History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600

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Contents

1. Preface to the Third Revision
2. Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity
3. Sources
4. Later Literature
5. Introduction and General View
6. Downfall of Heathenism and Victory of Christianity in the Roman Empire
7. Constantine The Great. a.d. 306-337
8. The Sons of Constantine. a.d. 337-361
9. Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism. a.d. 361-363
10. From Jovian to Theodosius. a.d. 363-392
11. Theodosius the Great and his Successors. a.d. 392-550
12. The Downfall of Heathenism
13. Heathen Polemics. New Objections
14. Julian's Attack upon Christianity
15. The Heathen Apologetic Literature
16. Christian Apologists and Polemics
17. Augustine's City of God. Salvianus
18. Alliance of Church and State and Its Influence on Public Morals and Religion
19. The New Position of the Church in the Empire
20. Rights and Privileges of the Church. Secular Advantages
21. Support of the Clergy
22. Episcopal Jurisdiction and Intercession
23. Legal Sanction of Sunday
24. Influence of Christianity on Civil Legislation. The Justinian Code
25. Elevation of Woman and the Family
26. Social Reforms. The Institution of Slavery
27. Abolition of Gladiatorial Shows
28. Evils of the Union of Church and State. Secularization of the Church
29. Worldliness and Extravagance
30. Byzantine Court Christianity
31. Intrusion of Politics into Religion
32. The Emperor-Papacy and the Hierarchy
33. Restriction of Religious Freedom, and Beginnings of Persecution of Heretics
34. The Rise and Progress of Monasticism
35. Origin of Christian Monasticism. Comparison with other forms of Asceticism
36. Development of Monasticism
37. Nature and Aim of Monasticism
38. Monasticism and the Bible
39. Lights and Shades of Monastic Life
40. Position of Monks in the Church
41. Influence and Effect of Monasticism
42. Paul of Thebes and St. Anthony
43. Spread of Anchoretism. Hilarion
44. St. Symeon and the Pillar Saints
45. Pachomius and the Cloister life
46. Fanatical and Heretical Monastic Societies in The East
47. Monasticism in the West. Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Martin of Tours
48. St. Jerome as a Monk
49. St. Paula
50. Benedict of Nursia
51. The Rule of St. Benedict
52. The Benedictines. Cassiodorus
53. Opposition to Monasticism. Jovinian
54. Helvidius, Vigilantius, and Aerius
55. The Hierarchy and Polity of the Church
56. Schools of the Clergy
57. Clergy and Laity. Elections
58. Marriage and Celibacy of the Clergy
59. Moral Character of the Clergy in general
60. The Lower Clergy
61. The Bishops
62. Organization of the Hierarchy: Country Bishop, City Bishops, and Metropolitans
63. The Patriarchs
64. Synodical Legislation on the Patriarchal Power and Jurisdiction
65. The Rival Patriarchs of Old and New Rome
66. The Latin Patriarch
67. Conflicts and Conquests of the Latin Patriarchate
68. The Papacy
69. Opinions of the Fathers
70. The Decrees of Councils on the Papal Authority
71. Leo the Great. a.d. 440-461
72. The Papacy from Leo I to Gregory I. a.d. 461-590
73. The Synodical System. The Ecumenical Councils
74. List of the Ecumenical Councils of the Ancient Church
75. Books of Ecclesiastical Law
76. Decline of Discipline
77. The Donatist Schism. External History
78. Augustine and the Donatists. Their Persecution and Extinction
79. Internal History of the Donatist Schism. Dogma of the Church
80. The Roman Schism of Damasus and Ursinus
81. The Meletian Schism at Antioch
82. The Revolution in Cultus
83. The Civil and Religious Sunday
84. The Church Year
85. The Christmas Cycle
86. The Easter Cycle
87. The Time of the Easter Festival
88. The Cycle of Pentecost
89. The Exaltation of the Virgin Mariology
90. Mariolatry
91. The Festivals of Mary
92. The Worship of Martyrs and Saints
93. Festivals of the Saints
94. The Christian Calendar. The Legends of the Saints. The Acta Sanctorum
95. Worship of Relics. Dogma of the Resurrection. Miracles of Relics
96. Observations on the Miracles of the Nicene Age
