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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 311–600

Philip Schaff · 1884

Volume 3 of Schaff's History of the Christian Church, the classic multi-volume history in English: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 311–600.

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From the opening: From Constantine the Great to Gregory the Great

a. d. 311-590.

Sources

I. Christian Sources: (a) The Acts Of Councils; in the Collectiones conciliorum of Hardouin, Par. 1715 sqq. 12 vols. fol.; Mansi, Flor. et Ven. 1759 sqq. 31 vols. fol.; Fuchs: Bibliothek der Kirchenversammlungen des 4ten und 5ten Jahrh. Leipz. 1780 sqq.; and Bruns: Biblioth. eccl. vol. i. Canones Apost. et Conc. saec. iv.-vii. Berol. 1839.

(b) The Imperial Laws and Decrees referring to the church, in the Codex Theodosianus, collected a.d. 438, the Codex Justinianeus, collected in 529, and the Cod. repetitae praelectionis of 534.

(c) The Official Letters of popes (in the Bullarium Romanum), patriarchs, and bishops.

(d) The writings of all the Church Fathers from the beginning of the 4th century to the end of the 6th. Especially of Eusebius, Athanasius, Basil, the two Gregories, the two Cyrils, Chrysostom, and Theodoret, of the Greek church; and Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Leo the Great, of the Latin. Comp. the Benedictine Editions of the several Fathers; the Maxima Bibliotheca veterum Patrum, Lugd. 1677 sqq. (in all 27 vols. fol.), vols. iii.-xi.; Gallandi: Biblioth. vet. Patrum, etc. Ven. 1765 sqq. (14 vols. fol.), vols. iv.-xii.

(e) Contemporary Church Historians, (1) of the Greek church: Eusebius of Caesarea ( about 340): the ninth and tenth books of his H. E. down to 324, and his biography of Constantine the Great, see § 2 infra; Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople: Histor. ecclesiast. libri vii, a.d. 306-439; Hermias Sozomen of Constantinople: H. eccl. l. ix, a.d. 323-423; Theodoret, bishop of Cyros in Mesopotamia: H. eccl. l. v, a.d. 325-429; the Arian Philostorgius: H. eccl. l. xii, a.d. 318-425, extant only in extracts in Photius Cod. 40; Theodorus Lector, of Constantinople, epitomizer of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret, continuing the latter down to 518, preserved in fragments by Nicephorus Callistus; Evagrius of Antioch: H. eccl. l. vi, a.d. 431-594; Nicephorus Callistus (or Niceph. Callisti), about 1330, author of a church history in 23 books, to a.d. 911 (ed. Fronto Ducaeus, Par. 1630). The historical works of these Greek writers, excepting the last, are also published together under the title: Historiae ecclesiasticae Scriptores, etc., Graec. et Lat., with notes by H. Valesius (and G. Reading), Par. 1659-1673; and Cantabr. 1720, 3 vols. fol. (2) Of the Latin church historians few are important: Rufinus, presb. of Aquileia…

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Contents (59 sections)

  1. About this edition
  2. Title page
  3. Preface to the Third Revision
  4. Preface
  5. From Constantine the Great to Gregory the Great
  6. Chapter I
  7. Chapter I (continued)
  8. Chapter I (continued)
  9. Chapter II
  10. Chapter III
  11. Chapter III (continued)
  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 V (continued)
  21. Chapter V (continued)
  22. Chapter V (continued)
  23. Chapter VI
  24. Chapter VII
  25. Chapter VII (continued)
  26. Chapter VII (continued)
  27. Chapter VII (continued)
  28. Chapter VII (continued)
  29. Chapter VII (continued)
  30. Chapter VII (continued)
  31. Chapter VIII
  32. Chapter VIII (continued)
  33. Chapter VIII (continued)
  34. Chapter IX
  35. General Literature of the Arian Controversies
  36. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  37. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  38. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  39. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  40. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  41. General Literature of the Arian Controversies (continued)
  42. Works on the Pelagian Controversy in General
  43. Works on the Pelagian Controversy in General (continued)
  44. Works on the Pelagian Controversy in General (continued)
  45. Works on the Pelagian Controversy in General (continued)
  46. Chapters 1–X
  47. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature
  48. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  49. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  50. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  51. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  52. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  53. Church Fathers, and Theological Literature (continued)
  54. Appendix to the Revised Edition, 1884
  55. Addenda Et Corrigenda
  56. List of Popes and Emperors
  57. Addenda to the Fifth Edition
  58. Appendix to the Revised Edition, 1884
  59. Addenda Et Corrigenda

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Philip Schaff. History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, A.D. 311–600. CCEL, 1884. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc3
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