Short history of the early church . and Gnosticism 29 X. The Pagan Literary Attack 35 XI. The Christian Defenders 39 XII. The Christian Schools 43 XIII. Liberation under Constantine 46 XIV. Keaction under Julian 50 XV. The Montanistic Reform 54 XVI. Controversies Concerning Christ 57 XVII. The Later Controversies 60 XVIII. Ecclesiastical Schisms 67 XIX. The Scriptures and Tradition 70 XX. Apocryphal Writings 75 XXI. Theology during the Early Period. ... 78XXII. Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy 86 VI CONTENTS. CnAPTER PAGE XXIII. Sacred Seasons and Public Worship ... 93 XXIV. Ecc
Short history of the early church . and Gnosticism 29 X. The Pagan Literary Attack 35 XI. The Christian Defenders 39 XII. The Christian Schools 43 XIII. Liberation under Constantine 46 XIV. Keaction under Julian 50 XV. The Montanistic Reform 54 XVI. Controversies Concerning Christ 57 XVII. The Later Controversies 60 XVIII. Ecclesiastical Schisms 67 XIX. The Scriptures and Tradition 70 XX. Apocryphal Writings 75 XXI. Theology during the Early Period. ... 78XXII. Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy 86 VI CONTENTS. CnAPTER PAGE XXIII. Sacred Seasons and Public Worship ... 93 XXIV. Ecclesiastical Discipline 97 XXV. Christian Life and Usages 100 XXVI. The Church in the Catacombs 106 XXVII. Monasticism 114 XXVIII. The Age op Gregory the Great .... 117 XXIX. The Expansion of Christianity 119 XXX. The Close of the Early Period. .... 125 INDEX 129 ILLUSTRATIONS. Constantinople Frontispiece. Gnostic Symbols Page 34 The Labarum 47 St. Sophia, at Constantinople 49 Country op the Nestorians To face 62 Roman Catacombs 109. SHORT HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH. 30-750. Chapter I. THE CHUKCII AND ITS HISTORY. 1. The History of the Church. The visible Church con-sists of the organized believers in Christ and the follow-ers of his life. General history reveals the constant pres-ence of a superintending Providence. The rise and fallof nations is not an idle play of human passions. Schil-lers aphorism is a just recognition of Gods constantwatchfulness and justice: The w^orlds history is theworlds judgment. The wild currents have neverbeen permitted to flow on without divine the hour came for the wrong to cease, the con-trolling hand intervened. The result was always thetriumph of the right. In the history of the Churchthe divine superintendence has been far more promi-nent. While, in secular history, the spiritual forces laylargely in the background, in the life o2 the Churchthey have come out boldly into the clear often in the wrong, and
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