History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V. |
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Acacius according admitted Africa Alexandria already Anastasius ancient Antioch appear Arian asserted authority barbarian became Bishop of Rome called Catholic cause century Chalcedon CHAP character Christendom Christian Church civil clergy close commanded common Compare compelled condemned Constantinople Council crime Cyril death decrees degradation demanded dignity divine doctrine doubt East Eastern ecclesiastical edict Emperor Empire Epist equal faith followers Gaul Goths Greek Gregory hand head held heretics holy human Imperial influence Italy John Justinian King language later Latin least less letter maintained mind monks nature Nestorius once opinions orthodox party peace perhaps period persecution persons Peter Pope prelates question received religion religious respect Roman rule seems Senate slave sovereign spiritual successor synod Teutonic Theodoric throne throughout tion took West Western whole writings
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Page 286 - Christianity all its ferocity, with none of its generosity or magnanimity ; its energy shows itself in atrocity of cruelty and even of sensuality. Christianity has given to barbarism hardly more than its superstition and its hatred of heretics and unbelievers. Throughout, assassinations, parricides, and fratricides intermingle with adulteries and rapes.
Page 10 - Christianity seems the inevitable consequence of man's progress in knowledSe> and in the more general dissemination of "y- that knowledge. Human thought is almost compelled to assert, and cannot help asserting, its original freedom. And as that progress is manifestly a law of human nature, proceeding from the divine Author of our being, this self-adaptation of the one true religion to that progress must have the divine sanction, and may be supposed, without presumption, to have been contemplated...
Page 249 - Monks in Alexandria, monks in Antioch, monks in Jerusalem, monks in Constantinople, decide peremptorily on orthodoxy and heterodoxy. The bishops themselves cower before them. Macedonius in Constantinople, Flavianus in Antioch, Elias in Jerusalem, condemn themselves, and abdicate or are driven from their sees. Persecution is universal ; persecution by every means of violence and cruelty; the only question is in whose hands is the power to persecute.
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