Category: History - Ancient
The lectures contained in this volume were delivered by M. Ernest Renan in London during April of the present year. The first four, upon "Rome and Christianity," were given under the auspices of "The Hibbert Foundation," in response to an invitation under which the distinguish...
Ladies and Gentlemen,--I have accepted with great pleasure the invitation to address you in this illustrious institution devoted to the noblest researches of science and of true...
7. Part 7Later, unhappily, Rome took the stand of insisting upon its right. About the year 196 the question was more exciting than ever. The churches of Asia persisted in their old usage...
5. Part 5If the reasoning of Titus according to Tacitus is correctly reported, the victorious general believed that the destruction of the temple would be the ruin of Christianity as wel...
1. Part 1The lectures contained in this volume were delivered by M. Ernest Renan in London during April of the present year. The first four, upon "Rome and Christianity," were given unde...
2. Part 2The customs, even outside of Rome, were still somewhat cruel, either through the remaining spirit of ancient manners, everywhere sanguinary, or through the special influence of...
4. Part 4These sufferings were something frightful. Such refinements of cruelty had never been seen. Almost all those arrested were of the _humiliores_ (the poorest classes). The sentenc...
6. Part 6Ladies and Gentlemen,--It is plain that the importance of the churches in the primitive Christian community was in proportion to their apostolic nobility. The guaranty of orthod...
3. Part 3We admit then, that towards the year 50 of our era, some Syrian Jews, already Christians, entered the capital of the empire, and communicated the faith which rendered them happy...
9. Part 9Is this to say that he never revolted against the strange fate which leaves man alone face to face with the needs of devotion, of sacrifice, of heroism, and nature with its tran...