History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

It is incredible that a man of sound, clear, and keen mind as that of Paul undoubtedly was, should have made such a radical and ...

the former with the one vouchsafed to him at his conversion.^393 Once, and once only, he claims to have seen the Lord in visible ...

proceed from an empty dream? Can an illusion change the current of history? By joining the Christian sect Paul sacrificed everyt ...

Professor Reuss, of Strasburg, likewise an independent critic of the liberal school, comes to the same conclusion as Baur, that ...

which never faileth, but will last for ever the greatest in the triad of celestial graces: faith, hope, love. Saul converted bec ...

to be reconciled to God. Animated by this spirit, he became "as a Jew to the Jews, as a Gentile to the Gentiles, all things to a ...

a night and a day have I been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my co ...

On his return from the Arabian retreat Paul began his public ministry in earnest at Damascus, preaching Christ on the very spot ...

From a.d. 51–54. Second missionary journey. After the council at Jerusalem and the temporary adjustment of the difference betwe ...

During this period he wrote the great doctrinal Epistles to the Galatians, Corinthians, and Romans, which mark the height of his ...

In the Roman prison he wrote the Epistles to the Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Philemon. a.d. 63 and 64. With the sec ...

in 388, and recently reconstructed. He lies outside of Rome, Peter inside. His memory is celebrated, together with that of Peter ...

On the other hand not only radical and skeptical critics, as Baur, Zeller, Schenkel, Reuss, Holtzmann, and all who reject the Pa ...

Eusebius (d. 310) first clearly asserts that "there is a tradition (λόγος ἔχει) that the apostle, after his defence, again set ...

The narrative of Acts follows oral and written traditions which were already influenced by later views and prejudices, and it is ...

Paul’s mission among the Gentiles forced the question to a solution and resulted in a grand act of emancipation, yet not without ...

But even after the baptism of the uncircumcised centurion, and Peter’s defence of it before the church of Jerusalem, the old lea ...

To avert this calamity and to settle this irrepressible conflict, the churches of Jerusalem and Antioch resolved to hold a priva ...

service of charity he had cheerfully done before, and as cheerfully and faithfully did afterward by raising collections among hi ...

freedom he cared nothing for circumcision or uncircumcision as a mere rite or external condition, and as compared with the keepi ...