History of the Christian Church: Mediaeval Christianity from Gregory I to Gregory VII, A.D. 590-1073

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C. Scribner's, 1890
 

Contents

Conformity to Rome Established Wilfrid Theodore Bede
39
Conversion of Ireland St Patrick St Bridget Critical Note on St Patrick
48
The Irish Church after St Patrick
52
Subjection of Ireland to English and Roman Rule
58
Conversion of Scotland St Ninian and St Kentigern
61
St Columba and the Monastery of Iona
64
19
72
Extinction of the Keltic Church and Triumph of Rome under King David I
75
The Conversion of France Germany and Adjacent Countries General Literature
77
22
80
Columbanus and the Irish Missionaries on the Continent
84
German Missionaries before Boniface
89
Boniface the Apostle of Germany
92
Pupils of Boniface Willibald Gregory of Utrecht Sturm of Fulda
100
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102
The Conversion of Scandinavia General Literature
106
Scandinavian Heathenism
107
Christianization of Denmark St Ansgar
110
30
118
Christianization of Norway and Iceland
120
The Christianization of the Slavs 32 General Survey
124
Christian Missions among the Wends
126
Cyrillus and Methodius the Apostles of the Slavs Christianiza tion of Moravia Bohemia and Poland
128
35
134
Conversion of the Magyars
135
37
138
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143
Statistics and Chronological Table
148
Position of Mohammedanism in Church History
150
The Home and the Antecedents of Islâm
155
Life and Character of Mohammed
160
The Conquests of Islam
171
The Koran and the Bible
174
The Mohammedan Religion
183
CHAPTER IV
201
39
211
Gregory and the Universal Episcopate
218
43
220
The Writings of Gregory
225
From Gregory II to Zacharias A D 715741
231
Founding of the Holy Roman Empire A D 800 Charlemagne
250
The Papacy and the Empire from the Death of Charlemagne
264
Nicolas I April 858Nov 13 867
273
Degradation of the Papacy in the Tenth Century
279
Interference of Otho the Great
288
Henry III and the Synod of Sutri Deposition of Three Rival
299
The Ordeal
348
Christian Charity
355
CHAPTER VII
363
The Convent of Chuny
369
Ecclesiastical Punishments Excommunication Anathema
376
CHAPTER IX
386
Church Poetry Greek Hymns and Hymnists
397
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The Organ and the Bell
439
The Restoration of ImageWorship and the Seventh Ecumenical
459

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Page 450 - Gentiles who placed their hope in idols; but because the honor which is shown them is referred to the prototypes which those images represent; in such wise that by the images which we kiss, and before which we uncover the head, and prostrate ourselves, we adore Christ; and we venerate the saints, whose likeness they bear: as, by the decrees of Councils, and especially of the second Synod of Nicaea.
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