The Rise of Church-State Alliances: Imperial Edicts & Church Councils: 306-565 The Council of Elvira in 306 Emperor Constantine, Arianism, and the Church Arianism, Apostacy, and the Times Between Constantine and Theodosius The Times of Emperor Theodosius the Great and The First General Council of Constantinople Theodosius the Younger, Pope Leo, and the General Council of Chalcedon in 451 Monophysitism, the Church and the Times from Emperors Leo thru Justin I Paganism, the Church, and the Times of Emperor Justinian Ulrich Zwingli and the Protestant Alliance of Church and State HOME PAGE MORE ARTICLES & COMMENTARY: The Constitution and the Commandments The Classical Temple Architecture of Washington, DC A History of Religious Tests Ulrich Zwingli and the Protestant Alliance of Church and State The Bible and the Quran: A Scriptural Comparison Religious Right vs Suffrage Religious Right vs Interracial Marriages Religious Right vs Abolition Homosexuality and Social Conservatism as a Tool of the State Einstein's Religion Ring Species, Evolution and why Intelligent Design Theory isn't science The Changing Religious Identification of the USA Moral Hypocrisy in the Bible Belt: CDC & FBI stats Who am I and Why this project? Contact Me INFO & EYE OPENERS FROM OTHERS: Court Holdings Historical Revisionism: On David Barton's Christian Nation Biblical Archeology Review Special: Captivity, Exodus, and Conquest Sexual orientation in nature The Biological Basis of Morality by Edward O. Wilson RELIGIOUS LIBERTY STUDIES SOURCES ARE IN TEXT FORMAT BELOW THE TABLE OF CONTENTS Go to Page 2: CHURCH COUNCILS

======================================== PRIMARY SOURCE LIBRARIES ONLINE ======================================== The Internet Classics Archive at MIT http://classics.mit.edu/index.html GTU Library - Church History http://www.gtu.edu/library/links/history.html CCEL: Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org LIST: Early Church Fathers http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm IntraText Digital Library http://www.intratext.com/ Internet Medieval History Sourcebook at Fordham http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Internet Ancient History Sourcebook at fordham http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html The Byzantine Studies Page at Fordham http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/ Internet Jewish History Sourcebook at Fordham http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html ======================================== BOOKS OF INTEREST ======================================== A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, Pierre Chuvin Pagans and Chistians, Robin Lane Fox Paganism in the Roman Empire, Ramsay MacMullen Christianizing the Roman Empire, Ramsay MacMullen Chrstianity and Pagansim in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen Paganism and Christianity 100-425 CE; A Sourcebook, Ramsay MacMullen & Eugene Lane (primary sources) A World Lit by Fire, William Manchester Theodosius: The Empire at Bay, Stephen Williams & Gerard Friell The Christians As The Romans Saw Them, Robert L. Wilken The Later Roman Empire, J. B. Bury A World Full of Gods, Keith Hopkins When Jesus Became God, Richard Rubenstein The Barbarian Conversion, Richard Fletcher The Seekers, Daniel Boorstin The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas The History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond ========================================== DICTIONARIES-ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF RELIGION ========================================== Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature with section on Principal Sects and Heresies http://www.ccel.org/w/wace/biodict/htm/TOC.htm Philip Schaff's Encyclopedia of Religious knowledge http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc01/htm/iii.htm ======================================== PRIMARY SOURCES: HISTORIANS ======================================== EUSEBIUS http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-01/TOC.htm http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/eusebius/eusehe.html MALALAS SOZOMEN http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm "The Ecclesiatical History" http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/Npnf2-02-18.htm SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm "The Ecclesiastical History" http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/Npnf2-02-05.htm EVAGRIUS: -594 Ecclesiastical History 431-594 (trans E. Walford 1846) http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/evagrius_0_intro.htm Ecclesiastical History http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/evagrius_0_toc.htm MINUCIUS FELIX http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm PROCOPIUS OF CEASARIA (500-575) "The Secret History" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html Procopius of Caesarea (TOC 4 works) http://procopius.net/contents.html SULPITIUS SERVERUS "Life of Saint Martin" http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-05.htm "The Virtues of Martin" http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-13.htm "The Sacred History" http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-22.htm THE VENERABLE BEDE "Ecclesiastical History of England" http://www.fordham.edu/halsail/basis/bede-book1.html "Conversion of England" http://www.fordham.edu/halsail/source/bede1.html "Gregory the Great" http://www.fordham.edu/halsail/source/bede-greggrea.html JOHN OF EPHESUS Ecclesiastical History, Part 3 http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/ephesus_0_toc.htm SCHAFF: Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.toc.html ========================================== PAGANS ========================================== ZOSIMUS - Historian "The New History" Books 1-6 @ http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/index.htm CELSUS - Philosopher Origen's Agaainst Celsus http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm Excerpts: Celsus' view of Christians and Christianity http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/celsus.htm ========================================== PRIMARY SOURCES: EARLY FATHERS ========================================== AMBROSE Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. X http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-10/TOC.htm