Chapter 1

THE FALL OF ARIANISM 147

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 169

INDEX 173

LIST OF WORKS.

The following works will be found useful by students who are willing to pursue the subject further. Some of special interest or importance are marked with an asterisk.

(A.) ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES AND TRANSLATIONS.

The Church Histories of *Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and (for the Arian side) the fragments of Philostorgius [translations in Bohn's _Ecclesiastical Library_].

*Eusebius, _Vita Constantini_ and _Contra Marcellum Ancyranum_.

*Athanasius, especially _De Incarnatione Verbi Dei_, _De Decretis Synodi Nicænæ_, _Orationes contra Arianos_, _De Synodis_, _Ad Antiochenos_, _Ad Afros_. Convenient editions of most of these by Professor Bright of Oxford. [Translations of *_De Incarnatione_ (Bindley in _Christian Classics_ Series) and of the _Orationes_ and most of the historical works, Newman in Oxford _Library of the Fathers_.]

Hilary, especially _De Synodis_. Cyril's _Catecheses_ [translation in _Oxford Library of the Fathers_]. Basil, especially _Letters_. Gregory of Nazianzus, especially _Orationes_ iv. and v. (against Julian). Of minor writers, Phoebadius and Sulpicius Severus (for Council of Ariminum). Fragments of Marcellus, collected by Rettberg (Göttingen, 1794). [German translations of most of these in Thalhofer's _Bibliothek der Kirchenväter_. English may be hoped for in Schaff's _Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers_ (vol. i. Buffalo, 1886) in 25 vols.]

Heathen writers:--Zosimus (bitterly prejudiced); Ammianus Marcellinus for 353-378 (cool and impartial); Julian, especially _Cæsares_, _Fragmentum Epistolæ_, and _Epp._ 7, 25, 26, 42, 43, 49, 52.

(B.) MODERN WRITERS.

1. For general reference:--

Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_ (prejudiced against the Christian Empire, but narrative still unrivalled); Schiller _Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit_, Bd. ii. (church matters a weak point); Ranke, _Weltgeschichte_, Bd. iii. iv.

General Church Histories of Neander [translation in Bohn's _Standard Library_]; Kurtz (zehnte Aufl., 1887); Fisher (New York, 1887); also Hefele, _History of the Church Councils_ [translation published by T. & T. Clark].

Articles in _Dictionary of Christian Biography_ (especially those by Lightfoot, Reynolds, and Wordsworth), and in Herzog's _Realencyclopädie_ (especially _Mönchtum_ by Weingarten).

Weingarten's _Zeittafeln z. Kirchengeschichte_ (3 Aufl. 1888).

(2.) For special use:--

The whole period is more or less covered by Kaye, _Some Account of the Nicene Council_, 1853; *Stanley, _Eastern Church_ (best account of the outside of the council); Broglie, _L'Église et l'Empire romain_; Gwatkin, _Studies of Arianism_, 1882.

On Constantine, Burckhardt, _Die Zeit Constantins_, 1853; Keim, _Der Uebertritt Constantins_, 1862; Brieger, _Constantin der Grosse als Religionspolitiker_, 1880.

On Julian, English account by *Rendall, 1879; German lives by Neander, 1813 [translated 1850]; Mücke, 1867-69, and Rode, 1877. The French books are mostly bad. For the decline of heathenism generally, Merivale, _Boyle Lectures_ for 1864-65; Chastel, _Destruction du Paganisme_, 1850; Lasaulx, _Untergang des Hellenismus_, 1854; Schultze, _Geschichte des Untergangs des griechisch-römischen Heidentums_, 1887; also Capes, _University Life in Ancient Athens_, 1877; Sievers, _Leben des Libanius_, 1868.

Biographies:--Fialon, _Saint Athanase_, 1877 (slight, but suggestive); Zahn, _Marcellus von Ancyra_, 1867; Reinkens, _Hilarius von Poitiers_, 1864; Fialon, _Saint Basile_, 1868; Ullmann, _Gregorius von Nazianz_, 2 Aufl. 1867 [translated 1851]; Krüger, _Lucifer von Calaris_, 1886; Eichhorn, _Athanasii de vita ascetica Testimonia_, 1886 (in opposition to Weingarten and others); Guldenpenning u. Island, _Theodosius der Grosse_, 1878; various of unequal merit in _The Fathers for English Readers_.

On Teutonic Arianism:--Scott, _Ulfilas, Apostle of the Goths_, 1885; Hodgkin, _Italy and her Invaders_, 1880-85; Revillout, _De l'Arianisme des Peuples germaniques_, 1850.

For doctrine, the general histories in German of Baur, Nitzsch, 1870; Hagenbach [translated in Clark's _Foreign Theological Library_], and *Harnack, Bd. ii., 1887; Dorner's _Doctrine of the Person of Christ_ [translated in Clark's _Foreign Theological Library_]; *Hort, _Two Dissertations_, 1876 (on Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creeds); Caspari, _Quellen_, Bd. iii. (on Apostles' Creed).

On Athanasius, also Voigt, _Die Lehre von Athanasius_, 1861; Atzberger, _Die Logoslehre des hl. Athanasius_, 1880; Wilde, _Athanasius als Bestrijder der Arianen_, 1868 (Dutch).

For the Roman Catholic version of the history, Möhler, _Athanasius der Grosse_, 1844; Newman, _Arians of the Fourth Century_.

For short sketches giving the relation of Arianism to Church history in general, *Allen, _Continuity of Christian Thought_, 1884 (contrast of Greek and Latin Churches); *Sohm, _Kirchengeschichte im Abriss_, 1888.

NOTE.

The present work is largely, though not entirely, an abridgement of my _Studies of Arianism_.

The Conversion of the Goths, which gives the best side of Arianism, has been omitted as belonging more properly to another volume of the series.

THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY.

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