97. Processions and Pilgrimages
98. Public Worship of the Lord's Day. Scripture-Reading and Preaching
99. The Sacraments in General
100. Baptism
101. Confirmation
102. Ordination
103. The Sacrament of the Eucharist
104. The Sacrifice of the Eucharist
105. The Celebration of the Eucharist
106. The Liturgies. Their Origin and Contents
107. The Oriental Liturgies
108. The Occidental Liturgies
109. Liturgical Vestments
110. Religion and Art
111. Church Architecture
112. The Consecration of Churches
113. Interior Arrangement of Churches
114. Architectural Style. The Basilicas
115. The Byzantine Style
116. Baptisteries, Grave-Chapels, and Crypts
117. Crosses and Crucifixes
118. Images of Christ
119. Images of Madonna and Saints
120. Consecrated Gifts
121. Church Poetry and Music
122. The Poetry of the Oriental Church
123. The Latin Hymn
124. The Latin Poets and Hymns
125. General Observations. Doctrinal Importance of the Period. Influence of the Ancient Philosophy
126. Sources of Theology. Scripture and Tradition
127. The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325
128. The Council of Nicaea, 325
129. The Arian and Semi-Arian Reaction, a.d. 325-361
130. The Final Victory of Orthodoxy, and the Council of Constantinople, 381
131. The Theological Principles involved: Import of the Controversy
132. Arianism
133. Semi-Arianism
134. Revived Sabellianism. Marcellus and Photinus
135. The Nicene Doctrine of the Consubstantiality of the Son with the Father
136. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
137. The Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creed
138. The Nicene, Doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinitarian Terminology
139. The Post-Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine of Augustine
140. The Athanasian Creed
141. The Orgenistic Controversy in Palestine. Epiphanius, Rufinus, and Jerome, a.d. 394-399
142. The Origenistic Controversy in Egypt and Constantinople. Theophilus and Chrysostom a.d. 399-407
143. General View. Alexandrian and Antiochian Schools
144. The Apollinarian Heresy, a.d. 362-381
145. The Nestorian Controversy, a.d. 428-431
146. The Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, a.d. 431. The Compromise
147. The Nestorians
148. The Eutychian Controversy. The Council of Robbers, a.d. 449
149. The Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451
150. The Orthodox Christology--Analysis and Criticism
151. The Monophysite Controversies
152. The Three, Chapters, and the Fifth Ecumenical Council, A.D. 553
153. The Monophysite Sects: Jacobites, Copts, Abyssinians, Armenians, Maronites
154. Character of the Pelagian Controversy
155. External History of the Pelagian Controversy, A.D. 411-431
156. The Pelagian Controversy in Palestine
157. Position of the Roman Church. Condemnation of Pelagianism
158. The Pelagian System: Primitive State and Freedom of Man; the Fall
159. The Pelagian System Continued: Doctrine, of Human Ability and Divine Grace
160. The Augustinian System: The Primitive State of Man, and Free Will
161. The Augustinian System: The Fall and its Consequences
162. The Augustinian System: Original Sin, and the Origin of the Human Soul
163. Arguments for the Doctrine of Original Sin and Hereditary Guilt
164. Answers to Pelagian Objections
165. Augustine's Doctrine of Redeeming Grace
166. The Doctrine of Predestination
167. Semi-Pelagianism
168. Victory of Semi-Augustinianism. Council of Orange, A.D. 529
169. Eusebius of Caesarea
170. The Church Historians after Eusebius
171. Athanasius the Great
172. Basil the Great
173. Gregory of Nyssa
174. Gregory Nazianzen
175. Didymus of Alexandria
176. Cyril of Jerusalem
177. Epiphanius
178. John Chrysostom
179. Cyril of Alexandria
180. Ephraem the Syrian
181. Lactantius
182. Hilary of Poitiers
183. Ambrose
184. Jerome as a Divine and Scholar
185. The Works of Jerome
186. Augustine
187. The Works of Augustine
188. The Influence of Augustine upon Posterity and his Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism
189. Addenda Et Corrigenda
190. Addenda to the Fifth Edition. 1893
191. Addenda Et Corrigenda