Sketches of Church History, From Ad 33 to the Reformation

By Robertson, J. C.

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Title:	Sketches of Church History, From Ad 33 to the Reformation
Author:	Robertson, J. C.
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Excerpt: The beginning of the Christian Church is reckoned from the great day on which the Holy Ghost came down, according as our Lord had promised to His Apostles. At that time, ?Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven,? were gathered together at Jerusalem, to keep the Feast of Pentecost (or Feast of Weeks), which was one of the three holy seasons at which God required His people to appear before Him in the place which He had chosen (Deuteronomy xvi. 16). Many of these devout men there converted by what they then saw and heard, to believe the Gospel; and, when they returned to their own countries, they carried back with them the news of the wonderful things which had taken place at Jerusalem. After this, the Apostles went forth ?into all the world,? as their Master had ordered them, to ?preach the Gospel to every creature? (St Mark xvi. 15). The Book of Acts tells us something of what they did, and we may learn something more about it from the Epistles. And, although this be but a small part of the whole, it will give us a notion of the rest, if we consider that, while St. Paul was preaching in Asia Minor, Greece, and at Rome, the other Apostles were busily doing the same work in other countries.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2 Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14 Chapter 1. The Age of the Apostles (A.D. 33?100). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14 Chapter 2. St. Ignatius (AD 116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 16 Chapter 3. St. Justin Martyr (AD 166). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18 Chapter 4. St. Polycarp (AD 166). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20 Chapter 5. The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne (AD 177). . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21 Chapter 6. Tertullian; Perpetua and Companions (AD 181?206. . . . . . p. 22 Chapter 7. Origen (AD 185?254). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24 Chapter 8. St. Cyprian, Part I (AD 200?253). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 26 p. 29 Chapter 9. From Gallienus to the End of the Last Persecution (AD 261?313). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 10. Constantine the Great (AD 313?337). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33 Chapter 11. The Council of Nicaea (AD 325). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 Chapter 12. St. Athanasius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 37 Chapter 13. The Monks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 43 p. 47 Chapter 14. St. Basil and St. Gregory of Naziansum; Council of Constantinople. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 15. St. Ambrose (AD 374?397. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 50 Chapter 16. The Temple of Serapis (AD 391). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52 Chapter 17. Church Government.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 54 Chapter 18. Christian Worship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 56 Chapter 19. Arcadius and Honorius (AD 395?423). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60 Chapter 20. St. John Chrysostom (AD 347?407). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 62 Chapter 21. St. Augustine (AD 354?430). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 68 Chapter 22. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon (AD 431?451). . . . . . p. 79 Chapter 23. Fall of the Western Empire (AD 451?476). . . . . . . . . . . . p. 80 Chapter 24. Conversion of the Barbarians; Christianity in Britain. . . . . . p. 81 Chapter 25. Scotland and Ireland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 82 Chapter 26. Clovis (AD 496). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 84 Chapter 27. Justinian (AD 527?565). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 86 Chapter 28. Nestorians and Monophysites.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 87 Chapter 29. St. Benedict (AD 480?529). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 88