A History of the Church From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation

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1833. Contents Part I: From the times of the Apostles to the accession of Constantine; On the numbers, discipline, doctrine, and morality of the primitive Church; The progress of Christianity from the year 200 A.D. till the accession of Constantine, A.D. 313; Persecutions of several Roman Emperors; On the Heresies of the three first Centuries. Part II. Constantine the Great; The Arian Controversy; The decline and fall of Paganism; From the fall of Paganism to the death of Justinian (348-567); From the death of Justinian to that of Charlemagne (567-814); On the Dissensions of the Church from the age of Constantine to that of Charlemagne; On the Schism between the Greek and Latin Churches; Review of the Ante-Nicene Church. Part III. On the Government and Projects of the Church during the ninth and tenth Centuries; On the Opinions, Literature, and external Fortunes of the Church; and The Life of Gregory VII.