HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE END OF THE FIFTH CENTURY

BY

MONSIGNOR LOUIS DUCHESNE

VOLUME I (PDF) /// (HTML)

1.-THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE HOME OF CHRISTIANITY

2.-THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH AT JERUSALEM

3.-ANTIOCH AND THE MISSIONS OF ST PAUL

4.-THE CHRISTIAN IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE

5.-THE ORIGIN OF THE ROMAN CHURCH

6.-THE FIRST HERESIES

7.-THE EPISCOPATE

8.-CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE

9.-THE END OF JUDAIC-CHRISTIANITY

10.-THE CHRISTIAN BOOKS

11.-GNOSTICISM AND MARCIONISM

12.-EVANGELIZATION AND APOLOGETICS IN THE SECOND CENTURY

13.-THE CHURCH IN ROME FROM NERO TO COMMODUS

14.-THE CHURCHES OF THE SECOND CENTURY

15.-MONTANISM

17.-16.-THE PASCHAL CONTROVERSY

18.-CONTROVERSIES IN ROME—HIPPOLYTUS

19.-THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA

20.-CHURCH AND STATE IN THE THIRD CENTURY

21.-AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRD CENTURY—CYPRIAN

22.-CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST, BEFORE DECIUS.

23.-PAUL OF SAMOSATA

24.-DIONYSIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

25.-EASTERN THEOLOGY AFTER ORIGEN AND PAUL OF SAMOSATA

26.-CHRISTIAN PRACTICE

27.-THE CHRISTIAN SOCIETY

28.-THE REACTION AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AT THE END OF THE THIRD CENTURY

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29.-THE GREAT PERSECUTION

30.-CONSTANTINE, THE CHRISTIAN EMPEROR

31.-THE SCHISMS RESULTING FROM THE PERSECUTION

32.-ARIUS AND THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA

33.-EUSEBIUS AND ATHANASIUS

34.-CHAPTER VI THE EMPEROR CONSTANS

35.-THE PROSCRIPTION OF ATHANASIUS

36.-THE DEFEAT OF ORTHODOXY

37.-JULIAN AND THE PAGAN REACTION

38.-AFTER ARIMINUM

39.-BASIL OF CAESAREA

40.-GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS

13.-POPE DAMASUS

41.-THE MONKS OF THE EAST

42.-THE WEST IN THE DAYS OF ST AMBROSE

43.-CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST UNDER THEODOSIUS

44.-CHRISTIANITY, THE STATE RELIGION

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45.-THE CHURCH IN THE DAYS OF THEODOSIUS I AND II

46.-ORIGENISM AND ST JEROME

47.-CHRYSOSTOM AND THEOPHILUS

48.-THE END OF DONATISM

49.-ALARIC

50.-PELAGIUS

51.-POPE ZOSIMUS

52.-AUGUSTINIANISM

53.-ATTICUS AND CYRIL

54.-THE TRAGEDY OF NESTORIUS

55.-THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON

56.-THE MONOPHYSITES

57.-CHRISTIANITY EAST OF THE EMPIRE

58.-THE WEST IN THE FIFTH CENTURY

59.-THE ROMAN CHURCH IN THE FIFTH CENTURY