Category: Church History

Thierry. St. Jean Chrysostome et l’impératrice Eudoxie : la société chrétienne en Orient. 1874.

Francisco Arriaga / / Church History, Graeca, Patrologia, Studia/Monographiae

RÉCITS DE L’HISTOIRE ROMAINE
AU Ve SIèCLE

ST JEAN CHRYSOSTOME

ET

L’IMPÉRATRICE EUDOXIE

LA SOCIÉTÉ CHRÉTIENNE EN ORIENT

PAR AMÉDÉE THIERRY
Membre de l’Institut.

Deuxième édition.

PARIS
LIBRAIRIE ACADÉMIQUE
DIDIER ET Ce, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS
QUAI DES AUGUSTINS, 35
1874

La vie publique de Jean Chrysostome, archevêque de Constantinople et le prince des orateurs de l’Église d’Orient, se compose de deux grands événements liés de la façon la plus étroite à l’histoire du Ve siècle : d’abord cette querelle avec l’eunuque Eutrope, à propos de l’immunité des asiles, qui contribua puissamment à la chute du ministre d’Arcadius; puis sa lutte contre l’impératrice Eudoxie, qui attira sur sa tête des persécutions sans nombre , et enfin l’exil et la mort.
Le premier de ces événements a pris place dans un de nos précédents récits, celui qui concerne les trois ministres des iils de Théodose, Rufin, Eutrope et Stilicon, ces hommes si funestes à leurs maîtres, ut plus encore au monde romain. Le deuxième fera la matière des récits qui vont suivre.
La lutte entre Ghrysostome et la femme d’Arcadius fait partie de l’histoire générale, parce que l’univers romain y fut tout entier mêlé, l’Occident comme l’Orient, la vieille Rome comme la nouvelle, le pape comme les empereurs, les évêques comme les clercs des églises, le peuple comme les fonctionnaires et les courtisans : tout le monde, en un mot, y prit part dans un camp ou dans l’autre. Les ressorts de toutes les passions humaines, la haine, l’affection, l’envie, furent mis en jeu pour ou contre avec une égale intensité, au sein de la société chrétienne : les païens eux-mêmes s’émurent. Ce drame si varié dans ses péripéties, si tragique dans son dénoûment, fait donc passer sous nos yeux le tableau de cette société sons ses formes et dans ses conditions les plus diverses.
Saint Jérôme a été pour nous le sujet d’un travail analogue, mais relatif surtout à l’Occident. Nous avons montré se groupant autour de cet homme éminent par le génie, mais sans autorité directe sur les peuples, et simple prêtre, des individualités notables du patriciat, tout le clergé romain, et des femmes qui unissaient aux plus grands noms le savoir et la richesse. Toutefois le cadre du tableau était restreint, et les faits, si intéressants qu’ils fussent au point de vue humain, ne se rattachaient qu’imparfaitement aux grandes lignes de l’histoire.
Il en est autrement de Chrysostome. Tout dans la vie du patriarche de Constantinople est historique au premier chef, et sa personnalité qui se détache avec tant de relief au milieu des événements n’en saurait être séparée. Chrysostome, dans nos récits, est l’archevêque plutôt que l’orateur à qui sa douce et abondante élocution fit donner le surnom de bouche d’or. Homme du gouvernement épiscopal visà-vis de son clergé et des autres clergés d’Orient, il représenta vis-à-vis de l’empereur et de la cour l’autorité ecclésiastique dans ses droits réels comme dans ses écarts. A l’aide de ce double caractère, nous avons pu entrer dans l’analyse de la société orientale plus profondément que ne l’eût jamais permis l’histoire profane la plus détaillée.



Souter. The character and history of Pelagius’ Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul. 1916.

