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Book Description
- Title:
- The Ancient Catholic Church from the Accession of Trajan to the Fourth General Council [A.D. 98-451]
- Author:
- Robert Rainy [1826-1906]
- Publication Year:
- 1902
- Location:
- Edinburgh
- Publisher:
- T & T Clark
- Pages:
- 539
- Subjects:
- Church History, Church Fathers
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Environment
- The Early Churches
- The Church's Life
- Beliefs and Sacraments
- The Apologists
- The Heresies
- Montanism
- Relation to the State
- The New Philosophy
- Christian Thought and Literature
- Christ and God
- Christian Life
- Worship
- Clergy
- Discipline and Schisms
- Manicheism
- The Church in the Christian Empire and Beyond
- Monasticism
- The Clergy
- Nicene Council
- Arian Controversy—Post Nicene
- Minor Controversies
- Discussions Regarding the Person of Christ
- Donatism
- Ecclesiastical Personages of Fourth Century
- Festivals, Church Services, and Sacraments
- Discipline
- Augustine
- Pelagian Controversy
- Semi-Pelagianism
- Ecclesiastical Personages [who survived A.D. 400]
- Processes of Change
- Appendix
- A. Literature of Church History
- B. Supplementary Notes to Chapters
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