History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.

Whether one or thousands eat, All receive the self-same meat, Nor the less for others leave. "Sumunt boni, sumunt mali, Sorte ta ...

five thousand is spiritually carried on in the vital union of Christ and the believer, and culminates in the sacramental feast. ...

The Paulicians^753 are the most important sect in our period. They were confined to the territory of the Eastern church. They fl ...

a stable (867), but was killed by the Greeks in 871, and the sect had to submit to the Emperor Basil the Macedonian. He sent amo ...

as "apostles" and "prophets." There is no trace of the Manichaean distinction between two classes of the electi and credentes. ( ...

Jacob, in 1002, who preached against the corruptions in the Armenian church, but was branded, exposed to public scorn, imprisone ...

appeared to that age as a continuation or revival of the Manichaean heresy.^762 The connecting link is the dualistic principle. ...

§ 134. Literature. Comp. the list of works in vol. II. 621 sqq. I. The ecclesiastical writers of this period are collected for t ...

(5) For Spain: The works of Isidore of Seville. Comp. Balmez: European Civilization, in Spanish, Barcelona, 1842–44, in 4 vols.; ...

§ 136. Learning in the Eastern Church. The Eastern church had the advantage over the Western in the knowledge of the Greek langu ...

exaggeration, "held in their lifeless hands the riches of the fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and impro ...

§ 137. Christian Platonism and the Pseudo-Dionysian Writings. Literature. I. Best ed. of Pseudo-Dionysius in Greek and Latin by ...

Paris, between Greek philosophy and Christian theology, and acquired an almost apostolic authority. He furnishes one of the most ...

Severians quoted them as an authority for their Monophysitic Christology and against the Council of Chalcedon; and in reply to t ...

"venerable alike for his antiquity and for the sublimity of the heavenly mysteries" with which he dealt.^779 Pope Nicolas I. com ...

abounds in repetitions; he covers the poverty of thought with high-sounding phrases; he uses the terminology of the Hellenic mys ...

which, like the parables of our Lord, serve the double purpose of revealing the truth to the holy and hiding it from the profane ...

in Egypt the miraculous solar eclipse at the time of the crucifixion:^791 "Either the God of nature is suffering, or He sympathi ...

better.^797 Corruption of morals went hand in hand with ignorance. It is re-ported that when the papacy had sunk to the lowest d ...

The libraries of conventual and cathedral schools were often limited to half a dozen or a dozen volumes, such as a Latin Bible o ...