ARNOBIUS Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-06/TOC.htm Seven Books against the Heathen - TOC http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG1008/_INDEX.HTM ATHANASIUS Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IV http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/TOC.htm ATHANIUS ATHENOGORAS Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm AUGUSTINE LIST @ Early Church Fathers http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ BASIL (of the 3 Cappadocians) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VIII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-08/TOC.htm CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm CHRYSOSTOM OF ALEXANDRIA LIST @ Early Church Fathers http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ COMMODIANUS/COMMODIAN Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA CYRIL OF JERUSALEM Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/TOC.htm Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-02.htm CYPRIAN Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/TOC.htm DIDYMUS THE BLIND DIONYSIUS Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/TOC.htm EPIPHANIUS OF SALAMIS Panarion/Adversus Haereses (Excerpts) http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/epiphanius.html EUSEBIUS OF CEASARIUS FIRMICIUS MATERNUS FULGENTIUS OF RUSPE GREGORY OF NYSSA (of the 3 Cappadocians) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. V http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-05/TOC.htm http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2901.htm GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS (of the 3 Cappadocians) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/TOC.htm Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-02.htm GREGORY THE GREAT (Pope) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-12/TOC.htm Epistles: Medieval Sourcebook texts http://fordham.edu/halsail/source/greg1a.html HILARY OF POITIERS Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IX http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-09/TOC.htm HERMIAS HYPOLYTUS IRAENEUS Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm Proof of Apostolic teaching http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/irenaeus_00_proof_eintro.htm Adversus Haereses http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm ISADORE OF SEVILLE JEROME Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VI http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-06/TOC.htm http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.toc.html JUSTIN MARTYR Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm JOHN OF DAMASCUS Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IX http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-09/TOC.htm LACTANTIUS Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/TOC.htm LEO THE GREAT I (Pope) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XII http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-12/TOC.htm LEONTUS OF BYZANTINE MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR NILUS OPTATIUS OF MILEVE ORIGEN Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm OROSIUS PRUDENTIUS PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE TATIAN Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm TERTULLIAN Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/TOC.htm Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm THEODORET Early Church Fathers http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ THEOPHILUS OF ANTIOCH Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm ======================================== SOURCES ON CHURCH COUNCILS ======================================== A Compilation of primary and secondary sources on Church Councils @ http://community.webtv.net/Tales_of_the_Western_World/SYNOD ======================================== SECONDARY HISTORY SOURCES ======================================== JOHN BURNET: Early Greek Philosophy (1920): http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ EDWARD GIBBON: The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (17----) http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/home.html JACOB BURCKHARDT: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html PHILIP SCHAFF: History of the Christian Church (1882) http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/About.htm SCHAFF INDEX http://www.ccel.org/search/keyword_search.pl?a=search&keywords=Schaff BERNARD LAZARE: Antisemitism, Its History and Causes (1894) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/lazare-anti.html SANFORD H. COBB: The Rise of Religious Liberty in America.(1902) http://www.dinsdoc.com/cobb-1-0a.htm PHILIP HUGHS: A History Of The Church (1934) http://www.netacc.net/~mafg/book/v1toc.htm http://www.netacc.net/~mafg/book/v2toc.htm A History of the General Councils 325-1870 http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/coun1.html SANDERSON BECK: http://www.san.beck.org ======================================== INTERNET HISTORY SITES ======================================== Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/ancient.html Lectures on Early Modern European History http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/earlymod.html Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/intellect.html The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/ Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis http://www.roman-emperors.org Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html Internet Jewish History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html The Library of Iberian Resources: Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain http://libro.uca.edu/mckenna/ World Cultures and World History http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/WORLD.HTM Frank Smitha's World History http://www.fsmitha.com The Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org The Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.JewishEncyclopedia.com The Roman Empire http://www.roman-empire.net/index.html Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis http://www.roman-emperors.org LacusCurtius • A Gateway to Ancient Rome http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

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