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

Chapter III--Failure with Survival

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The narrative may be checked throughout by Neander's General History of the Christian Religion and Church (trans. in Bohn Lib.); by Mosheim, with the variorum notes of Reid's edition; by Gibbon's chapters; by the histories of dogma; by the above-cited monographs on the Fathers, St. Chrysostom's Picture of his Age (S.P.C.K. 1875), and Rev. W. E. Stephens's St. Chrysostom, His Life and Times (1872); by Milman's History of Latin Christianity, vols. i and ii; by Finlay's History of Greece (Tozer's ed.), vols. i and ii; and by Bury's History of the later Roman Empire (two vols. 1889). On the intellectual life compare further Boissier, La Fin du Paganisme; Ampère, Histoire littéraire de la France, 1839, tom. i and ii; and Lecky's History of European Morals.