Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Advent of Marcus-Aurelius
Chapter II. Progress and Reforms. The Roman Law.
Chapter III. The Reign of the Philosophers.
Chapter IV. Persecutions Against the Christians.
Chapter V. Increasing Grandeur of the Church of Rome—Pseudo-Clementine Writings.
Chapter VI. Tatian—The Two Systems of Apology.
Chapter VII. Decadence of Gnosticism.
Chapter VIII. Oriental Syncretism—The Ophites—Future Apparition of Manichæism.
Chapter IX. The Result of Marcionism—Apelles.
Chapter X. Tatian Heretical—The Encratites.
Chapter XI. The Great Bishops of Greece and Asia—Melito.
Chapter XII. The Question of Easter.
Chapter XIII. Last Recrudescence of MIllenarianism and Prophetism—The Montanists.
Chapter XIV. Resistance of the Orthodox Church.
Chapter XV. Complete Triump of the Episcopate—Results of Montanism.
Chapter XVI. Marcis-Aurelius Among the Quades—The Book of Thoughts.
Chapter XVII. The Legio Fulminata—Apologies of Apollinaris, Miltiades, and Melito.
Chapter XVIII. The Gnostics and the Montanists at Lyons.
Chapter XIX. The Martyrs of Lyons.
Chapter XX. Reconstitution of the Church of Lyons—Irenæus.
Chapter XXI. Celsus and Lucian.
Chapter XXII. New Apologies—Athenagoras, Theophilus of antioch, Minucius Felix.
Chapter XXIII. Progress of Organisation.
Chapter XXIV. Schools of Alexandria and Edessa.
Chapter XXV. Statistics and Geographical Extension of Christianity.
Chapter XXVI. The Interior Martyrdom of Marcus-Aurelius—His Preparation for Death.
Chapter XXVII. Death of Marcus-Aurelius—The End of the Old World.
Chapter XXVIII. Christianity at the End of the Second Century—Dogma.
Chapter XXIX. Worship and Discipline.
Chapter XXX. Christian Manners.
Chapter XXXI. Reasons for the Victory of Christianity.
Chapter XXXII. Social and Political Revolution Advanced by Christianity.
Chapter XXXIII. The Christian Empire.