The History of the Christian Church : : From the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Leo the Great, A.D. 461 / / F. J. Foakes-Jackson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Foakes-Jackson, F. J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Jennings, A. C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (610 p.)

The history of Christianity through the reign of Pope Leo I. With appendices on the Gnostic sects and on the Roman catacombs

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION -- SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS -- DATES OF IMPORTANT EVENTS, ETC -- TABLE OF CONTEMPORARY EMPERORS AND BISHOPS OF ROME -- HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH -- CHAPTER I. THE PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER II. THE TIMES OF THE CHRIST -- CHAPTER III. THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES. -- CHAPTER IV. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT -- CHAPTER V. THE CONQUEST OF HEATHENISM BY CHRISTIANITY -- CHAPTER VI. THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS -- CHAPTER VII. ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLES OF GNOSTICISM -- CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN THE SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES -- CHAPTER IX. CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES -- CHAPTER X. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH -- CHAPTER XI. THE CHURCHES OF ROME, CARTHAGE AND ALEXANDRIA -- CHAPTER XII. CONSTANTINE IN THE WEST. THE EMPIRE AND THE CHURCH -- CHAPTER XIII. ARIANISM AND THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA -- CHAPTER XIV. THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY TO a.d. 361 -- CHAPTER XV. JULIAN AND THE PAGAN REACTION -- CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION OF THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY IN THE EMPIRE -- CHAPTER XVII. THE REIGN OF THEODOSIUS AND THE FALL OF PAGANISM -- CHAPTER XVIII. THE EASTERN CHURCH AND THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERAL COUNCILS -- CHAPTER XIX. THE WESTERN CHURCH -- APPENDIX A. ON THE OPHITES, BASILIDES AND VALENTINUS -- APPENDIX B. ROMAN CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES -- INDEX