Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)

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Chapters

43. Part 43

§ 197.10. =Proof of the Prussian Government’s willingness to be Reconciled, 1880-1881.=--Notwithstanding this brusque refusal on the part of the papal curia, the government, at...

18. Part 18

§ 169.3. =The Dutch Reformed Church.=--Toward the end of the seventeenth century, in consequence of threats on the part of the magistrates, the passionate violence of the =dispu...

59. Part 59

§ 211.12. =The Mormons or Latter Day Saints.=--Jos. Smith, a broken down farmer of Vermont, who took to knavish digging for hid treasures, affirmed in 1825, that under direction...

4. Part 4

§ 155.2. =The Commonwealth and the Protector.=--Ireland had never yet atoned for its crime of A.D. 1641 (§ 153, 6), and as it refused to acknowledge the Commonwealth, Cromwell t...

20. Part 20

2. =The Age of Frederick the Great.= Hostility to all positive Christianity spread from England and France into Germany. The writings of the English deists were translated and r...

17. Part 17

§ 168.4. =Zinzendorf’s Plan and Work.=--While Zinzendorf received his first impulse from pietism, he soon perceived its onesidedness and narrowness. He would have no conventicle...

10. Part 10

§ 162.4. =The Netherlands.=--From England the Reformed Pietism was transplanted to the Netherlands, where =William Teellinck= may be regarded as its founder. After finishing his...

40. Part 40

§ 196.2. =The Catholic Troubles in Baden down to 1873.=--The Grand Duchy of Baden, with two-thirds of its population Catholic, where in 1848 the revolution had shattered all the...

11. Part 11

§ 163.6. =The Quaker Constitution=, as fixed in Penn’s time, was strictly democratic and congregationalist, with complete exclusion of a clerical order. At their services any ma...

22. Part 22

The greatest names in natural science, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Haller, Davy, Cuvier, etc., are household words in Christian circles. All these and many more were firmly conv...

23. Part 23

§ 175.2. =The Attitude of Catholicism toward Protestantism.=--Every Catholic bishop has still on assuming office to take the oath, _Hæreticos pro posse persequar_. The Jesuits,...

34. Part 34

§ 189.4. =Acceptance of the Decrees of the Council.=--All protests which during the council the minority had made against the order of business determined on and against all irr...

25. Part 25

§ 179.3. =Melancthonianism [Melanchthonianism] and Calvinism.=--The Reformed church of Germany has maintained a position midway between Lutheranism and Calvinism very similar to...

38. Part 38

§ 193.7. =The Evangelical Church in the Annexed Provinces.=--In 1866 the provinces of Hanover, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein were incorporated with the kingdom of Prussia. In the...

26. Part 26

§ 182.2. =The Older Rationalistic Theology.=--The older, so-called vulgar rationalism, was characterized by the self-sufficiency with which it rejected all advances from philoso...

28. Part 28

§ 182.20. =Ritschl and his School.=--=Ritschl=, 1822-1889, from A.D. 1846 in Bonn, from A.D. 1864 in Göttingen, on his withdrawal from the Tübingen party, applied himself to dog...

7. Part 7

§ 159.2. =The Syncretist Controversy.=--Since the Hofmann controversy (§ 141, 15) the University of Helmstadt had shown a decided humanistic tendency, and gave even greater free...

42. Part 42

§ 197.5. =The Prussian Ecclesiastical Laws, 1873-1875.=--In order to be able to check ultramontanism, even in its pædagogical breeding places, the episcopal colleges and seminar...

13. Part 13

§ 165.7. =The Second Stage of Jansenism= (§ 157, 5).--=Pasquier Quesnel=, priest of the Oratory at Paris, suspected in 1675 of Gallicanism, because of notes in his edition of th...

32. Part 32

§ 187.6. =Attempts to Found National Catholic Churches.=--After the July Revolution of A.D. 1830 the Abbé =Chatel= of Paris had himself consecrated bishop of a new sect by a new...

55. Part 55

3. On the other hand, the strict Lutheran church held tenaciously to the exclusive use of the German language and the genuine Lutheran confession. The Prussian emigration with G...

31. Part 31

§ 186.2. =Other Orders and Congregations.=--After the storms of the revolution religious orders rapidly recovered lost ground. France decreed, on November 2nd, 1789, the aboliti...

35. Part 35

§ 191.2. =Baader and his School.=--Catholic theology for a long time paid no regard to the development of German philosophy. Only after Schelling, whose philosophy had many poin...

2. Part 2

§ 203. FRANCE. (1) The French Church under Napoleon I. (2) The Restoration and the Citizen Kingdom. (3) The Catholic Church under Napoleon III. (4) The Protestant Churches under...

6. Part 6

§ 157.3. =Madame Guyon and Fénelon.=--After her husband’s death, =Madame Guyon=, in company with her father confessor, the Barnabite =Lacombe=, who had been initiated during a l...

57. Part 57

§ 211.2. =The Salvation Army.=--An extremely fantastic caricature of English Methodism is the =Salvation Army=. The Methodist evangelist, =William Booth=, who in 1865 founded in...

