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Early History Of The Christian Church, From Its Foundation To The End Of The Fifth Century - Vol III (Paperback)
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Early History Of The Christian Church, From Its Foundation To The End Of The Fifth Century - Vol III (Paperback)
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PREFACE THE fifth is a melancholy century a century of ruin and of
tottering to a fall. The Roman Empire collapses in the West beneath
the weight of assailants more unconscious of their strength than
malignant in intention, the victim of its own internal weakness
rather than of the blows which it received. In the East it still
holds its ground, because it has not been seriously attacked.
Though not as yet hemmed in by SIavs on the one side and Arabs on
the other, it struggles without against the pressure of the
barbarian and the menacing proximity of Persia, and within its own
borders against centrifugal elements which begin to notify to it in
Coptic, in Syriac, and in Armenian their defection from a hegemony
which was Greek. The Church might have lent its aid in overcoming
the forces of disintegration, but the Church too is in convulsion.
It wins, it is true, a decisive triumph over Paganism but this
victory is itself the source of tremendous difficulties for the
Church in adjustment to the position. Every one is Christian, Could
every one be so in reality To this question the monks returned a
deniaI often extravagant in its absence of qualification. Other
people made the best they could of the situation and tolerated in
the practice of the Christian life a distortion of the noble ideal
of early days. In the field of doctrine rival schools dash
themselves into collision, parties wax hot and engage in strife.
The lesson of the century before and of its deplorable dissensions
goes absolutely for nothing. Men whose opinions are at bottom the
same, anathematize each other for modes of expressing them. Rather
than yield on the use of words they set Alexandria in conflict with
Constantinople, the East with the West. Christian unity is
sacrificed to the unprofitable defence of personal feeling. Still,
we must not exaggerate the details....
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