HISTORY OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Philip Schaff Editor)


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THIRD PERIOD

THE CHURCH IN UNION WITH THE ROMAN EMPIRE

FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT.

A.D. 311–590.


CHAPTER I. DOWNFALL OF HEATHENISM AND VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

CHAPTER II. THE LITERARY TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY OVER GREEK AND ROMAN HEATHENISM.

CHAPTER III. ALLIANCE OF CHURCH AND STATE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC MORALS AND RELIGION.

CHAPTER IV. MONASTICISM.

CHAPTER V. THE HIERARCHY AND POLITY OF THE CHURCH.

CHAPTER VI. CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND SCHISMS.

CHAPTER VII. PUBLIC WORSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.

CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTIAN ART.

CHAPTER IX. THEOLOGY. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECUMENICAL ORTHODOXY.

I. – The Trinitarian Controversies.

II. – The Origenistic Controversies.

III. – The Christological Controversies.

IV. – The Anthropological Controversies.

 CHAPTER X. CHURCH FATHERS, AND THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE.

I.—The Greek Fathers.

II.—The Latin Fathers.