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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Author: Thomas W. Allies Release Date: October 30, 2010 [Ebook 34172] Language: English ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM, VOLUME VII*** Peter's Rock In Mohammed's Flood From St. Gregory The Great to St. Leo III. Being the Seventh Volume of The Formation of Christendom By Thomas W. Allies, K.C.S.G. London: Burns & Oats, Ld. New York: Catholic Publication Society Co. 1890 [v] Prologue To The Seven Volumes Of The Formation Of Christendom. This work being from the beginning one in idea, I place here together the titles of the fifty-six chapters composing it. For each of these was intended to be complete in itself, so far as its special subject reached; but each was likewise to form a distinct link in a chain. The Church of God comes before the thoughtful mind as the vast mass of a kingdom. Its greatest deeds are but parts of something immeasurably greater. The most striking evidence of its doctrines and of its works is cumulative. Those who do not wish to let it so come before them often confine their interest in very narrow bounds of time and space. Thus I have known one, who thought himself a bishop, accept Wycliffe as the answer of a child to his question, Who first preached the Gospel in England? And not only this. They also seize upon a particular incident, or person, and so invest with extraordinary importance facts which they suppose, and which so conceived are convenient for their purpose, but in historical truth are anything but undisputed. In this tone of mind, or shortness of vision, that which is gigantic becomes puny, that which is unending becomes transient. The sequel and coherence of nations, the [vi] mighty roll of the ages spoken of by St. Augustine, are lost sight of. Again, in English-speaking countries alone more than two hundred sects call themselves Christian. Their enjoyment of perfect civil freedom and equality veils to them the horror of doctrinal anarchy, in virtue of which alone they exist. By this anarchy the very conception of unity as the corollary of truth is lost to the popular mind. But through the eight centuries of which I have treated, the loss of unity was the one conclusive test of 3 falsehood, and the Christian Faith stood out to its possessors with the fixed solidity of a mountain range whose summit pierced the heaven. It has been my purpose to exhibit the profound unity of the Christian Faith together with the infinite variety of its effects on individual character, on human society, on the action of nations towards each other, on universal as well as national legislation. Like the figure of the great Mother of God bearing her Divine Son in her arms, and so including the Incarnation and all its works, the Faith stands before us in history, “veste deaurata, circumdata varietate”. And as the personal unity appears in the symbol of the Divine Love to man expressed in her Maternity, so it appears also in the figure of the Church through the ages in which that Divine Love executes His work. A divided creed means a marred gospel and an incredulous world. I offer this work as a single stone, though costing the labour of thirty years, if perchance it may be accepted in the structure of that Cathedral of human thought and action wherein our Crucified God is the central figure, around which all has grown. [vii] Be it allowed me to quote here words of the present Sovereign Pontiff addressed on the 18th August, 1883, to the Cardinals de Luca, Pitra, and Hergenröther:— “It is the voice of all history that God with the most careful providence directs the various and never-ending movements of human affairs. Even against man's intention he makes them serve the advancement of His Church. History says further that the Roman Pontificate has ever escaped victorious from its contests and the violence employed against it, while its assaulters have failed in the hope which they cherished, and have wrought their own destruction. Not less openly does history attest the divine provision made concerning the city of Rome from its very beginning. This was to give for ever a home and seat to the successors of St. Peter, from which as a centre, being free from all control of a superior, they 4 The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII might guide the whole Christian commonwealth. And no one has ventured to resist this counsel of the divine Providence without sooner or later perceiving the vanity of his efforts. “It cannot be expedient, nor is it wise counsel, to fight with a power for whose perpetuity God has pledged Himself, while history attests the performance of the pledge. Since Catholics throughout the whole world pay it religious veneration, it is their interest to defend it with all their power. Nay even the rulers of secular governments must acknowledge this, and lay it to heart, especially in times so dangerous, when the very foundations on which human society rests appear well nigh to shake and totter.” [ix] Contents To The Seven Volumes Of The Formation Of Christendom. VOLUME I. INAUGURAL LECTURE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, 1854.—THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE INDIVIDUAL. CHAPTER I. The Consummation of the Old World. CHAPTER II. The New Creation of Individual Man. CHAPTER III. Heathen and Christian Man compared. CHAPTER IV. Effect of the Christian People on the World. CHAPTER V. New Creation of the Primary Relation between Man and Woman. CHAPTER VI. The Creation of the Virginal Life. [x] VOLUME II. THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND SOCIETY. CHAPTER VII. The gods of the Nations when Christ appeared. CHAPTER VIII. The First and the Second Man. CHAPTER IX. The Second Man verified in history. CHAPTER X. The First Age of the Martyr Church. 6 The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII CHAPTER XI. The Second Age of the Martyr Church. CHAPTER XII. The Third Age of the Martyr Church. CHAPTER XIII. The Christian Church and the Greek Philosophy, I. CHAPTER XIV. The Christian Church and the Greek Philosophy, II. VOLUME III. THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY. CHAPTER XV. The Foundation of the Roman Church, the Type and Form of every particular Church; its contrast with Philosophy, and its [xi] development of the Judaic embryo. CHAPTER XVI. Neostoicism and the Christian Church. CHAPTER XVII. The First Resurrection of Cultured Heathenism in the Neopythagorean School. CHAPTER XVIII. Standing-ground of Philosophy from the accession of Nerva to that of Severus. CHAPTER XIX. The Gospel of Philosophic Heathenism. CHAPTER XX. The Neoplatonic Philosophy and Epoch. CHAPTER XXI. The respective power of the Greek Philosophy and the Christian Church to construct a Society. CHAPTER XXII. The Church reconstructing the Natural Order by the Supernatural. VOLUME IV. 7 CHURCH AND STATE IN THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM. CHAPTER XXIII. Prologue.—The Kingdom as prophesied and as fulfilled. CHAPTER XXIV. Relation between the Civil and the Spiritual Powers from Adam to Christ. CHAPTER XXV. Relation between the Spiritual and the Civil Powers after Christ. [xii] CHAPTER XXVI. Transmission of Spiritual Authority from the Person of our Lord to Peter and the Apostles, as set forth in the New Testament. CHAPTER XXVII. Transmission of Spiritual Authority as witnessed in the history of the Church from A.D. 29 to A.D. 325. CHAPTER XXVIII. The One Episcopate resting upon the One Sacrifice. CHAPTER XXIX. Independence of the Antenicene Church shown in her organic growth. CHAPTER XXX. Independence of the Antenicene Church shown in her mode of positive teaching and in her mode of resisting error. CHAPTER XXXI. The Church's battle for independence over against the Roman Empire. VOLUME V. THE THRONE OF THE FISHERMAN BUILT BY THE CARPENTER'S SON, THE ROOT, THE BOND, AND THE CROWN OF CHRISTENDOM. CHAPTER XXXII. The witness of Eighteen Centuries to the See of Peter. CHAPTER XXXIII. 8 The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII From St. Peter to St. Sylvester, No. 1. CHAPTER XXXIV. [xiii] From St. Peter to St. Sylvester, No. 2. CHAPTER XXXV. Constantine and the Church. CHAPTER XXXVI. Constantine and his Sons: Julian, Valentinian, Valens. CHAPTER XXXVII. From Constantine at Nicæa to Theodosius at Constantinople. CHAPTER XXXVIII. Church and State under the Theodosian House. CHAPTER XXXIX. Church and State and the Primacy from 380 to 440. CHAPTER XL. The flowering of Patristic Literature, No. 1. CHAPTER XLI. The flowering of Patristic Literature, No. 2. CHAPTER XLII. St. Leo the Great. VOLUME VI. THE HOLY SEE AND THE WANDERING OF THE NATIONS: LEO I. TO GREGORY I. CHAPTER XLIII. The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations. CHAPTER XLIV. Cæsar fell down. CHAPTER XLV. [xiv] Peter stood up. CHAPTER XLVI. Justinian. CHAPTER XLVII. St. Gregory the Great. VOLUME VII. PETER'S ROCK IN MOHAMMED'S FLOOD. 9 CHAPTER XLVIII. The Pope and the Byzantine. CHAPTER XLIX. Pope Martin: his Council, and his Martyrdom. CHAPTER L. Heraclius betrays the Faith, and cuts his empire in two. CHAPTER LI. Christendom and Islam. CHAPTER LII. Old Rome and New Rome. CHAPTER LIII. An Emperor-Priest and four great Popes. CHAPTER LIV. 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