A Source Book for Ancient Church History

1. Opening about 6 min
2. ERRATA about 1 min
3. Preface about 4 min
4. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about 4 min
5. Period I. The Apostolic Age: To Circa A. D. 100 about 1 min
6. § 1. The Neronian Persecution about 4 min
7. § 2. The Death of Peter and Paul about 2 min
8. § 3. The Death of the Apostle John about 2 min
9. § 4. The Persecution under Domitian about 1 min
10. Period II. The Post-Apostolic Age: A. D. 100-A. D. 140 about 1 min
11. § 5. Christianity and Judaism about 5 min
12. § 6. The Extension of Christianity about 2 min
13. § 7. Relation of the Roman State to Christianity about 5 min
14. § 8. Martyrdom and the Desire for Martyrdom about 2 min
15. § 9. The Position of the Roman Community of Christians in the Church about 2 min
16. § 10. Chiliastic Expectations about 4 min
17. § 11. The Church and the World about 4 min
18. § 12. Theological Ideas about 4 min
19. § 13. Worship in the Post-Apostolic Period about 5 min
20. § 14. Church Organization about 10 min
21. § 15. Church Discipline about 3 min
22. § 16. Moral Ideas in the Post-Apostolic Period about 6 min
23. Period III. The Critical Period: A. D. 140 to A. D. 200 about 2 min
24. I. The Church In Relation To The Empire And Heathen Culture under 1 min
25. § 17. The Extension of Christianity about 25 min
26. § 20. The Literary Defence of Christianity about 9 min
27. II. The Internal Crisis: The Gnostic And Other Heretical Sects about 1 min
28. § 21. The Earlier Gnostics: Gnosticism in General about 8 min
29. § 22. The Greater Gnostic Systems: Basilides and Valentinus about 31 min
30. § 23. Marcion about 5 min
31. § 24. Encratites about 2 min
32. § 25. Montanism about 3 min
33. III. The Defence Against Heresy about 1 min
34. § 26. The Beginnings of Councils as a Defence against Heresy about 2 min
35. § 27. The Apostolic Tradition and the Episcopate about 8 min
36. § 28. The Canon or the Authoritative New Testament Writings about 10 min
37. § 29. The Apostles’ Creed about 5 min
38. § 30. Later Gnosticism about 1 min
39. § 31. The Results of the Crisis about 3 min
40. IV. The Beginnings Of Catholic Theology about 1 min
41. § 32. The Apologetic Conception of Christianity about 1 min
42. (A) The Logos Doctrine about 2 min
43. (B) The Doctrine of the Trinity about 2 min
44. (C) Moralistic Christianity about 1 min
45. (D) Argument from Hebrew Prophecy about 1 min
46. § 33. The Asia Minor Conception of Christianity about 5 min
47. Period IV. The Age Of The Consolidation Of The Church: 200 to 324 A. D about 1 min
48. I. The Political And Religious Conditions Of The Empire about 1 min
49. § 34. State and Church under Septimius Severus and Caracalla about 12 min
50. § 35. Religious Syncretism in the Third Century about 13 min
51. II. The Internal Development Of The Church In Doctrine, Custom, And Constitution about 8 min
52. § 39. The Religion of the West: Its Moral and Juristic Character about 10 min
53. § 40. The Monarchian Controversies about 1 min
54. (A) Dynamistic Monarchianism about 4 min
55. (B) Modalistic Monarchianism about 11 min
56. § 42. The Penitential Discipline about 9 min
57. § 43. The Catechetical School of Alexandria: Clement and Origen about 19 min
58. § 44. Neo-Platonism about 4 min
59. III. The First General Persecution And Its Consequences about 1 min
60. § 45. The Decian-Valerian Persecution about 18 min
61. IV. The Period Of Peace For The Church: A. D. 260 To A. D. 303 about 1 min
62. § 47. The Chiliastic Controversy about 18 min
63. § 49. The Development of the Cultus about 9 min
64. § 50. The Episcopate in the Church about 4 min
65. § 51. The Unity of the Church and the See of Rome about 8 min
66. § 52. Controversy over Baptism by Heretics about 5 min
67. § 53. The Beginnings of Monasticism about 6 min
68. § 54. Manichæanism about 7 min
69. V. The Last Great Persecution about 1 min
70. § 55. The Reorganization of the Empire by Diocletian about 2 min
71. § 56. The Diocletian Persecution about 23 min
72. I. The Church And Empire Under Constantine about 1 min
73. § 58. The Empire under Constantine and His Sons about 5 min
74. § 59. Favor Shown the Church by Constantine about 6 min
75. § 60. The Repression of Heathenism under Constantine about 2 min
76. § 61. The Donatist Schism under Constantine about 14 min
77. II. The Arian Controversy Until The Extinction Of The Dynasty Of Constantine about 14 min
78. § 64. The Beginnings of the Eusebian Reaction under Constantine about 5 min
79. § 65. The Victory of the Anti-Nicene Party in the East about 23 min
80. § 68. Julian the Apostate about 16 min
81. III. The Triumph Of The New Nicene Orthodoxy Over Heterodoxy And Heathenism about 17 min
82. § 70. The Dogmatic Parties and Their Mutual Relations about 13 min
83. IV. The Empire And The Imperial State Church about 2 min
84. § 72. The Constitution of the State Church about 1 min
85. (A) The Ecumenical Council about 2 min
86. (B) The Hierarchical Organization about 16 min
87. § 73. Sole Authority of the State Church about 20 min
88. § 75. Social Significance of the State Church about 18 min
89. § 76. Popular Piety and the Reception of Heathenism in the Church about 8 min
90. § 77. The Extension of Monasticism Throughout the Empire about 28 min
91. § 79. The Empire of the Dynasty of Theodosius about 12 min
92. II. The Church Of The Western Empire In The Fifth Century about 1 min
93. § 81. The Western Church Toward the End of the Fourth Century about 5 min
94. § 82. Augustine’s Life and Place in the Western Church about 18 min
95. § 83. Augustine and the Donatist Schism about 15 min
96. § 84. The Pelagian Controversy about 17 min
97. § 85. Semi-Pelagian Controversy about 23 min
98. III. The Church In The Eastern Empire about 17 min
99. § 88. The Christological Problem and the Theological Tendencies about 1 h 8 min
100. I. The Church In The Eastern Empire about 1 min
101. § 93. The Age of Justinian about 18 min
102. § 94. The Byzantine State Church under Justinian about 16 min
103. II. The Transition To The Middle Ages. The Foundation Of The Germanic National Churches about 1 min
104. § 96. The Celtic Church in the British Isles about 20 min
105. § 98. The State Church in the Germanic Kingdoms about 34 min
106. § 100. The Foundation of the Anglo-Saxon Church about 18 min
107. III. The Foundation Of The Ecclesiastical Institutions Of The Middle Ages about 14 min
108. § 103. The Foundation of the Mediæval Penitential System about 9 min
109. § 104. The New Monasticism and the Rule of Benedict of Nursia about 21 min
110. § 105. Foundation of Mediæval Culture and Schools about 13 min
111. § 106. The Rise and Extension of Islam about 1 h 4 min
112. INDEX about 15 min
113. FOOTNOTES about 24 min

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