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

CHAPTER III
143
Position of Mohammedanism in Church History
150
The Home and the Antecedents of Islâm
157
Gregory the Great A D 590604
215
The Writings of Gregory
225
From Gregory II to Zacharias A D 715741
231
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
299
MORALS AND RELIGION
326
100
356
CHAPTER VII
363
CHAPTER VIII
371
CHAPTER IX
386
CHAPTER X
397
The Sermon
399
Church Poetry
402
THE CONVERSION OF THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN BARBARIANS
416
Latin Hymns and Hymnists
420
The Seven Sacraments
436
The Organ and the Bell
439
102
441
The Worship of Saints
442
The Worship of Images Literature Different Theories
447
The Iconoclastic War and the Synod of 754
454
17
460
Iconoclastic Reaction and Final Triumph of ImageWorship A D 842
464
35
472
106
473
CHAPTER XI
475
The PROCESSION of the Holy Spirit
477
The Arguments for and against the Filioque
484
The MONOTHELETIC Controversy Literature
489
110
490
History of Monotheletism and Dyotheletism
494
The Sixth Ecumenical Council A D 680
499
The Heresy of Honorius
500
Concilium Quinisextum A D 692
507
Reaction of Monotheletism The Maronites
510
The ADOPTIONIST Controversy Literature
511
History of Adoptionism
513
118
517
The PREDESTINARIAN Controversy Literature
523
120
525
Gottschalk and Hincmar
528
124
543
The Theory of Paschasius Radbertus
546
The Theory of Ratramnus
549
128
554
Berengars Theory of the Lords Supper
564
Lanfranc and the Triumph of Transubstantiation
567
264
573
37
577
The Euchites and other Sects in the East
578
The New Manichæans in the West
580
134
583

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