The holy Christian church from its remote origins to the present day
Robert Matteson Johnston illustrates the origins of the Christian church and its development from greek thoughts till modern times
Excerpt from the introduction
The attitude of our time towards Christianity has many aspects easier to summarize than to explain. These ranges all the way from the Papal view, with its strict doctrine of inspiration, authority, and discipline, to that other extreme, immediately beyond which lies the non-Christian view, whether hostile or indifferent. Between them the great educated mass of western Europe and America holds an uncertain position with a tendency, perhaps, to shift unevenly towards the two extremes. From the group of the intellectual Catholics, or Modernists, to the least dogmatic of the Protestant sects, there exists a great, vague mass of Christian thought that lacks the definiteness found on either side of it, and about which some general propositions can be formulated.
Content of the book:
I. Greek and Roman Thought before Christ. 3
II. Before the Captivity of Babylon ... 13
in. From the Captivity to Christ . . . .28
IV. Jesus 48
V. Paul 68
VI. From a.d. 70 to a.d. 312 94
VII. From a.d. 70 to a.d. 312 (continued) . . 110
VIII. The Conversion of Constantine . . . 132
IX. The Last Roman Emperors .... 148
X. Justinian and Gregory the Great . . 167
XI. The Millennium 181
Xn. After the Millennium 197
Xin. Dante, Petrarch, and Borgia . . . . 222
XIV. The Reformation 245
XV. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Vatican
Council 273
XVI. Cross-currents 300
Index 323
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