Category: History - Ancient
In the six chapters forming the first volume of this work I was engaged in describing the operation of Christianity, as it took the individual human soul for its unit, purified it, and wrought in it a supernatural life. I began with the consummation of the old world in its sta...
The mind of the next great teacher who arose in Greece after Plato presented an almost complete contrast to that of the master under whom he had so long studied. Aristotle’s pow...
7. CHAPTER XI. THE SECOND AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.There is a moment in the history of the Roman empire when it comes before us with the most imposing grandeur. The imperial rule has been definitively accepted by that proud old...
8. CHAPTER XII. THE THIRD AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.The third century is that during which the Christian Church was making its way into every relation of life, and taking possession of human society. During this period it advance...
6. CHAPTER X. THE FIRST AGE OF THE MARTYR CHURCH.The world which Augustus and Tiberius ruled was not conscious of the fact that there was an order of truth, and of morality based upon that truth, the maintenance of which was t...
5. CHAPTER IX. THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.In order to complete the view taken in the preceding chapter of the work of Christ as the second Adam over against the work of the first Adam, it is necessary to dwell at greate...
4. CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.Let us look back on the space which we have traversed, and gather up in a few words the sight which it presents to us. We have man before us as far as history will carry us back...
3. CHAPTER VII. THE GODS OF THE NATIONS WHEN CHRIST APPEARED.Under the sceptre of the imperial unity were brought together a hundred different lands occupied by as many different races. That rule of Rome which had grown for many centuries...
9. CHAPTER XIII. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY. PART I.In the three preceding chapters we have witnessed a great spectacle, a spectacle in all history unique and without a rival, the encounter, that is, with the forces of the great...
11. ii. 15, who declares that the Roman Christians, not content τῇ126 As one instance out of many take the words of S. Paul, 2 Cor. i. 22: “He that _confirms_ us with you is Christ, and that has _anointed_ us is God; who has also _sealed_ us,...
2. Chapter XIV. The Christian Church And The Greek Philosophy. Part II.In the six chapters forming the first volume of this work I was engaged in describing the operation of Christianity, as it took the individual human soul for its unit, purified...
1. Volume II