History of the Christian Church • VOLUME 2
Ante-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 100–325
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1History1,683 words2SECOND PERIOD1,682 words3§ 2. General Character of Ante-Nicene Christianity.2,078 words4CHAPTER I:1,071 words5§ 5. Causes of the Success of Christianity.1,644 words6§ 6. Means of Propagation.722 words7§ 7. Extent of Christianity in the Roman Empire.861 words8§ 9. Christianity in Egypt.1,423 words9§ 11. Christianity in Europe.895 words10CHAPTER II:1,908 words11§ 14. Jewish Persecution.1,244 words12§ 15. Causes of Roman Persecution.1,356 words13§ 16. Condition of the Church before the Reign of Trajan.2,001 words14§ 18. Hadrian. a.d. 117-138.1,389 words15§ 20. Persecutions under Marcus Aurelius. a.d. 161-180.1,774 words16§ 21. Condition of the Church from Septimius Severus to Philip the Arabian. a.d. 193-249.1,022 words17§ 22. Persecutions under Decius, and Valerian. a.d. 249-260. Martyrdom of Cyprian.1,055 words18§ 23. Temporary Repose. a.d. 260-303.2,210 words19§ 25. The Edicts of Toleration. a.d. 311-313.1,925 words20§ 26. Christian Martyrdom.2,008 words21Notes.1,058 words22§ 27. Rise of the Worship of Martyrs and Relics.951 words23CHAPTER III.727 words24§ 30. Jewish Opposition. Josephus and the Talmud.893 words25§ 32. Direct Assaults. Celsus.1,475 words26§ 33. Lucian.731 words27§ 34. Neo-Platonism.1,923 words28§ 35. Porphyry and Hierocles764 words29§ 36. Summary of the Objections to Christianity.1,307 words30§ 38. The Argument against Judaism.851 words31§ 39. The Defense against Heathenism.1,773 words32§ 40. The Positive Apology.2,048 words33CHAPTER IV:772 words34§ 42. Clergy and Laity.2,099 words35[122] Comp. Acts 8:4; 9:27; 13:15; 18:26, 28; Rom. 12:6; 1 Cor. 12:10, 28; 14:1-6, 31. Even in the Jewish Synagogue the liberty of teaching was enjoyed, and the elder cou1,156 words36§ 43. New Church Officers.2,036 words37II. The theory of the post-apostolic origin of the episcopate as a separate office or order, and its rise out of the presidency of the original congregational presbyterat2,145 words38§ 45. Development of the Episcopate. Ignatius.2,147 words39§ 46. Episcopacy at the time of Irenaeus and Tertullian.812 words40§ 47. Cyprianic Episcopacy.858 words41§ 49. Beginnings of the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Systems2,066 words42Ignatius.1,972 words43§ 51. Chronology of the Popes.1,065 words44§ 52. List of the Roman Bishops and Roman Emperors during the First Three Centuries.2,026 words45The Catholic church was founded from the first by Christ on St. Peter alone, that, with all the equality of power among the apostles, unity might still be kept prominent 1,157 words46§ 54. Councils.1,477 words47§ 55. The Councils of Elvira, Arles, and Ancyra.1,373 words48§ 56. Collections of Ecclesiastical Law. The Apostolical Constitutions and Canons.1,557 words49§ 57. Church Discipline.1,976 words50§ 58. Church Schisms.1,797 words51CHAPTER V:1,221 words52§ 60. The Lord's Day.1,762 words53§ 61. The Christian Passover. (Easter).1,355 words54§ 62. The Paschal Controversies.2,023 words553. Much more important and vehement was the third stage of the controversy between 190 and 194, which extended over the whole church, and occasioned many synods and synod2,034 words56[336] Renan (l.c., p. 447) conjectures that Trenaeus and Florinus accompanied Polycarp on that journey to Rome. Neander and others give a wrong date, 162. Polycarp died i732 words57§ 63. Pentecost.731 words58§ 65. The Order of Public Worship.764 words59§ 66. Parts of Worship.2,001 words60O chaste people926 words
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