General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Volume 2

August Neander

Crocker & Brewster, 1849 - Church history

Contents

• SECOND PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 1
• First religious edict of Constantine and Licinius Restrictive clause in: 12
• Constantines directions respecting the Pagan cultus His tolerance: 19
• Influence of the two Gregorys who carried still further the system: 20
• New prohibitions by Constantine Law forbidding idols and idolatrous: 26
• Constantine still a catechumen in the sixtyfourth year of his age: 28
• Way opened for the reaction of Paganism Attempts to revive Paganism: 35
• Julian emperor Assumes the office of Pontifex Maximus Attempts: 41
• Julians behavior towards the Christians His tolerance Reasons of: 51
• Julian in Antioch His zeal in the Pagan worship Julian hated among: 61
• Advice of Gregory Nazianzen to the Christians Jovian grants universal: 67
• monks go about destroying the temples Inconsistency of the: 73
• Justinian Persecution of the Pagan philosophers They fly to Persia 8384: 83
• The dialogue Philopatris Ridicules the Christian doctrine of: 89
• Different ways in which Pagans were converted Numbers of formal: 97
• Extension of Christianity beyond the limits of the Roman empire: 103
• Armenia Gregory the illuminator Miesrobs labors to promote: 113
• Abyssinia Meropius with Ædesius and Frumentius comes to that: 121
• SECTION SECOND: 130
• Benevolent Institutions Public charities for strangers for the poor: 137
• Churches used as asylums The ecclesiastical usage limited by Eutro: 144
• Intrusion of the unworthy into spiritual offices against which decrees: 151
• Οἰκόνομοι ἔκδικοι notarii parabolani numerous: 158
• Rome Rufinuss explanation of the sixth canon of the Nicene council: 165
• Progress of the episcopal power towards the monarchical form Prerog: 169
• General councils Their object Description of them by Gregory: 175
• Constans seeks to gain the Donatists by pecuniary presents Severe: 193
• History of Church Discipline 178182: 205
• The Meletian Schism in Egypt 217221: 217
• Persons convicted of gross offences excluded from the fellowship of: 218
• SECTION THIRD: 223
• Anchorites Defended by Augustine and Chrysostom against: 249
• Simeon the Stylite His labors Theodorets remarks concerning him: 257
• Different spiritual tendencies in religion in their relation to Monachism: 265
• CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 278343: 278
• The sign of the cross: 286
• Images Begin to be opposed Employment of images proceeded from: 294
• Fifth ecumenical council at Constantinople A D 553 Vigilius Constitutum PAGE: 298
• Festival of Sunday Cessation of business Laws of the years 321: 301
• Festival of Christmas Originated in the West about 350 generally: 311
• Public reading of the sacred scriptures Origin of the pericopes Ser: 318
• Infant baptism not as yet universally recognized in the East Causes: 325
• Veneration of the saints Genuine Christian interest connected with: 332
• aims at a total: 342
• Platonism constantly except in the case of Eunomius the scientific form: 349
• Oppositions in the mode of apprehending and treating the single great: 360
• Character of his system: 365
• Critical examination of the diverging reports of Eusebius and of Atha: 372
• Persecutions of Arius and his party: 378
• Renewed charges against Athanasius and hence the synod of Tyre: 384
• Constantines death A D 337 Constantius an emperor who too much: 386
• Return of Athanasius brought about by Constans 392393: 392
• Banishment of Liberius of Rome and Hosius of Cordova: 398
• This term excluded in the symbol of faith drawn up at the council: 404
• Spirit of Christian love shown at the council of Alexandria held under: 410
• Entrance of Theodosius into Constantinople who removes Demophilus: 416
• Language of Theodore and Theodoret opposed to the creation of: 422
• Origen 427428: 427
• Maintains the union of two natures in Christ in opposition to the inter: 428
• In opposition to Apollinaris Athanasius also Gregory of Nazianz: 433
• Doctrine of the Alexandrian church 444446: 444
• Antianathemas of Nestorius: 466
• Proclus appointed patriarch on the death of Maximian in 433 although: 468
• Letter of Nestorius and ten other bishops to the emperor describing: 473
• Nestorius retires to a cloister: 480
• Maintains on scriptural grounds the doctrine of a progressive develop: 485
• Theodorets negotiations with John He endeavors to bring over: 492
• that there is but one Christ: 498
• Party ordinance of the emperor Dioscurus president of the synod: 500
• Complaint entered before this synod against Eutyches by Eusebius: 504
• Dioscurus rules supreme by means of his voice the monks the soldiers: 510
• Change of political relations Pulcheria and Marcian in power after: 516
• Dioscurus deposed: 522
• Nestorian disputes and their consequences down to the time of: 524
• Zeno again emperor Favorable to the Chalcedonian party Choice: 528
• Macedonius of Constantinople Philoxenus of Hierapolis and Seve: 530
• Emperors letter to Mennas and a synod condemn Origen yet Theo: 536
• Thorough and freespirited defence of the three articles by Facundus: 544
• Union of the Monophysites with the ruling church not yet effected: 549
• The personal unity and the complete human nature taken into union: 550
• taught that: 555
• Development of the doctrine concerning man previous to the time: 559
• Doctrine concerning Man 557661: 565
• The first period reaching to about 394 Certain Platonic ideas: 566
• Augustins scheme of doctrine distinctly struck out previous to the Pela: 572
• His doctrine concerning man Virtues of the pagans Denies inherited: 578
• Pelagius at Palestine A D 415 Jerome and Paul Orosius his antago: 581
• Zosimus his successor more favorable to the Pelagian doctrines Cæles: 587
• Difference of prevailing tendency in the doctrinal spirit of the Oriental: 590
• Gregory of Nazianz respecting the most important matters of doc: 596
• but only of his Antiochian notions respecting the person of Christ 595597 Annianus deacon at Celeba a zealous and constant Pelagian Trans: 597
• Leo the Great opposed to Pelagianism The Pelagian Seneca about: 598
• Accordingly the fundamental difference is in the different mode: 605
• The wavering notion of grace among the Pelagians and their three: 613
• Augustin teaches there is but one only spring of true holiness: 618
• John Talaya with Gennadius at Constantinople His connection with: 620
• Augustins prudent logically skilful statement of this doctrine Mis: 625
• Augustin s works written with Christian moderation against the Semi: 631
• Hilary and Prosper in Rome Prospers unsuccessful efforts also with: 637
• The author of the Predestinatus a SemiPelagian By prevenient: 643
• The SemiPelagian Faustus of Rhegium His practical Christian spirit: 645
• The Oriental Church 651661: 651
• Chrysostom His practical spirit His quiet development His rich: 659
• Disputes concerning the propriety of this term Nestorius takes: 687
• New Years festival Not the remodeling of the civil celebration into: 763
• Interference of Cyrill of Alexandria: 764
• Pachomius founder of the cloisterlife The Cœnobium of Tabennæ: 766

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Bibliographic information

• Title: General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Volume 2; General History of the Christian Religion and Church, August Neander
• Author: August Neander
• Translated by: Joseph Torrey
• Publisher: Crocker & Brewster, 1849
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Jul 20, 2006