SKETCHES

OF

CHURCH HISTORY.

From A.D. 33 to the Reformation.

BY THE LATE
Rev. J. C. ROBERTSON, M.A.
CANON OF CANTERBURY.

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PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

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LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
26, ST. GEORGE’S PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER, S.W.
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET.
New York: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.
1887.

C O N T E N T S.

PART I

CHAPTER

1. The Age of the Apostles
2. St. Ignatius
3. St. Justin, Martyr
4. St. Polycarp
5. The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne
6. Tertullian–Perpetua and her Companions
7. Origen
8. St Cyprian–Part I —Part II —Part III
9. The Last Persecution
10. Constantine the Great
11. The Council of Nicaea
12. St. Athanasius–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

1. The Monks
2. St. Basil and St. Gregory of Naz.–Part I

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Part II

1. St. Ambrose
2. The Temple of Serapis
3. Church Government
4. Christian Worship–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

1. Arcadius and Honorius
2. St. John Chrysostom–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Part IV

1. St. Augustine–Part I

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Part II

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Part III (Donatism)

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Part IV

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Part V

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Part VI (Pelagianism)

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Part VII

1. Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon
2. Fall of the Western Empire
3. Conversion of the Barbarians– Christianity in Britain
4. Scotland and Ireland
5. Clovis
6. Justinian
7. Nestorians and Monophysites
8. St. Benedict–Part I

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Part II

1. End of the Sixth Century
2. St. Gregory the Great–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Part IV

PART II

1. Mahometanism; Image worship
2. The Church in England
3. St. Boniface
4. Pipin and Charles the Great–Part I

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Part II

1. Decay of Charles the Great’s Empire
2. State of the Papacy
3. Missions of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
4. Pope Gregory VII –Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Part IV

1. The First Crusade–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

1. New Orders of Monks–Military Orders
2. St. Bernard–Part I

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Part II

1. Adrian IV

–Alexander III –Becket –The Third Crusade

1. Innocent III–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Part IV

1. Frederick II–St. Lewis of France–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

1. Peter of Murrone
2. Boniface VIII–Part I

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Part II

1. The Popes at Avignon –Ruin of the Templars–Part I

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Part II

1. The Popes at Avignon (continued)
2. Religious Parties
3. John Wyclif
4. The Popes return to Rome
5. The Great Schism
6. John Huss
7. The Council of Constance–Part I

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Part II

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Part III

1. The Hussites
2. Councils of Basel and Florence
3. Nicolas V and Pius II
4. Jerome Savonarola–Part I

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Part II

1. Julius II and Leo X
2. Missions–The Inquisition

TABLE OF DATES

PART I

PART II