Church History (Vol.1-3) - J. H. Kurtz

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       J. H. Kurtz

      Church History (Vol.1-3)

      Complete Edition

      e-artnow, 2020

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066399016

      Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

       Volume 3

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       HISTORY OF THE PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY. The pre-Christian World preparing the way of the Christian Church.

       THE HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS. The Founding of the Church by Christ and His Apostles.

       I. THE LIFE OF JESUS.

       II. THE APOSTOLIC AGE. A.D. 30–70.

       FIRST DIVISION. History of the Development of the Church during the Græco-Roman and Græco-Byzantine Periods. FIRST SECTION. History of the Græco-Roman Church during the Second and Third Centuries (A.D. 70–323).18

       I. THE RELATIONSHIP OF EXTRA-CHRISTIAN PAGANISM AND JUDAISM TO THE CHURCH.21

       II. DANGER TO THE CHURCH FROM PAGAN AND JEWISH ELEMENTS WITHIN ITS OWN PALE.

       III. THE DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT AND APOLOGETICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH.52

       1. Church Fathers Writing in Greek.

       2. Church Fathers Writing in Latin.

       IV. CONSTITUTION, WORSHIP, LIFE AND DISCIPLINE.94

       SECOND SECTION. The History of the Græco-Roman Church from the 4th-7th centuries. A.D. 323–692.

       I. CHURCH AND STATE.

       II. MONASTICISM, CLERICALISM AND HIERARCHISM.

       III. THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND LITERATURE.

       1. THE MOST IMPORTANT TEACHERS OF THE EASTERN CHURCH.

       2. THE MOST IMPORTANT TEACHERS OF THE WESTERN CHURCH.

       IV. DOCTRINAL CONTROVERSIES AND HERESIES.

       V. WORSHIP, LIFE, DISCIPLINE AND MORALS.

       VI. THE CHURCH OUTSIDE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.185

       THIRD SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GRÆCO-BYZANTINE CHURCH IN THE 8TH−15TH CENTURIES (A.D. 692–1453).

       I. Developments of the Greek Church in Combination with the Western.

       II. Developments in the Eastern Church without the Co-operation of the Western.

       SECOND DIVISION. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN AND ROMAN CHURCH DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.198 FIRST SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GERMAN-ROMAN CHURCH FROM THE 4TH TO THE 9TH CENTURY (DOWN TO A.D. 911).

       I. Founding, Spread, and Limitation of the German Church.199

       II. THE HIERARCHY, THE CLERGY AND THE MONKS.

       III. THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE.

       IV. THEOLOGY AND ITS BATTLES.

       Footnotes.

      INTRODUCTION.

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      § 1. Idea and Task of Church History.

      The Christian Church is to be defined as the one, many-branched communion, consisting of all those who confess that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ who in the fulness of time appeared as the Saviour of the world. It is the Church’s special task to render the saving work of Christ increasingly fruitful for all nations and individuals, under all the varying conditions of life and stages of culture. It is the task of Church History to describe the course of development through which the Church as a whole, as well as its special departments and various institutions, has passed, from the time of its foundation down to our own day; to show what have been the Church’s advances and retrogressions, how it has been furthered and hindered; and to tell the story of its deterioration and renewal.

      § 2. Distribution of Church History according To Contents.

      The treatment of Church History, on account of its manifold ramifications, demands a distribution of its material, on the one hand, according to definite periods, during which the end hitherto aimed at in the whole course of development has been practically attained, so that either entirely new phenomena gain prominence, or else the old go forth in an altogether different direction; on the other hand, according to the various phases of endeavour

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