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History of the Christian Church • VOLUME 1

[22] English translation by Dr. Edw. Cox, Lond. 1840-'42, in 4 vols. This combines Döllinger's Handbuch and Lehrbuch as far as they supplement each other.

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[22] English translation by Dr. Edw. Cox, Lond. 1840-'42, in 4 vols. This combines Döllinger's Handbuch and Lehrbuch as far as they supplement each other.

[23] See Schaff's Creeds of Christendom, Vol. I., 195 sq.; Von Schulte: Der Altkatholicismus (Giessen, 1887), 109 sqq.

[24] UnpartheiischeKirchen- und Ketzerhistorie. Frankfurt, 1699 sqq. 4 vol. fol.

[25] Best edition: Institutes of Ecclesiastical History ancient and modern, by John Lawrence von Mosheim. A new and literal translation from the original Latin, with copious additional Notes, original and selected. By James Murdock, D. D. 1832; 5th ed., New York. 1854, 3 vols. Murdock was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Andover, Mass. (d. 1856), and translated also Münscher's Dogmengeschichte. Mosheim's special history of the ante-Nicene period (1733) was translated from the Latin by Vidal (1813), and Murdock (1851), new ed., N. York, 1853, 2 vols.

[26] Christliche Kirchengeschichte. Leipzig, 1768-1812, 45 vols. 8vo, including 10 vols. of the History after the Reformation (the last two by Tzschirner). Nobody ever read Schroeckh through (except the author and the proof-reader), and the very name is rather abschreckend, but he is as valuable for reference as Baronius, and far more impartial.

[27] Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen Religion und Kirche. Hamburg, 1825-'52, 11 parts; 3d ed. 1856, in 4 large vols., with an excellent introduction by Dr. Ullmann. The translation of Prof. Joseph Torrey (of Burlington, Vt., d. 1867) was published in Boston in 5 vols., 12th ed., 1881, with a model Index of 239 pages.

[28] I have given a fuller account of the life and writings of Neander, my beloved teacher, in my "Kirchenfreund" for 1851, pp. 20 sqq. and 283 sqq and in Aug. Neander, Erinnerungen, Gotha, 1886 (76 pp.). Comp. also Harnack's oration at the centennial of Neander's birth, Berlin, Jan 17, 1889, and A. Wiegand, Aug. Neander, Erfurt, 1889.

[29] Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte. Bonn, 1824-'56 (4th ed. 1844 sqq.), in 5 volumes, the last two published from his lectures after his death by Redepenning. Translated into English first by Cunningham, in Philadelphia, 1840 then by Davidson and Hull, in England, and last and best, on the basis of the former, by Henry B. Smith, New York (Harpers), in 5 vols., 1857-1880. The fifth and last volume of this edition was completed after Dr. Smith's death (1877) by Prof. Stearns and Miss Mary A. Robinson, with an introductory notice by Philip Schaff. Gieseler's Dogmengeschichte appeared separately in 1855.

[30] Comp. Landerer's Worte der Erinnerung an Dr. Baur, 1860, the article: "Baur und die Tübinger Schule," in Herzog and Plitt "Theol. Encykl.," Vol. II., 163-184 (2d ed.), and R. W. Mackay: The Tübingen School and its Antecedents. London, 1863. See also Zeller, Vorträge(1865), pp. 267 sqq.

[31] Portions of Hagenbach's History have been translated, namely, the History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Dr. John P. Hurst (President of Drew Theol. Seminary, Madison, N. J.), N. York, 1869, 2 vols., and the History of the Reformation by Miss Evelina Moore (of Newark, N. J.), Edinburgh, 1879, 2 vols. A new ed. with literature by Nippold, 1885 sqq.

[32] English translation by C. W. Buch, Edinburgh, 1846, revised from the 4th ed., and enlarged from Neander, Gieseler, Baur, etc., by Henry B. Smith, N. York, 1861, in 2 vols.; 6th Germ. ed. byK. Benrath, Leipz. 1888.

[33] In 1885 Hass began the publication of his Lectures on Ch. Hist., 3 vols.

[34] English translation from the 9th ed. by J. Macpherson, 1889, 3 vols.

[35] Histoire de la Réformat du 16 siècle Paris, 1835 sqq., 4th ed. 1861 sqq., 5 vols. Histoire de la Réformation en Europe au temps de Calvin. Paris, 1863 sqq. German translation of both works, Stuttgart (Steinkopf), 1861 and 1863 sqq. English translation repeatedly published in England and the United States by the Amer. Tract Society (with sundry changes), and by Carter & Brothers. The Carter ed. (N. York, 1863-1879) is in 5 vols. for the Lutheran Reformation, and in 8 vols. for the Reformation in the time of Calvin. The last three vols. of the second series were translated and published after the author's death by W L. Cates. By a singular mistake Dr. Merle goes in England and America by the name of D'Aubigné, which is merely an assumed by-name from his Huguenot ancestors.

