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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 2: Ante-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 100–325

Philip Schaff · 1883

Volume 2 of Schaff's History of the Christian Church, the classic multi-volume history in English: Ante-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 100–325.

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From the opening: Chapter I

Chapter I

Spread of Christianity

§ 3. Literature.

I. Sources.

No statistics or accurate statements, but only scattered hints in

Pliny (107): Ep. x. 96 sq. (the letter to Trajan). Ignatius (about 110): Ad Magnes. c. 10. Ep. ad Diogn. (about 120) c. 6.

Justin Martyr (about 140): Dial. 117; Apol. I. 53.

Irenaeus (about 170): Adv. Haer. I. 10; III. 3, 4; v. 20, etc.

Tertullian (about 200): Apol. I. 21, 37, 41, 42; Ad Nat. I. 7; Ad Scap. c. 2, 5; Adv. Jud. 7, 12, 13.

Origen (d. 254): Contr. Cels. I, 7, 27; II. 13, 46; III. 10, 30; De Princ. l. IV. c. 1, § 2; Com. in Matth. p. 857, ed. Delarue.

Eusebius (d. 340): Hist. Eccl III. 1; v. 1; vii, 1; viii. 1, also books ix. and x. RUFINUS: Hist. Eccles. ix. 6.

Augustin (d. 430): De Civitate Dei. Eng. translation by M. Dods, Edinburgh, 1871; new ed. (in Schaff's "Nicene and Post-Nicene Library"), N. York, 1887.

II. Works.

Mich. Le Quien (a learned Dominican, d. 1733): Oriens Christianus. Par. 1740. 3 vols. fol. A complete ecclesiastical geography of the East, divided into the four patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

Mosheim: Historical Commentaries, etc. (ed. Murdock) I. 259-290.

Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chap. xv.

A. Beugnot: Histoire de la destruction du paganisme en Occident. Paris 1835, 2 vols. Crowned by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-letters.

Etienne Chastel: Histoire de la destruction du paganisme dans I' empire d' Orient. Paris 1850. Prize essay of the Académie.

Neander: History of the Christian Relig. and Church (trans. of Torrey), I. 68-79

Wiltsch: Handbuch der kirchl. Geographie u. Statistik. Berlin 1846. I. p. 32 sqq.

Chs. Merivale: Conversion of the Roman Empire (Boyle Lectures for 1864), republ. N. York 1865. Comp. also his History of the Romans under the Empire, which goes from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius, Lond. & N. York, 7 vols.

Edward A. Freeman: The Historical Geography of Europe. Lond. & N. York 1881. 2 vols. (vol. I. chs. II. & III. pp. 18-71.)

Comp. Friedländer, Sittengesch. Roms. III. 517 sqq.; and Renan: Marc-Aurèle. Paris 1882, ch. xxv. pp. 447-464 (Statistique et extension géographique du Christianisme).

V. Schultze: Geschichte des Untergangs des griech-römischen. Heidenthums. Jena, 1887.

§ 4. Hindrances and Helps.

For the first three centuries Christianity was placed in the most unfavorable circumstances, that it might display its moral power, and gain its victory over the…

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Contents (51 sections)

  1. About this edition
  2. Title page
  3. Preface to the Third Edition Revised
  4. Preface to the Second Edition
  5. Ante-Nicene Christianity
  6. Death of John to Constantine the Great
  7. Chapter I
  8. Chapter II
  9. Chapter II (continued)
  10. Chapter II (continued)
  11. Chapter III
  12. Chapter III (continued)
  13. Chapter IV
  14. Chapter IV (continued)
  15. Chapter IV (continued)
  16. Chapter IV (continued)
  17. Chapter V
  18. Chapter V (continued)
  19. Chapter V (continued)
  20. Chapter VI
  21. Chapter VII
  22. Chapter VII (continued)
  23. Christian Life in Contrast with Pagan Corruption
  24. Christian Life in Contrast with Pagan Corruption (continued)
  25. Christian Life in Contrast with Pagan Corruption (continued)
  26. Christian Life in Contrast with Pagan Corruption (continued)
  27. Chapter IX
  28. Chapter IX (continued)
  29. Chapter XI
  30. Chapter XI (continued)
  31. Chapter XI (continued)
  32. Chapter XI (continued)
  33. Chapter XII
  34. Chapter XII (continued)
  35. Chapter XII (continued)
  36. Chapter XII (continued)
  37. Chapter XII (continued)
  38. Chapter XIII
  39. Chapter XIII (continued)
  40. Canon R. Travers Smith: St. Ignatius in Smith and Wace III. (1882), 209-223. For the…
  41. Canon R. Travers Smith: St. Ignatius in Smith and Wace III. (1882), 209-223. For the… (continued)
  42. Canon R. Travers Smith: St. Ignatius in Smith and Wace III. (1882), 209-223. For the… (continued)
  43. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.…
  44. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  45. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  46. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  47. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  48. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  49. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  50. Epistola Ad Diognetum, ed. Otto (with Lat. transl., introduction and critical notes), ed.… (continued)
  51. Canon, v.xiv.ii-p0.1, v.xiv.ii-p26.2

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