian Church
Related Topics: Antoninus Pius, Appollonius, Cappadocia, Carthage, Cataphrygians, Catholic, Catholic Church, Christianity, Cilicia, Claudius Apolinarius of Hierapolis, Clement of Alexandria, Colossae, Constantine, Constantinople, Cybele, Epiphanius, Galatia, Hierapolis, John of Damascus, Laodicea, Marcus Aurelius, Miltiades, Montanism, Montanists, Montanus, North Africa, Pepuziani, Phrygia, Phrygians, Priscillianists, Serapion of Antioch, Tertullian
