But Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History, book i, ch.
In the province of ecclesiastical history, too, with its branches and auxiliary sciences, new life was awakened at that time.
In many departments, like the one of ecclesiastical history, there are almost no restrictions to his research, except those imposed by historical facts.
Some partial order may have been issued by the Eastern emperor; but the idea of any general law is contradicted by the silence of the Code, and the evidence of ecclesiastical history.
The evidence of ecclesiastical history is prepared to affirm, that their expectations were justified by the conspicuous miracle to which the conversion of the first Christian emperor has been almost unanimously ascribed.
The most extravagant legends, as they conduced to the honor of the church, were applauded by the credulous multitude, countenanced by the power of the clergy, and attested by the suspicious evidence of ecclesiastical history.
And, if ecclesiastical history is to be trusted, the thirty-nine articles, be they right or wrong, diverge from the primitive doctrine of the Nazarenes vastly more than even Pauline Christianity did.
The fire interrupting the rebuilding of the Jewish temple, and the death of Arius, are instances, in Ecclesiastical history, of such solemn events.
To be shocked, then, at the miracles of Ecclesiastical history, or to ridicule them for their strangeness, is no part of a scriptural philosophy (pp.
The next two works taken in hand were historical, the Universal History of Orosius and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
We cannot prosecute this part of ecclesiastical history farther; if writings of any literary importance had been produced by the controversy, they would demand our attention; but this does not appear to have been the case.
For a special consideration of the evidence of a general apostasy from the Church of Christ, the student must consult authorities on ecclesiastical history.
The Abbe Fleury, author of the "Ecclesiastical History," pays more respect to truth in all which concerns the laws and usages of the Church.
Many manuscripts of the "Ecclesiastical History" contain a letter by one Cuthbert to his fellow-student Cuthwine, describing the manner of Bede's death.
Footnote 21: The vith Discourse of Fleury on Ecclesiastical History (p.
Footnote 63: In his Dissertations on Ecclesiastical History, the learned Mosheim has separately discussed this pretended miracle, (tom.
The president attends morning and evening prayers with the students in the chapel, and often delivers lectures to them on ecclesiastical history, on the doctrines of the Christian religion, or other important subjects.
While at Andover he had leisure for reading, and that part of it which he devoted to Ecclesiastical History had an important influence as it turned out, in deciding his future ecclesiastical connection.
He particularly devoted himself to an independent study of ecclesiastical history, a subject very indifferently taught in Roman Catholic Germany at that time.
This does not appear to have been altogether the case; for, very early in his professorial career at Munich, the Jesuits attacked his teaching of ecclesiastical history, and the celebrated J.
Such would have been the fate of England also, had it not been for a single book, 'Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
Montfaucon has also devoted two essays to the moral condition of the Eastern world, one of which is given in Jortin's Remarks on Ecclesiastical History.
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