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SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
SCIENTIFIC INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. Outline and Definition of Church History.
? 1. Religion-Church-Christian Church.....
2. The True Church-Sects
3. History-Church History....
4. Object of Church History.
1
4
5
7
9
5. Universal and Particular Church History.....
CHAPTER II. Method of Writing Church History.
8 6. Qualities raising History to the Rank of a Science........
7. Impartiality of the Church Historian......
8. Divisions of History according to Time...................
First Period
Second Period....
Third Period..........................
11
14
15
16
17
9. Division of Church History according to Subject-matter.......... 18
CHAPTER III. Sources-Preparatory and Auxiliary Science-Value and
Utility of Church History.
? 10. Sources of Church History..
11. Criticism and Use of Sources....
21
26
12. Preparatory and Auxiliary Science necessary to C. H...........................
13. Value of Church History and Utility of its Study
27
30
CHAPTER IV. Works on Christian Church History. FIRST PERIOD-Greek and Roman Church Historians from the Foundation of the Christian
Church to the End of the Seventh Century.
14. Greek Church Historians.....
15. Latin Church Historians
(XV)
34
37
SECOND PERIOD-Romans-Germanic Church Historians from the Eighth
to the Sixteenth Century-Greek Church Historians during the Same
Period.
8 16. Western, and especially German Historians
17. Greek Historians.......
39
43
THIRD PERIOD-Church Historians from the Western Schism (1517) to Our
Own Day.
2 18. Historical Controversies between Protestants and Catholics... 44
19. Studies in Church History in France.......
20. Studies on Church History in Italy.......
21. Catholic Church Historians in Germany
22. Lutheran Church Historians......................
23. Historians of the Reformed Church..
45
49
50
54
59
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
62
THE ANCIENT WORLD AND ITS RELATIONS TO CHRISTIANITY,
FOR WHICH IT WAS THE PREPARATION......................
Review of the Religious, Moral, and Political Condition of the Pagans and
Jews at the Birth of Christ.
24. The True Idea of Paganism.......
25. Religion of the Famous Oriental Nations......
64
71
85
26. Religious, Social, and Moral Condition of the Greeks........
27. Religious, Social, and Moral Condition of the Romans............ 92
28. The Israelites-Their Independence and Subjugation.................................... 100
29. The Jews outside of Palestine.
116
30. The Three Principal Sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenians
-The Samaritans.......................
120
31. Direct and Indirect Preparation for the Coming of Christ in the
Fullness of Time.........
127
FIRST PERIOD.
CHURCH HISTORY AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE ROMAN EM-
PIRE DURING THE FIRST SEVEN CENTURIES-GENERAL
CHARACTER OF THIS PERIOD.........
136
FIRST EPOCH-From the Birth of Christ to Constantine the Great (1-313).
? 32. Sources-Works on the Ecclesiastical History of this Epoch.... 137
PART FIRST-FIRST CENTURY.
Christ and the Apostolic Age.
CHAPTER I. The Life and Labors of Jesus Christ.
33. Chronological Researches on the Year of the Birth of Christ
and the Length of His Life......
34. Object of the Incarnation of Christ......
138
141
35. On the So-called Development of Jesus...
143
36. St. John the Baptist-His Mission........
144
37. Temptation of Jesus-Sermon on the Mount-His Fixed Pur-
148
pose......
38. The Divine Doctrine of Jesus-Its Scope and Character............................. 150
39. Jesus Establishes a Visible Church......
152
CHAPTER II. The History of the Apostles-Their Labors in Propagating
Christianity, and Establishing a Church among the Jews and Pagans.
43. Pentecost-Complete Organization of the Church of Christ..... 166
169
44. The Jews persecute the Christians.
45. Saul the Persecutor-Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles............ 171
46. The Gospel is preached to the Gentiles.......................
174
47. The Journeys of St. Paul-His Apostolic Labors and His Epis-
tles..
175
48. Apostolic Labors of St. Peter...
179
49. Labors of the Other Apostles, except St. John-The Blessed
Virgin Mary.........
182
50. The Progress of Christianity.
..... 187
51. Destruction of Jerusalem-Separation of the Church from the
Synagogue
CHAPTER III. Form and Constitution of the Apostolic Church.
190
2 52. Clergy and Laity
195
53. The Institution of the Hierarchy by Jesus Christ—The Episco-
pate, Presbyterate, and Diaconate.........
.... 198
54. The Teachings of St. Paul relative to the Organization of the
Church ....
204
CHAPTER IV. Christian Life-Worship-Ecclesiastical Discipline.
3 55. Christian Fellowship and Christian Life.........
56. Worship
57. Discipline
207
210
.... 212
CHAPTER V. Heresies of this Epoch-Labors of St. John-Close of the
Apostolic Age (A. D. 34-100).
58. Heresies Resulting from the Confusion of Judaism with Chris-
tianity—The Ebionites and Nazarenes...
.... 216
59. Pseudo-Messiahs-Dositheus, Simon Magus, Menander, Cerin-
thus-The Docetae and Nicolaitanes...
60. St. John the Apostle-His Conflicts with Heretics
61. Summary of the Doctrines of the Apostles-Their Mode of
Teaching........
219
226
230
PART SECOND.
Exterior Development of the Church.
CHAPTER I. 1. Propagation of Christianity; 2. Persecutions against the
Christian Church.
8 62. Growth of the Christian Church in Asia....
63. Christian Churches in Africa
64. Propagation of Christianity in Europe....
66. Obstacles to the Propagation of Christianity.....
65. Causes of the Rapid Propagation of Christianity....
67. (a) During the Second Century...
(6) During the Third Century....
68. Attacks upon Christianity by Pagan Writers......
69. The Christian Apologists...
70. The Martyrs of the Catholic Church and their Influence......... 299
CHAPTER II. Heresies.
2 71. Gnosticism-Its Origin and Characteristics......
304
72. The Characteristics of the Different Forms of Gnosticism........ 310
A. Hellenic Gnostics. Some accept, others reject the Old Testament.
1. Basilides......
74. The Montanists and the Alagi..........
325
327
328
329
332
335
.... 342
348
349
352
356
75. Rationalistic Forms of Heresy-The Monarchians, or Anti-Trini-
tarians.........
A. Ebionites, or Dynamic Anti-Trinitarians......
B. Patripassionists, or Modalists.........
C. Compromise between the Dynamists and Modalists.......
CHAPTER III. The Doctrine of the Catholic Church as Distinguished from
Defective Heretical Teaching.
76. Tradition, or the Principle by which Christian Doctrine is
handed down in the Catholic Church.........
358
77. Doctrine of the Church regarding the Unity of God............... 363
78. Doctrine of the Church on Christ as the Redeemer-His Divin-
ity-His Humanity-Rejection of Chiliasm......................
79. Doctrine of the Church on the Holy Ghost and the Divine
Trinity
80. Principles of Theological Science.........................
364
368
370
373
81. The Various Forms of Ecclesiastical Science..................
CHAPTER IV. Constitution of the Catholic Church.
389
82. The Definite Recognition of Episcopal Supremacy.................................
83. Increase in the Number of Ecclesiastical Functions................ 391
84. Education, Election, Ordination, and Support of the Clergy..... 395
85. The Celibacy of the Clergy.........
86. Development of the Organization of the Church-Growth of the
Authority of the Metropolitan-Provincial Councils............ 405
87. Primacy of the Bishop of Rome-He is the Center of Unity for
the Whole Church.......
Thascius Caecilius Cyprian....
409
414