The Early Christians in Rome

About this eBook

Author

Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Methuen & co.,1911.

Credits

Karin Spence, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Rome (Italy) -- Church history

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67095

Release Date

January 3, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE EARLY CHRISTIANS IN ROME
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.Untitled
8. 8.BOOK I THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY IN ROME
9. 9.PART I — INTRODUCTORY THE JEWISH COLONY IN ROME
10. 10.I THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH IN ROME—“A”
11. 11.II A SUMMARY OF LITERARY NOTICES
12. 12.PART II — I THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH IN ROME—“B”
13. 13.II THE FIRE OF ROME, AND ITS RESULTS AS REGARDS CHRISTIANS— A.D. 64. HENCEFORTH THEY WERE REGARDED AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE
14. 14.III SILENCE RESPECTING PERSECUTION
15. 15.PART III CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PLINY AND TRAJAN — PLINY’S LETTER TO TRAJAN AND THE EMPEROR’S “RESCRIPT”—GENUINENESS OF CORRESPONDENCE
16. 16.I THE CHARACTER OF TRAJAN
17. 17.II VOGUE OF EPISTOLARY FORM OF LITERATURE
18. 18.III VOGUE OF EPISTOLARY FORM IN LITERATURE—THE NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES
19. 19.PART IV — I HADRIAN, A.D. 117– A.D. 138
20. 20.II HADRIAN’S POLICY TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY IN HIS CLOSING YEARS
21. 21.III ANTONINUS PIUS, A.D. 138– A.D. 161 MARCUS ANTONINUS, A.D. 161– A.D. 180
22. 22.IV REASONS OF THE PERSECUTING POLICY OF THE ANTONINES
23. 23.BOOK II THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FAITH
24. 24.INTRODUCTORY
25. 25.I LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY DAYS
26. 26.II THE ASSEMBLIES OF CHRISTIANS
27. 27.III OF WHOM WERE THESE ASSEMBLIES OF BELIEVERS COMPOSED?
28. 28.IV WHAT WAS SAID AND DONE IN THESE ASSEMBLIES AND MEETINGS OF THE BRETHREN
29. 29.V THE SLAVE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LIFE
30. 30.VI DIFFICULTIES IN ORDINARY LIFE AMONG THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
31. 31.VII THE ASCETIC AND THE MORE PRACTICAL SCHOOLS OF TEACHING
32. 32.VIII WHAT THE RELIGION OF JESUS OFFERED IN RETURN FOR THE HARDSHIPS CHRISTIANS HAD TO ENDURE IN THE EARLY CENTURIES
33. 33.BOOK III THE INNER LIFE OF THE CHURCH
34. 34.PART I FROM THE DATE OF THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME IN THE REIGN OF NERO TO THE DEATH OF MARCUS ANTONINUS A.D. 64–A.D. 180 — Introductory
35. 35.I FIRST GROUP OF QUOTATIONS
36. 36.II SECOND GROUP OF QUOTATIONS
37. 37.PART II THE TRAINING FOR MARTYRDOM — Introductory — I — II
38. 38.PART III THE GREAT NUMBER OF MARTYRS IN THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS — Introductory — I — II — III
39. 39.BOOK IV THE ROMAN CATACOMBS
40. 40.Untitled
41. 41.THE ROMAN CATACOMBS — Introductory
42. 42.PART I — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII
43. 43.APPENDICES — APPENDIX I.—ON S. PETRONILLA — APPENDIX II.—ON S. PETER’S TOMB
44. 44.PART II TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT DISCOVERIES — CRYPT OF S. CECILIA—THE BURIAL-PLACES OF S. FELICITAS, OF JANUARIUS, AND OF HER OTHER SONS I — II — III
45. 45.PART III EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS — I — II — III
46. 46.AN APPENDIX TO THE EPITAPHS, ETC., OF THE CATACOMBS
47. 47.BOOK V THE JEW AND THE TALMUD
48. 48.INTRODUCTORY
49. 49.I THE HISTORY OF THE THREE WARS WHICH CLOSED THE CAREER OF JUDAISM AS A NATION — II ( a ) RABBINISM
50. 50.III ( b ) RABBINISM — IV THE TALMUD — V THE TEXT OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT — VI CONCLUDING MEMORANDA — VII ( A ) AN APPENDIX ON THE “HAGGADAH” — VIII ( B ) ON THE “HALACHAH” AND “HAGGADAH” — IX WOMEN’S DISABILITIES — INDEX
51. 51.FOOTNOTES:

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