A Short History of Christianity

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Author

Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon), 1856-1933

Title

A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Church history

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52550

Release Date

July 10, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.CORRIGENDA
4. 4.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
5. 5.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
6. 6.PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
7. 7.THE BEGINNINGS — § 1. Documentary Clues — § 2. The Earliest Christian Sects — § 3. Personality of the Nominal Founder — § 4. Myth of the Twelve Apostles — § 5. Primary Forms of the Cult — § 6. Rise of Gentile Christism — § 7. Growth of the Christ Myth
8. 8.THE ENVIRONMENT — § 1. Social and Mental Conditions in the Roman Empire — § 2. Jewish Orthodoxy — § 3. Jewish Sects: the Essenes — § 4. Gentile Cults — § 5. Ethics: Popular and Philosophic
9. 9.CONDITIONS OF SURVIVAL — § 1. Popular Appeal — § 2. Economic Causation — § 3. Organization and Sacred Books — § 4. Concession and Fixation — § 5. Cosmic Philosophy
10. 10.CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SECOND CENTURY TO THE RISE OF ISLAM
11. 11.DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNESTABLISHED CHURCH — § 1. Numbers and Inner Life — § 2. Growth of the Priesthood — § 3. The Gnostic Movement in the Second Century — § 4. Marcionism and Montanism — § 5. Rites and Ceremonies — § 6. Strifes over Primary Dogma
12. 12.RELATIONS OF CHURCH AND STATE — § 1. Persecutions — § 2. Establishment and Creed-Making — § 3. Reaction under Julian — § 4. Re-establishment: Disestablishment of Paganism
13. 13.FAILURE WITH SURVIVAL — § 1. The Overthrow of Arianism — § 2. The Cost of Orthodoxy — § 3. Moral and Intellectual Stagnation — § 4. The Social Failure
14. 14.MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY
15. 15.EXPANSION AND ORGANIZATION — § 1. Position in the Seventh Century — § 2. Methods of Expansion — § 3. Growth of the Papacy
16. 16.RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION AND STRIFE — § 1. Growth of Idolatry and Polytheism — § 2. Doctrines of the Eucharist, Purgatory, and Confession — § 3. Rationalistic Heresies — § 4. Anti-clerical Heresies
17. 17.THE SOCIAL LIFE AND STRUCTURE — § 1. The Clergy, Regular and Secular — § 2. The Higher Theology and its Effects — § 3. Christianity and Feudalism — § 4. Influence of the Crusades
18. 18.THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE — § 1. Superstition and Intolerance — § 2. The Inquisition — § 3. Classic Survivals and Saracen Contacts — § 4. Religion and Art
19. 19.BYZANTINE CHRISTIANITY
20. 20.MODERN CHRISTIANITY
21. 21.THE REFORMATION — § 1. Moral and Intellectual Forces — § 2. Political and Economic Forces — § 3. Social and Political Results — § 4. Intellectual Results
22. 22.PROGRESS OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN THOUGHT — § 1. The Physical Sciences — § 2. Philosophy, Cosmic and Moral — § 3. Biblical and Historical Criticism
23. 23.POPULAR ACCEPTANCE — § 1. Catholic Christianity — § 2. Protestant Christianity — § 3. Greek Christianity
24. 24.THE RELATION TO PROGRESS — § 1. Moral Influence — § 2. Intellectual Influence — § 3. Conclusion and Prognosis
25. 25.SYNOPSIS OF LITERATURE — Part I—PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY — Chapter I—The Beginnings — Chapter II—The Environment — Chapter III—Conditions of Survival — Part II—CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SECOND CENTURY TO THE RISE OF ISLAM — Chapter I—Scope and Character of the Unestablished Church — Chapter II—Relations of Church and State — Part III—MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY — Chapter I—Expansion and Organization — Chapter II—Religious Evolution and Strife — Chapter III—The Social Life and Structure — Chapter IV—The Intellectual Life — Chapter V—Byzantine Christianity — Part IV—MODERN CHRISTIANITY — Chapter I—The Reformation — Chapter II—Progress of Anti-Christian Thought — Chapter III—Popular Acceptance
26. 26.INDEX
27. 27.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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