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

ecclesiastical point of division. With him, the author of the Anglo-Saxon mission, the last of the church fathers, and the first ...

The seventeenth century is the period of scholastic orthodoxy, polemic confessionalism, and comparative stagnation. The reformat ...

Eighth Period: The age of polemic orthodoxy and exclusive confessionalism, with reactionary and progressive movements. From the ...

age and strike firm root in the soil of history. No one who tramples on the rights of a past generation can claim the regard of ...

indexes, and exhaustive monographs, where he cannot examine all the primary sources in detail. Only he should always carefully i ...

unessential details, which may be left to monographs and special treatises. Brevity is a virtue in the historian, unless it make ...

Then he must be in thorough sympathy with his subject, and enthusiastically devoted thereto. As no one can interpret a poet with ...

reproduction of the actual history itself. In this progress also are marked the various confessional and denominational phases o ...

III. Latin Church historians of the middle ages. The Latin Church, before the Reformation, was, in church history, as in all oth ...

This truly colossal and monumental work is even to this day an invaluable storehouse of information from the Vatican library and ...

Protestant Cramer, with less elegance but more thoroughness, and with special reference to the doctrine history of the middle ag ...

The best compendious histories from the pens of German Romanists are produced by Jos. Ign. Ritter, Professor in Bonn and afterwa ...

older, taking its stand upon the primitive historical basis of Christianity. Then again, in the course of controversy with Rome, ...

original and vigorous, but more sober and moderate. It comes down to the sixteenth century, to which alone five volumes are devo ...

H. P. C. Henke (d. 1809) is the leading representative of the rationalistic church historiography, which ignores Christ in histo ...

notes. The chief excellence of this invaluable and indispensable work is in its very carefully selected and critically elucidate ...

vol.), and of the Trinity and Incarnation (1841–’43, in 3 vols.), and his masterly vindication of Protestantism against Möhler’s ...

somewhat diminished by polemical bias and the occasional want of accuracy. Dr. Merle conceived the idea of the work during the c ...

fall, though some "lonely traveller from New Zealand," taking his stand on "a broken arch" of the bridge of St. Angelo, may sket ...

and Latin Christianity, with special reference to its bearing on the progress of civilization.^41 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (d. 188 ...