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FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT. a.d. 311–590.
DOWNFALL OF HEATHENISM AND VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY N THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
§ 2. Constantine The Great. a.d. 306–337.
§ 3. The Sons of Constantine. a.d. 337–361.
§ 4. Julian the Apostate, and the Reaction of Paganism. a.d. 361–363.
§ 5. From Jovian to Theodosius. a.d. 363–392.
§ 6. Theodosius the Great and his Successors. a.d. 392–550.
§ 7. The Downfall of Heathenism.
CHAPTER II. THE LITERARY TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY OVER GREEK AND ROMAN HEATHENISM.
§ 8. Heathen Polemics. New Objections.
§ 9. Julian’s Attack upon Christianity.
§ 10. The Heathen Apologetic Literature.
§ 11. Christian Apologists and Polemics.
§ 12. Augustine’s City of God. Salvianus.
ALLIANCE OF CHURCH AND STATE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC MORALS AND RELIGION.
§ 13. The New Position of the, Church in the Empire.
§ 14. Rights and Privileges of the Church. Secular Advantages.
§ 15. Support of the Clergy.
§ 16. Episcopal Jurisdiction and Intercession.
§ 17. Legal Sanction of Sunday.
§ 18. Influence of Christianity on Civil Legislation. The Justinian Code.
§ 19. Elevation of Woman and the Family.
§ 20. Social Reforms. The Institution of Slavery.
§ 21. Abolition of Gladiatorial Shows.
§ 22. Evils of the Union of Church and State. Secularization of the Church.
§ 23. Worldliness and Extravagance.
§ 24. Byzantine Court Christianity.
§ 25. Intrusion of Politics into Religion.
§ 26. The Emperor-Papacy and the Hierarchy.
§ 27. Restriction of Religious Freedom, and Beginnings of Persecution of Heretics.
§ 28. Origin of Christian Monasticism. Comparison with other forms of Asceticism.
§ 29. Development of Monasticism.
§ 30. Nature and Aim of Monasticism.
§ 31. Monasticism and the Bible.
§ 32. Lights and Shades of Monastic Life.
§ 33. Position of Monks in the Church.
§ 34. Influence and Effect of Monasticism.
§ 35. Paul of Thebes and St. Anthony.
§ 36. Spread of Anchoretism. Hilarion.
§ 37. St. Symeon and the Pillar Saints.
§ 38. Pachomius and the Cloister life.
§ 39. Fanatical and Heretical Monastic Societies in The East.
§ 40. Monasticism in the West. Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Martin of Tours.
§ 41. St. Jerome as a Monk.
§ 43. Benedict of Nursia.
§ 44. The Rule of St. Benedict.
§ 45. The Benedictines. Cassiodorus.
§ 46. Opposition to Monasticism. Jovinian.
§ 47. Helvidius, Vigilantius, and Aerius.
THE HIERARCHY AND POLITY OF THE CHURCH.
§ 48. Schools of the Clergy.
§ 49. Clergy and Laity. Elections.
§ 50. Marriage and Celibacy of the Clergy.
§ 51. Moral Character of the Clergy in general.
§ 52. The Lower Clergy.
§ 54. Organization of the Hierarchy: Country Bishop, City Bishops, and Metropolitans.
§ 56. Synodical Legislation on the Patriarchal Power and Jurisdiction.
§ 57. The Rival Patriarchs of Old and New Rome.
§ 58. The Latin Patriarch.
§ 59. Conflicts and Conquests of the Latin Patriarchate.
§ 61. Opinions of the Fathers.
§ 62. The Decrees of Councils on the Papal Authority.
§ 63. Leo the Great. a.d. 440–461.
§ 64. The Papacy from Leo I to Gregory I. a.d. 461–590.
§ 65. The Synodical System. The Ecumenical Councils.
§ 67. Books of Ecclesiastical Law.
§ 68. Decline of Discipline.
§ 69. The Donatist Schism. External History.
§ 70. Augustine and the Donatists. Their Persecution and Extinction.
§ 71. Internal History of the Donatist Schism. Dogma of the Church.
§ 72. The Roman Schism of Damasus and Ursinus.
§ 73. The Meletian Schism at Antioch.
PUBLIC WORSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.
§ 74. The Revolution in Cultus.
§ 75. The Civil and Religious Sunday.
§ 76. The Church Year.
§ 77. The Christmas Cycle.
§ 78. The Easter Cycle.
§ 79. The Time of the Easter Festival.
§ 80. The Cycle of Pentecost.
§ 81. The Exaltation of the Virgin Mariology.
§ 83. The Festivals of Mary.
§ 84. The Worship of Martyrs and Saints.
§ 85. Festivals of the Saints.
§ 86. The Christian Calendar. The Legends of the Saints. The Acta Sanctorum.
§ 87. Worship of Relics. Dogma of the Resurrection. Miracles of Relics.