[36] Jésus Christ, son temps, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris, 1866. Histoire des trois premiers siècles de l'église chrétienne. Paris, 1858 sqq. German translation by Fabarius (Leipzig, 1862-65), English translation by Annie Harwood. Lond. and N. York, 1870 sqq., 4 vols. Superseded by a revised ed. of the original, Paris, 1887 sqq.

[37] Vie de Jèsus. Paris, 1863, and in many editions in different languages. This book created even a greater sensation than the Leben Jesu of Strauss, but is very superficial and turns the gospel history into a novel with a self-contradictory and impossible hero. It forms the first volume of his Histoire des origines du christianisme. The other volumes are: 2. Les Apótres, Paris, 1866; 3. St. Paul, 1869; 4. L'Antechrist, 1873; 5. La évangiles et la, seconde génération des chrétiens, 1877; 6. L'église chrétienne, 1879; Marc-Aurèle et la fin du monde antique, 1882. The work of twenty years. Renan wrote, he says, "without any other passion than a very keen curiosity."

[38] Cardinal Newman, shortly before his transition from Oxford Tractarianism to Romanism (in his essay on Development of Christian Doctrine, 1845), declared "the infidel Gibbon to be the chief, perhaps the only English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian." This is certainly not true any longer. Dr. McDonald, in an essay "Was Gibbon an infidel?" (in the "Bibliotheca Sacra" for July, 1868, Andover, Ham.), tried to vindicate him against the charge of infidelity. But Gibbon was undoubtedly a Deist and deeply affected by the skepticism of Hume and Voltaire. While a student at Oxford he was converted to Romanism by reading Bossuet's Variations of Protestantism, and afterwards passed over to infidelity, with scarcely a ray of hope of any immortality but that of fame, See his Autobiography, Ch. VIII., and his letter to Lord Sheffield of April 27, 1793, where he says that his "only consolation" in view of death and the trials of life was "the presence of a friend." Best ed. of Gibbon, by W. Smith.

[39] London, 1794-1812; new ed. by Grantham, 1847, 4 vols., 1860, and other ed. A German translation by Mortimer, Gnadau, 5 vols.

[40] Republished by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1885. The author has transferred verbatim a large portion of his Manual from my church history, but with proper acknowledgment. Another church history by a writer nearer home has made even larger, but less honest use of my book.

[41] The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. Lond. 1840, revised ed., Lond. and N. York (Middleton), 1866, 3 vols. More important is his History of Latin Christianity to the Pontificate of Nicholas V. (a.d. 1455), Lond. and N. York, 1854 sqq, in 8 vols. Milman wrote also a History of the Jews, 1829 (revised 1862, 3 vols.), and published an edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall with useful annotations. A complete edition of his historical works appeared, Lond. 1866-'67, in 15 vols. 8vo.

[42] Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church (delivered in Oxford), Lond. and N. York, 1862. No complete history, but a series of picturesque descriptions of the most interesting characters and scenes in the Eastern church. Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, Lond. and N. York, l862-'76, in 3 vols. An independent and skilful adaptation of the views and results of Ewald's Geschichte Israel's, to which Stanley pays a fine tribute in the Prefaces to the first and third vols. His Historical Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral (1855, 5th ed. 1869), and of Westminster Abbey (1867, 4th ed. 1874), are important for English church history. His Lectures on the History of the, Church of Scotland (1872) have delighted the moderate and liberal, but displeased the orthodox Presbyterians of the land of Knox and Walter Scott.

[43] Farrar's Life of Christ appeared first in London, 1874, in 2 vols., and has up to 1879 gone through about thirty editions, including the American reprints. His Life and 'Work of St. Paul, Lond. and N. York, 1879, in 2 vols.; and The Early Days of Christianity, London and New York, 1882, 2 vols.; and Lives of the Fathers, Lond. and N. Y. 1889, 2 vols.

[44] History of the Church of Christ in (16) Chronological Tables. N. York (Charles Scribner), 1860. Weingarten's Zeittafeln zur Kirchengeschichte, 3ded., 1888, are less complete, but more convenient in size.

[45] Comp. the author's Christianity in the United States of America (a report prepared for the seventh General Conference of the Evang. Alliance, held at Basle, Sept., 1879), printed in the Proceedings of that Conference, and his Church and State in the U. S., N. York, 1888.

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