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THE CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF

PELAGIUS’ COMMENTARY ON THE

EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL

**

BY PROFESSOR A. SOUTER

Read March 15, 1916

NINE years ago, when last I had the honour to address the Academy, 1 I chose as my subject, ‘ The Commentary of Pelagius on the Epistles of Paul : The Problem of its Restoration ‘. In that lecture I endeavoured to sketch the history of the attempts to recover the lost commentary of Pelagius, the oldest extant book by a British author, and called attention to the anonymous MS., no. CXIX, of the Reichenau collection in the Grand-Ducal Library at Karlsruhe, which I claimed to be the only known example of the work in its original form. I also argued that it was the Vulgate text of the epistles that was employed by the author as the basis of his commentary, and suggested that this Reichenau MS. might thus be the best surviving authority for that text. It was at the same time my good fortune to prove for the first time that the related commentary, printed under the name of Primasius, was none other than the revision of the Pelagius commentary, which Cassiodorus and his pupils prepared. The lecture dealt also with other matters, which need not now be referred to.

Souter. The character and history of Pelagius’ Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul [1916].

Moore. The treatise of Novatian, On the Trinity. 1919.

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LITERATURE. SERIES II
LATIN TEXTS

THE TREATISE

OF NOVATIAN

ON THE TRINITY

By

HERBERT MOORE M. A.

SOCIETY FOR. PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London
The Macmillan Company. New York.

1919

It is hard to believe that the author of the treatise On the Trinity was simply an ambitious schemer, who adopted a popular theory to secure his own advancement. We may give him credit for having acted from the same zeal for the good of the Church and the glory of God which had led him previously to use his great abilities as a writer to explain the Catholic faith, his devotion to which was perfectly sincere. Religious speculations, some wild and fanciful, others deeply philosophical, were abroad in abundance, springing mostly from Greek or Eastern thinkers. Without the Church, some of these teachers tried to incorporate Christian elements into their systems ; while within, men who professed the faith had allowed these speculations to draw them from the faith as the Church understood it, into forms of opinion which the Church called heresy. Tertullian, in Africa, had written various treatises to purge the faith from these erroneous ideas, and to explain what it really is ; Novatian decided to do the same at Rome. He is the first great Roman writer; great, not only in his powers of thought, but in the cultured style, based upon his study of the best Latin authors, which he was able to devote to the expression of it.

Moore. The treatise of Novatian, On the Trinity (1919).

Neander. History of the planting and training of the Christian church by the Apostles : [with the author’s final additions, also, His Antignostikus; or, Spirit of Tertullian]. 1851.

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HISTORY

OF THE

PLANTING AND TRAINING

OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

BY

THE APOSTLES.

BY

DR. AUGUSTUS NEANDER,

ORDINARY PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN,
CONSISTORIAL COUNSELLOR, ETC.

TRANSLATED
FROM THE THIRD EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL GERMAN
BY J. R. RYLAND.

LONDON ;
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1851.

It was not my intention to give a complete history of the Apostolic age, but only what the title, advisedly selected, indicates. I have prefixed to it the Introduction from the first volume of my Church History, reserving the recasting of the whole work for a new edition, should God permit.

In reference to the arrangement of the whole plan, and the mutual relation of the parts of the representation, I must beg the reader to suspend his judgment awhile, till the completion of the whole by the publication of the second part.

It will be my constant aim to carry on to its conclusion the whole of the work I have undertaken on the history of the Church, if God con tinue to grant me strength and resolution for the purpose. Meanwhile, a brief compendium of Church History on the principles of my arrange ment, but enriched with literary notices, will be published. My dear friend, Professor Rheinwald, of Bonn, having been prevented by his new duties from executing this work, it has been undertaken at my request by another of my friends, Mr. Licentiate Vogt, already favourably known to the theological public by his share in editing the Homilarium, and still more commended to the public favour by his literary labours on the Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Life and Times of Gerson, Chancellor of Paris. May he receive from every quarter that public favour and encouragement which his character, acquirements, and performances deserve !



Marone. Esegesi biblica e Teologia sacramentaria nella prima fase della Controversia Donatista. 2006.

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ESEGESI BIBLICA E TEOLOGIA SACRAMENTARIA NELLA PRIMA FASE DELLA CONTROVERSIA DONATISTA

Paola Marone

REPORTATA 4 (2006) ISSN 2036637X

In Africa, mentre i donatisti per giustificare la liceità dello scisma si ispiravano direttamente a Cipriano e in molti casi estremizzavano e radicalizzavano le idee di quell’illustre Padre della Chiesa, i cattolici, stavano cominciando a guardare con favore alle deliberazioni della Chiesa di Roma. Tuttavia non sembra fuori luogo dire che per vari decenni gli scritti polemici dei dissidenti siano rimasti senza un’adeguata risposta, proprio perché tale risposta inevitabilmente avrebbe portato a rivedere, e forse anche mettere in discussione, l’autorità di Cipriano. Ottato, a quanto risulta dalle testimonianze antiche, per primo si cimentò nella confutazione di un’opera scritta da uno scismatico e in questo suo lavoro si confrontò con svariate tematiche di carattere storico e religioso, facendo sempre largo uso della Scrittura.