§ 88. Observations on the Miracles of the Nicene Age.
§ 89. Processions and Pilgrimages.
§ 90. Public Worship of the Lord’s Day. Scripture-Reading and Preaching.
§ 91. The Sacraments in General.
§ 95. The Sacrament of the Eucharist.
§ 96. The Sacrifice of the Eucharist.
§ 97. The Celebration o f the Eucharist.
§ 98. The Liturgies. Their Origin and Contents.
§ 99. The Oriental Liturgies.
§ 100. The Occidental Liturgies.
§ 102. Religion and Art.
§ 104. The Consecration of Churches.
§ 105. Interior Arrangement of Churches.
§ 106. Architectural Style. The Basilicas.
§ 107. The Byzantine Style.
§ 108. Baptisteries. Grave-Chapels, and Crypts.
§ 109. Crosses and Crucifixes.
§ 110. Images of Christ.
§ 111. Images of Madonna and Saints.
§ 113. Church Poetry and Music.
§ 114. The Poetry of the Oriental Church.
§ 115. The Latin Hymn.
§ 116. The Latin Poets and Hymns.
THEOLOGY. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECUMENICAL ORTHODOXY.
§ 117. General Observations. Doctrinal Importance of the Period. Influence of the Ancient Philosophy.
§ 118. Sources of Theology. Scripture and Tradition.
I. – The Trinitarian Controversies.
General Literature of the Arian Controversy.
§ 119. The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318–325.
§ 120. The Council of Nicaea, 325.
§ 121. The Arian and Semi-Arian Reaction, a.d. 325–361.
§ 122. The Final Victory of Orthodoxy, and the Council of Constantinople, 381.
§ 123. The Theological Principles involved: Import of the Controversy.
§ 126. Revived Sabellianism. Marcellus and Photinus.
§ 127. The Nicene Doctrine of the Consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
§ 128. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit.
§ 129. The Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creed.
§ 130. The Nicene, Doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinitarian Terminology.
§ 131. The Post-Nicene Trinitarian Doctrine of Augustine.
§ 132. The Athanasian Creed.
II. – The Origenistic Controversies.
§133. The Orgenistic Controversy in Palestine. Epiphanius, Rufinus, and Jerome, a.d. 394–399.
§ 134. The Origenistic Controversy in Egypt and Constantinople. Theophilus and Chrysostom a.d. 399–407.
III. – The Christological Controversies.
§ 135. General View. Alexandrian and Antiochian Schools.
§ 136. The Apollinarian Heresy, a.d. 362–381.
§ 137. The Nestorian Controversy, a.d. 428–431.
§ 138. The Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, a.d. 431. The Compromise.
§ 140. The Eutychian Controversy. The Council of Robbers, a.d. 449.
§ 141. The Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, a.d. 451.
§ 142. The Orthodox Christology—Analysis and Criticism.
§ 143. The Monophysite Controversies.
§ 144. The Three, Chapters, and the Fifth Ecumenical Council, a.d. 553.
§ 145. The Monophysite Sects: Jacobites, Copts, Abyssinians, Armenians, Maronites.
IV. – The Anthropological Controversies.
Works on the Pelagian Controversy in General.
§ 146. Character of the Pelagian Controversy.
§ 147. External History of the Pelagian Controversy, a.d. 411–431.
§ 148. The Pelagian Controversy in Palestine.
§ 149. Position of the Roman Church. Condemnation of Pelagianism.
§ 150. The Pelagian System: Primitive State and Freedom of Man; the Fall.
§ 151. The Pelagian System Continued: Doctrine, of Human Ability and Divine Grace.
§ 152. The Augustinian System: The Primitive State of Man, and Free Will.
§ 153. The Augustinian System: The Fall and its Consequences.
§ 154. The Augustinian System: Original Sin, and the Origin of the Human Soul.
§ 155. Arguments for the Doctrine of Original Sin and Hereditary Guilt.
§ 156. Answers to Pelagian Objections.
§ 157. Augustine’s Doctrine of Redeeming Grace.
§ 158. The Doctrine of Predestination.
§ 160. Victory of Semi-Augustinianism. Council of Orange, a.d. 529.
CHURCH FATHERS, AND THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
§ 161. Eusebius of Caesarea.
§ 162. The Church Historians after Eusebius.
§ 163. Athanasius the Great.
§ 164. Basil the Great.
§ 165. Gregory of Nyssa.
§ 167. Didymus of Alexandria.
§ 168. Cyril of Jerusalem.
§ 171. Cyril of Alexandria.
§ 172. Ephraem the Syrian.
§ 174. Hilary of Poitiers.
§ 176. Jerome as a Divine and Scholar.
§ 177. The Works of Jerome.
§ 179. The Works of Augustine.
§ 180. The Influence of Augustine upon Posterity and his Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism.
Appendix to the Revised Edition of 1884. Addenda et Corrigenda.
Alphabetical Index to the Third Volume.

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