Gwatkin’s History of the Church to 313AD

Today’s free book is Henry Gwatkin’s History of the Church up to the time of Constantine the Great. This public domain work was digitised using the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.

Henry Melvill Gwatkin [1844-1916], Early Church History to A.D. 313, 2 Vols., 2nd edn. London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., 1912. Hbk. pp.311+382. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

1. Church History in General
2. The Deacy of Ancient Religion
3. The Roman Empire
4. The Apostolic Age
5. The Neronian Persecution
6. The Flavian Period
7. Trajan
8. Hadrian and Antoninus Pius
9. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
10. Commodus
11. The Apologists
12. Christian Life
13. The Churches and the Church
14. Jewish Influences
15. Gnosticism
16. Montanism
17. Irenaeus
18. The Eastern Emperors
19. The School of Alexandria
20. Origen
21. The Roman Church
22. Africa—Tertullian
23. Decius and Valerian
24. The Discipline Questions
25. The Long Peace
26. The Great Persecution

• Table of Emperors
• Index

Main image: The Battle of the Milvian Bridge (1520–24) by Giulio Romano. Source: Wikipedia.

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