51. Part 51

§ 203.5. =The Catholic Church in the Third French Republic.=--The Gambetta government, the national vindication of the 4th September, 1870, resigned its power in February, 1871,...

29. Part 29

§ 184.4. Livingstone and Stanley have made marvellous contributions to our geographical knowledge of =Central Africa= and to Christian missions there. The Scottish missionary, D...

5. Part 5

1. At the head of the new orders of this century stands the =Benedictine Congregation of St. Banne= at Verdun, founded by Didier de la Cour. Elected Abbot of St. Banne in A.D. 1...

54. Part 54

§ 206.3. =The Evangelical Church.=--The Lutheran church in Russia, comprising two and a half millions of Germans, Letts, Esthonians and Finns, is strongest in Livonia, Esthonia...

36. Part 36

§ 191.12. =The Popes and Theological Science.=--What kind of theology =Pius IX.= wished to have taught is shown by his proclaiming St. Liguori (§ 165, 2) and St. Francis de Sale...

39. Part 39

§ 194.6. =Mecklenburg.=--Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1848 was in possession of a strictly Lutheran church government under the direction of Kliefoth, and its university at Rostock...

30. Part 30

§ 185.2. =Pius IX., A.D. 1846-1878.=--Count Mastai Feretti in his fifty-fourth year succeeded Gregory on 16th June, and took the name of Pius IX. While in ecclesiastical matters...

15. Part 15

By means of the founding of the University of Halle in A.D. 1694 a fresh impulse was given to the pietist movement, and too often the whole German Church was embroiled in violen...

60. Part 60

§ 211.18. To the domain of unquestionable illusion belongs also the spiritualistic movement of Indian =Theosophism= or =Occultism=. The American Col. Olcott of New York had alre...

50. Part 50

§ 202.10. The Fenian movement, originating among the American Irish, which since 1863 created such terror among the English, was the result of political rather than religious ag...

37. Part 37

§ 193.2. =The Golden Age of Prussian Ultramontanism, 1841-1871.=--In the Cologne-Posen conflict Rome had won an almost complete victory, and with all its satellites now thought...

9. Part 9

§ 161.6. =Theological Literature.=--Biblical oriental philology flourished in the Reformed church of this age. =Drusius= of Franeker, who died A.D. 1616, was the greatest Old Te...

14. Part 14

§ 165.13. =The German-Catholic Contribution to the Illumination.=--The Catholic church of Germany was also carried away with the current of “the Illumination,” which from the mi...

44. Part 44

3. In =Baden= the _Kulturkampf_ that had here previously broken out (§ 196, 2) was continued all the more keenly. In 1873 public teaching, holding of missions and assisting in p...

21. Part 21

§ 171.12. The great Swiss educationist =Pestalozzi=, A.D. 1746-1827, assumed toward the Bible, the church, and Christianity an attitude similar to that of the philosopher of Kön...

8. Part 8

3. =Those of Spener’s Time and Spirit=, men who longed for the regeneration of the church by practical Christianity. Their hymns are for the most part characterized by healthy p...

45. Part 45

In vain did the pope by an encyclical seek to rouse the episcopate to violent opposition, in vain did he adjure the emperor in a letter in his own hand not to suffer the church...

56. Part 56

1. =The Order of New Templars= sprang from the Freemasons (§ 172, 2). Soon after their establishment in France the Jesuits sought to carry out their own hierarchical ideas. The...

49. Part 49

§ 202.3. From the middle of 1850 the tractarians, who had hitherto confined themselves to the development of the Romanizing system of doctrine, began to apply its consequences t...

3. Part 3

1. Although =Hugo Grotius= distinctly took the side of the Remonstrants (§ 160, 2), his whole disposition was essentially irenical. He attempted, but in vain, not only the recon...

19. Part 19

§ 170.5. =Swedenborgianism.=--=Emanuel von Swedenborg= was born at Stockholm, in A.D. 1688, son of the strict Lutheran bishop of West Gothland, Jasper Swedberg. He was appointed...

27. Part 27

§ 182.11. Among =Old Testament exegetes= the most distinguished are: =Umbreit=, A.D. 1795-1860, of Heidelberg, who wrote from the supernaturalist standpoint, influenced by Schle...

47. Part 47

§ 200.3. The founding of the Free University at Amsterdam, referred to above, led to a series of violent conflicts which threatened to break up the whole Reformed church of the...

53. Part 53

§ 205.4. =The Evangelization of Spain.=--A number of Bibles and tracts, as well as a religious paper in Spanish called _el Albo_, found entrance into Spain from the English sett...

68. Part 68

Labadie, § 163, 7, 8. Labarum, § 22, 7. Labrador, § 184, 2. Labyrinth, The Little, § 31, 3. Lachat, § 199, 3. Lacordaire, § 187, 4; 188, 1. Lactantius, § 31, 12; 33, 9. Ladislau...

58. Part 58

1. The =Georgian Separatists=. The stream of Württemberg emigrants above referred to turned also toward Southern Russia. The settlers in Transcaucasian Georgia in the long absen...