This article is cited and included here with the explicit and kind permit of it’s author. Please refer to Ms. Marone to any observation regarding this great work. All rights reserved.

Marone. Esegesi biblica e Teologia sacramentaria nella prima fase della Controversia Donatista. 2006.

Bruce. The Epistle to the Hebrews, the first apology for Christianity. An exegetical study. 1899.

Francisco Arriaga / / Church History, Studia/Monographiae

THE

EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

THE FIRST APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY
AN EXEGETICAL STUDY
BY
ALEXANDER BALMAIN BRUCE, D.D.
PROFESSOR OF APOLOGETICS AND NEW TESTAMENT EXEGESIS IN THE
FREE CHURCH COLLEGE, GLASGOW.
AUTHOR OF
“THE KINGDOM OF GOD” “ST. PAUL’S CONCEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY”
“THE TRAINING OF THE TWELVE” “THE HUMILIATION OF CHRIST”
“APOLOGETICS; OR, CHRISTIANITY DEFENSIVELY STATED”
ETC. ETC.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
153, 155, AND 157 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY
1899

This work is a companion to The Kingdom of God and St. Paul’s Conception of Christianity, published respectively in 1889 and 1894.
The greater part of the contents appeared in the pages of The Expositor in 1888, 1889, 1890. All has been carefully revised, some portions have been re-written, and a chapter on the theological import of the Epistle, entirely new, has been added at the end of the book. The recent literature of the subject has been duly taken into account in footnotes on important points connected with the exposition.
Among the works referred to in these new notes, the chief are the Commentaries of Westcott (1889), Vaughan (1890), Weiss (in Meyer), and von Soden (in Handcommentar). To these may be added the work of Ménégoz on the theology of the Epistle (La Theologie de L’Épitre aux Hebreux, 1894). It gives me pleasure to name here a book just published on the same subject by the Rev. George Milligan, son of the late Professor Milligan, some sheets of which I had an opportunity of reading while it was passing through the press.
I had expected, and even hoped, that recent publications on this important book of the New Testament would have made a new contribution to its interpretation superfluous. I cannot honestly say that I have found this to be the case. The last word has not yet been spoken. The interpretation of the letter has been carried to a high degree of perfection. But there is room and need for fresh work in the unveiling of the soul of this sacred writing, in the light of its author’s aim, which I take to be to show the excellence of Christianity to a community possessing a very defective insight into its true nature. It is indeed the first apology for Christianity, as indicated in my sub-title. Readers will judge how far I have succeeded in placing this view of the book on a solid foundation.
I can at least claim for this effort that it is not the product of a brief and hasty consideration. It is the mature fruit of study carried on for a period of thirty years—a fact which I deemed it not unfitting to commemorate in the form of a dedication to friends to whom my thoughts were communicated in their earliest shape.
I owe thanks to my esteemed colleague, Professor Denney, D.D., for assisting me in reading the proof sheets, and for offering some valuable suggestions.

A. B. BRUCE.

Glasgow, March 1899.

Harnack. Luke the physician, the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. 1911.

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NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
I

LUKE THE PHYSICIAN

THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRD GOSPEL

AND THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

BY
ADOLF HARNACK
PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN
TRANSLATED BY
THE REV. J. R. WILKINSON, M.A.
LATE SCHOLAR OF WORCESTER COLLEGE,
OXFORD, AND RECTOR OF WINFORD
THIRD IMPRESSION
WILLIAMS & NORGATE
14 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON
NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
1911

The great historical work, which has come down to us in two parts, the third gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, is anonymous, but the unanimous report of ecclesiastical tradition, which ascribes it to an author Luke by name, can be traced back to the middle of the second century. In fact, there is no justifiable reason for doubting that Justin already regarded the third gospel as the work of St. Luke (“Dial.” 103). Indeed, a further step backwards is permissible; for those who first formed the collection of four gospels—and this was done before the middle of the second century, perhaps long before—gave this gospel the inscription KATA LOTKAN. It is therefore probable that Marcion, who assailed the other gospels while he accepted and edited the third gospel, was already acquainted with the name Luke as the name of its author. This, however, does not admit of stringent proof, and one must therefore rest satisfied with the knowledge that the Lukan authorship has been universally accepted since the years 140-150 A.D.

