Category: History - Other
The origin of man, of woman, of marriage, and of the human family, 1 Archetypal character of the fact that man is created a Race, 3 Sole creation of Adam in the maturity of thought and speech and the perfection of knowledge, as shown in the naming of creatures, 4 Subsequent bu...
In the period before Christ, the two Powers, as well in every polity over the earth as in the vast conglomerate called the Roman Empire, beginning together, grew up in fast alli...
9. CHAPTER I.In one of the most ancient books of the world, which, in addition to its antiquity, all Christians venerate as containing the original tradition of man's creation, guaranteed in...
16. CHAPTER VII.The Church is the Body of Christ as it moves through the centuries from His first to His second coming. We have been tracing the course through the first three of these centurie...
12. CHAPTER III.The Spiritual Power rests for its origin, so far as all Christians are concerned, upon the transmission of spiritual authority from the Person of our Lord to Peter and the Apost...
13. CHAPTER IV.It was requisite to draw out the full statement of the transmission of Spiritual Power, as recorded in the Scriptures of the Church, before passing to its historical fulfilment....
15. CHAPTER VI.The foundation-stone of the Church of God is the Person of our Lord, a truth embodied with marvellous force and terseness of expression in that famous symbol of the Catacombs, t...
10. CHAPTER II.Taking as our basis the historical outline of the relation between the Civil and Spiritual Powers which has preceded, let us attempt to have present to our minds the state of th...
14. CHAPTER V.One of the points on which Pope St. Clement most strongly dwells is the care with which our Lord communicated to His Apostles definite and accurate instructions as to the kingdo...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Alliance of the Two Powers in the Roman Empire at the Advent of Christ, 400 The Emperor official guardian of all religions, 401 The Christian religion a singular exception, 403...
11. did. A Christian State may also vex and hamper with every form ofimpediment the exercise of the Church's powers. A State which has been Christian, becoming heretical or apostate, may assault the Church with a hatred, combined with deceit, whi...
1. CHAPTER I.The origin of man, of woman, of marriage, and of the human family, 1 Archetypal character of the fact that man is created a Race, 3 Sole creation of Adam in the maturity of thou...
2. CHAPTER II.The Spiritual Power not only allied but subordinate to the Civil throughout the Gentile world at the death of Christ, 70 1. Its independence in Israel alone, as acknowledged by...
4. CHAPTER IV.The letter of St. Clement of Rome, 184 Description of this letter by St. Irenæus, 185 St. Clement urges the Roman military discipline as an example for Christian obedience, 186...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Church's triple independence in government, teaching, and worship as actually carried out, 287 Occasion of the Nicene Council's convocation, 289 The Emperor thereby recognis...
3. CHAPTER III.The Church a kingdom subsisting from age to age by its own force, but its original records to be considered, 131 Institution of the Priesthood; St. Paul's and St. Luke's testimo...
7. CHAPTER VII.Germ of the Church in the missionary circuits of our Lord, 340 The mission carried on by the Apostles, 341 Its two parts: work of positive teaching and defence against error, 34...
5. CHAPTER V.St. Clement's assertion of the care with which our Lord instituted the government of His Church, 238 Christ's High-priesthood consisting in two acts, 239 1. The assumption of a...