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

1887, largely illustrated). The Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., completed 1889 in 25 vols.)

contains also many elaborate articles on biblical and ecclesiastical topics.

3. For ancient church history down to the age of Charlemagne: Smith and Cheetham,
   Dictionary of Christian Antiquities (London and Boston, 1875, 2 vols.); Smith and Wace, Dictionary
   of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines during the first eight centuries (London
   and Boston, 1877–’87, 4 vols.). The articles in these two works are written mostly by scholars of
   the Church of England, and are very valuable for fulness and accuracy of information.
   Note.—The study of church history is reviving in the Greek Church where it began. Philaret
   Bapheidos has issued a compendious church history under the title: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ̔ιστορία ἀπὸ
   τοῦ κυρίου ἡμων Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μέχρι τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς χρόνων ὑπὸ Φιλαρετοῦ Βαψείδου,
   ἀρχιμάνδρίτου Δ. Φ. καὶ καθηγητοῦ τῆς Θεολογίας ἐν τῇ ἐν Χάλκῃ Θεολογικῇ Σχολῇ. Τόμος
   πρῶτος. Ἀρχαία ̓εκκλης· ἱστορία.a.d. 1–700. Ἐν Κωνσταντινοπόλει , 1884 (Lorentz & Keil, libraries
   de S. M. I. le Sultan), 380 pp. The second vol. embraces the mediaeval church to the fall of
   Constantinople, 1453, and has 459 pp. The work is dedicated to Dr. Philotheos Bryennios,
   Metropolitan of Nicomedia, the discoverer of the famous Jerusalem Codex. Nearly all the literature
   quoted is German Protestant; no English, very few Latin, and still fewer Greek works are mentioned.
   Another compend of Church History in Greek by Diomedes Kyriakos appeared at Athens, 1881,
   in 2 vols.

FIRST PERIOD

THE CHURCH UNDER THE APOSTLES

AND HEATHEN WORLD.

FROM THE BIRTH OF CHRIST TO THE DEATH OF ST. JOHN,

a.d. 1–100

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CHAPTER I

PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH

AND HEATHEN WORLD.

Literature.

J. L. von Mosheim: Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity in the first three centuries.

1753. Transl. by Vidal and Murdock, vol. i. chs. 1 and 2 (pp. 9–82, of the N. York ed. 1853).
      Neander: Allg. Gesch. der christl. Religion und Kirche. Vol. 1st (1842). Einleit. (p. 1–116).
      J. P. Lange: Das Apost. Zeitalter. 1853, I. pp. 224–318.
      Schaff: Hist. of the Apostolic Church. pp. 137–188 (New York ed.).
      Lutterbeck (R. C.): Die N. Testamentlichen Lehrbegriffe, oder Untersuchungen über das Zeitalter
      der Religionswende, die Vorstufen des Christenthums und die erste Gestaltung desselben.
      Mainz, 1852, 2 vols.
      Döllinger (R. C.): Heidenthum und Judenthum. Vorhalle zur Geschichte des Christenthums. Regensb.


1754. Engl. transl. by N. Darnell under the title: The Gentile and the Jew in the courts of the
      Temple of Christ: an Introduction to the History of Christianity. Lond. 1862, 2 vols.
      Charles Hardwick (d. 1859): Christ and other Masters. London, 4th ed. by Procter, 1875.

A.D. 1-100.