Weizsäcker. The apostolic age of the Christian Church. 1907.

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THE APOSTOLIC AGE

OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

BY
CARL VON WEIZSÄCKER
PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN
TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION
BY
JAMES MILLAR, B.D.

THIRD EDITION

LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
14 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
New York : G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
1907

PREFACE BY THE EDITOR

The new series of translations by Messrs. Williams and Norgate auspiciously begins with Weizsacker’s great work on the Apostolic Age, of which the first volume now appears. This work is confessedly of exceptional value, exhibiting as it does not merely the learning we expect in a first-class German author, but a moderation and soundness of judgment which are by no means common either in Germany or anywhere else. It has the merit of being not only able and masterly, but extremely interesting, discussing a multitude of questions relating to the origin of the Christian Church in a manner fitted to engage the attention of general readers not less than of professional theologians. The style is luminous and easy, and the pages are not encumbered with learned foot-notes. On some subjects, as, e.g., the Resurrection of Christ and the historical value of the Book of Acts, readers may meet with views from which they earnestly dissent. But even there it will be found that the author’s treatment is scientific in spirit and reverent in tone. In the preface of his work on God and the Bible, the late Mr. Arnold pronounces Ferdinand Christian Baur an unsafe guide because of the ‘vigour and rigour’ characteristic of most German Biblical critics. Weizsacker compares very favourably with Baur in this respect. There is plenty of vigour in his book, but not nearly so much of the rigour of which Mr. Arnold complains.

Much pains have been taken to make the translation at once faithful to the author’s meaning and readable English.

A second volume, to appear in due course, will complete the work.

A. B. BRUCE.

Glasgow, December 1893.



Plummer. The church of the early Fathers; external history. 1890.

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THE CHURCH

OF THE

EARLY FATHERS

EXTERNAL HISTORY

BY

ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D.

MASTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DURHAM
FORMERLY FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD

FOURTH EDITION

LONDON
LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16 tn STREET
1890

The Christian Church has three ideals set before it in Scripture to be Universal, to be Holy, and to be One. It is to ‘ make disciples of all the nations.’ It is to be ‘ without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.’ It is to ‘ become one flock ‘ with a union between its members admitting of no lower standard than the Unity of the Divine Persons in the Godhead. The external history of the Church is the history of the attempt to realise the first of these three ideals; its internal history tells of the attempt to realise the second and third. The three taken together sum up what is meant by ecclesiastical history the history of the spread of Christianity and of the development of Christian life and Christian doctrine. Thus a convenient division of the subject is at once suggested. Only the first of these three points is treated in this handbook the progress of the Church in the attempt to become universal, including all that impeded that progress, especially literary attack and civil persecution. The worship and discipline of the Church and the development of its doctrine, though often touched upon, are reserved for treatment in a separate volume.

The present sketch is limited to the Ante-Nicene period, and indeed to only a portion of that. Neither the Apostolic Age nor the history of Arianism falls within its scope. Its limits are, roughly speaking, the second and third centuries, or, more exactly, the period from the death of St. John, about a.d. 100, to the Edict of Toleration published at Milan by Constantine and Licinius a.d. 312 or 318.

It is obvious that in a volume of this size nothing more than a sketch can be attempted ; but help will be offered to the student who desires to have fuller information and to examine original sources for himself. A list is given of some of the best and most easily accessible authorities, especially in the English language, together with the chief ancient witnesses from whom the information given by modern writers is ultimately derived. Perhaps in no branch of history is it more important to study original authorities than in the history of Christianity daring the second and third centuries. Neither in number nor in bulk are these sources so formidable as in the later periods of Church history ; so that the ordinary student may hope to do a good deal in the attempt to make himself acquainted with primary materials. Moreover, nearly all these early writings have been translated ; so that even those who are unable to read Latin or Greek are nevertheless able to obtain fairly accurate knowledge of what these early writers in their own words tell us. This handbook will have failed in one of its objects if it does not lead some of those who use it to check its statements by a comparison with standard works, and above all by an appeal to the original authorities.

