A History of the Church, from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation

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Baldwin and Cradock, 1831 - Church history - 738 pages

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Victor Bishop of Rome addressed an order to the Asiatic Bishops
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On the Numbers Discipline Doctrine and Morality of
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Progress of Christianity from 200 till Constantines
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Arius promulgated his opinions at Alexandria and had many fol
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Persecutions of several Roman Emperors
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Whether the persecution of Nero was general or confined to Rome
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These persecutions were not upon the whole unfavourable to
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On the Heresies of the three first Centuries
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The difficulty with which Constantius accomplished his depo
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PART II
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An inquiry into the miracle of the luminous cross it rests on very
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The Council of Rimini established Arianism or rather Semiari
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or 95 The grandsons of St Jude were brought before Domitian
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It was then dissolved as having done all that was necessary for
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Damasus at Rome and Ambrose at Milan zealously defended
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Honorius abolished the gladiatorial games
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God 1345
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Leo the Great was raised to the See of Rome zealous in the
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From the death of Justinian to that of Charlemagne 567814
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638
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nople 1256
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Pontificate of Gregory
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Of his claim to the title of Great and the mischief occasioned
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St Austin with forty Benedictines introduced Christianity into
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Charlemagne was proclaimed Emperor of the West He exerted
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On the Dissensions of the Church from the age of Constantine
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Vigilantius wrote against the temples of martyrs prodigies vigils
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On the Schism between the Greek and Latin Churches
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Photius was raised to the See of Constantinople and then he
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Review of the AnteNicene Church
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The Roman Synod against Novatian was attended by sixty Bishops
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PART III
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about A law for the quadripartite division of the funds was enacted
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On the Government and Projects of the Church during the ninth
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et seq On the deposition penance and temporary humiliation
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On the Opinions Literature Discipline and external
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A controversy rose about the baptism of heretics in which Ste
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The teachers of philosophy were instrumental in bringing Diocle
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of investiture The ceremony of coronation was to follow
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The early unpopularity of the Christians is accounted for by
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He entered the lists in public disputation against Abelard at Sens
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The council of Toulouse established a sort of committee of Inquisi
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Pierre de Bruys originated the sect of Petrobrussians who rejected
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Alexander III published in a Council at Tours an edict against
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For what reasons any general notice of the Monastic Orders
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He was condemned by the General Council of Ephesus and died
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Ulphilas converted the Goths to Arianism other barbarians sub
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Benedict of Nursia instituted a new order
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The Cistertian Order was founded in its neighbourhood and
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They were subsequently reformed by Nicholas II and were first
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Albert Patriarch of Jerusalem gave a Rule to the Carmelites
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From the Death of Innocent to that of Boniface VIII
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Gregory X a pious enthusiast was raised to the See and
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Boniface published the bull Clericis Laicos against all who should
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The Monophysite opinions of Eutyches were confirmed in a Council
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PART V
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SECTION II
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The imputed opinions and savage persecution of Dulcinus
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delivered a Rule and established the obligation of a vow
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And proposed as most likely to be effectual the method of Cession 5189
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et seq Justinian sustained the Catholics
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The bull by which he dissolved the Council
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Jan 10 After having been cited before the Council and con
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History of the Hussites
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The Council of Toledo extirpated Arianism from Spain and
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July 6 The sentence passed on him his degradation and exe
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The Council was removed to Florence and after great debates
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Zeno published his Henoticon or Edict of Union 185
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His overtures of alliance against Charles VIII to the Sultan Bajazet
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preached a crusade against Heretics Innocent IV
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On some of the essential differences between the Greek and Latin
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Leo the Isaurian attacked the worship of images established in
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Page 260 - And I saw an Angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Page 298 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 507 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Page 567 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.
Page 436 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 31 - From these facts, it is evident, that, first, about the end of the second, and the beginning of the third century...
Page 152 - ... for the bodies of the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, are so resplendent with miracles and terrific prodigies in their own Churches, that no one can approach them without great awe, even for the purpose of adoring them. When my predecessor, of happy memory, wished to change some silver ornament which was placed over the most holy body of St. Peter, though at the distance of almost fifteen feet, a warning of no small terror appeared to him. Even I myself wished to make some alteration near the...
Page 163 - Whether the divine law did not permit a valiant and warlike people to dethrone a pusillanimous and indolent monarch, who was incapable of discharging any of the functions of royalty, and to substitute in his place one more worthy to rule, and who had already rendered most important services to the state?
Page 13 - ... at length these men, though really criminal, and deserving exemplary punishment, began to be commiserated as people who were destroyed, not out of regard to the public welfare, but only to gratify the cruelty of one man" ("Annals,
Page 10 - ... every rank, of both sexes likewise, are accused, and will be accused. Nor has the contagion of this superstition seized cities only, but the lesser towns also, and the open country.

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