12. Part 12

§ 164.2. =John Locke=, died A.D. 1704, with his sensationalism took up a position midway between Bacon’s empiricism and Descartes’ rationalism, on the one hand, and English deis...

70. Part 70

_Sabatati_, § 108, 10. Sabbath, § 56, 1. Sabbatarians, § 163, 3; 211, 5. Sabeans, § 22, 1. Sabellius, § 33, 5, 7. Sabinianus, § 60, 5. _Sacco di Roma_, § 132, 2. Sachs, Hans, §...

52. Part 52

§ 204.2. =The Kingdom of Italy.=--Amid such vigorous progress the year 1859 came round with its fateful Franco-Italian war. The French alliance had not indeed, as it promised, m...

16. Part 16

2. The poets of the orthodox party, although opposed to the pietists, are all more or less touched by the fervent piety of Spener. =Neumeister=, pastor at Hamburg, died A.D. 175...

24. Part 24

§ 176.4. =The Bender Controversy.=--At the Luther centenary festival of A.D. 1883, Prof. Bender of Bonn declared that in the confessional writings of the Reformation evangelical...

41. Part 41

§ 196.7. =The Imperial Territory of Alsace and Lorraine since 1871.=--After Alsace with German Lorraine had again, in consequence of the Franco-Prussian war, been united to Germ...

48. Part 48

§ 201.1. =Denmark.=--From the close of last century rationalism has had a home in Denmark. In 1825 Professor Clausen, a moderate adherent of the neological school, published a l...

33. Part 33

§ 188.12. =The Devotion of the Sacred Heart.=--Even after the suppression of the Jesuit order the devotion of the Sacred Heart (§ 156, 6) was zealously practised by the ex-Jesui...

71. Part 71

[447] Stevens, “Life and Times of Gustavus Adolphus.” New York, 1884. Trench, “Gustavus Adolphus in Germany, and other Lectures on the Thirty Years’ War.” London. Gardiner, “The...

61. Part 61

303. Beginning of Diocletian Persecution, § 22, 6. 306. Synod of Elvira, § 38, 3; 45, 2. Meletian Schism in Egypt, § 41, 4. Constantius Chlorus dies, § 22, 7. 311. Galerius dies...

62. Part 62

1302. Bull _Unam Sanctam_, § 110, 1. 1305-1314. Pope Clement V., § 110, 2. 1307. Dolcino burnt, § 108, 4. 1308. Duns Scotus dies, § 113, 1. 1309-1377. Residence of Popes at Avig...

65. Part 65

Caballero, § 174, 7. Cabasilas, § 68, 5; 70, 4. Cabet, § 212, 3. Cabrera, § 205, 4. Cadan, Peace of, § 133, 3. Cæcilius, § 63, 1. Cædmon, § 89, 3. Cæsarius of Arles, § 47, 20; 5...

63. Part 63

1800-1823. Pope Pius VII., § 185, 1. 1801. French Concordat, § 203, 1. 1803. Recess of Imperial Deputies, § 192, 1. 1804. Founding of British and Foreign Bible Society, § 183, 4...

46. Part 46

§ 199.4. =The Protestant Church in German Switzerland.=--Among all the German cantons, =Basel= (§ 172, 5), which unweariedly prosecuted the work of home and foreign missions, fe...

1. Part 1

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66. Part 66

Eadbald, § 77, 4. Eanfled, § 77, 6. Eardley, § 178, 2. Easter-Festival, § 37, 1; 56, 3, 4. ” Reckoning of, § 56, 3; 77, 3. East Friesland, § 170, 3. East Indies, § 64, 4; 150, 1...

67. Part 67

Haag, Pastor, § 196, 3. Haas, Jos., § 210, 2. ” Charles, § 175, 7. Haco the Good, § 93, 4. Hadrian, Emperor, § 28, 3; 25; 39, 6. ” I., § 66, 3; 82, 2; 91, 1. ” II., § 67, 1; 79,...

69. Part 69

Pabst, § 191, 3. _Pabulatores_, § 44, 7. Paccanari, § 186, 1. Pachomius, § 44, 1, 3, 5. Pacianus, § 47, 15. Pacifico, Fra, § 104, 10. Pack, O. v., § 132, 1. Paderborn, § 133, 5....

72. Part 72

[548] Manning, “The True History of the Vatican Council.” London, 1877. Pomponio Leto, “The Vatican Council, being the impressions of a contemporary (Card. Vitelleschi), transla...

64. Part 64

Baader, Francis, § 175, 5; 187, 3; 191, 2. Baanes, § 71, 1. Babäus, § 52, 3. Babeuf, § 212, 1. Babylonian Exile of Popes, § 110, 2-5. Bach, Sebastian, § 167, 7. Bacon, Roger, §...

73. Part 73

Index Sentence starting: Abyssinian Church,... - ‘187, 19’ replaced with ‘184, 9’ (152, 1; 160, 7; 166, 3; 184, 9.) Sentence starting: Accommodation Controversy,... - ‘§ 155, 12...