As references are almost entirely forbidden by the plan of this series, the compiler of this volume is unable to express in detail his obligations to other writers.
They are very numerous to a large number of the works mentioned below, especially to those of Bishop Lightfoot and Dr. Schaff, and to the ‘ Dictionary of Christian Biography ‘ edited by Smith and Wace. An asterisk is prefixed to the name of modern writers whose writings are of special importance.

Mingana. Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Nicene Creed [Woodbroke Studies 5]. 1932.

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WOODBROOKE STUDIES

CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS IN SYRIAC, ARABIC,

AND GARSHUNI, EDITED AND TRANSLATED

WITH A CRITICAL APPARATUS

BY

A. MINGANA

VOLUME V

COMMENTARY OF THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA ON THE NICENE CREED

CAMBRIDGE

W. HEFFER & SONS LIMITED
1932

The present volume is the fifth in the series of Woodbrooke Studies, the contents of which are drawn from MSS. in my collection. Owing to the fact that I have relmquished ray duties in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, it was not foimd convenient to continue the publication of the ” Studies ” in serial parts in the ” Bulletin ” of that Library. Slight changes have accordingly been made in the preliminary matter as well as in the headings of the ” Studies,” and it is hoped that these will be found more suitable to works of this kind.

This volume contains the hitherto lost commentary of Theodore of Mopsuestia {c. 350-428) on the Nicene Creed, which is undoubtedly one of the most important theological works of the golden age of Christianity. In places I experienced some difficulty in following the author’s method of reasoning, but it may confidently be stated that the translation which I have adopted in the following pages reveals as accurately as possible the secret of the author’s argumentation, which is nearly always fresh and illuminating.

Short passages were by inadvertence omitted in the first part of the work, which was published in the January issue of the ” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library “. These have been inserted in the present edition together with some corrections.

It is a pleasing duty to offer here my sincerest thanks to Mr. ELdward Cadbury whose generosity has again made possible the publication of the ” Studies ” in their new form.

A. MINGANA.

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Tuker, Malleson. Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome. 1900.

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HANDBOOK TO CHRISTIAN

AND

ECCLESIASTICAL ROME

BY

M. A. R. TUKER

AND

HOPE MALLESON

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1900

PART I. THE CRISTIAN MONUMENTS OF ROME
PART II. THE LITURGY IN ROME
PART III. MONASTICISM IN ROME
PART IV. ECCLESIASTICAL ROME

PREFACE.

This Handbook is intended to give the visitor to Rome full information about the Christian side of its history, about Roman churches, ceremonies, and customs, which does not fall within the scope of such an excellent Handbook as that of Messrs. Murray’s general Guide.

It was to have formed one volume, but the matter gradually exceeded all limits ; and it is now hoped that this little series of books (of which the present is much the largest) may prove as convenient, dealing as each volume will do, with a subject complete in itself.

We cannot hope that among so much detail we have been able to avoid all error ; nor that we have always made the same choice as all our readers would have done, as to what pieces of information to give, and what to reluctantly withhold. When a choice has had to be made, we have elected to tell what is less generally known.

There’ remains only the pleasure of recalling the many kindnesses we have received, and of taking this opportunity of thanking all who have helped us with information, or by suggesting books.

Our gratitude is specially due to Monsignor J, A. Campbell, Rector of the Scotch College in Rome, for unwearied helpfulness, and readiness in answering an infinity of questions, and for the courtesy of placing his library at our disposal : and for the kind help given us by Padre Semeria, Barnabite.

For the archaeological portion of this handbook we are much indebted to conferences held on the spot by the late Commendatore G.-B. De Rossi, and by his pupil Professor Orazio Marucchi. And we desire also to thank Professor Barnabei and the Ministry of Public Instruction in Rome for facilities courteously afforded us.



Analecta Bollandiana. 1882-1908.

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