
The Early Christians in Rome
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The persecution of Christians within the Roman Empire occurred intermittently during two centuries between the Great Fire of Rome (64 AD) under Nero until the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, put in place by the emperor Constantine the Great which granted religious toleration to all faiths including Christians. In this text Henry Donald Maurice Spence (an Anglican Dean of Gloucester) details the lives of those early Christians and what their communities would have looked liked in 5 Book The Beginnings Of Christianity In Rome Book The Life Of A Christian In The Early Days Of The Faith Book The Inner L...
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- THE EARLY CHRISTIANS IN ROME
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- BOOK I THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY IN ROME
- PART I
- INTRODUCTORY THE JEWISH COLONY IN ROME
- I THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH IN ROME—“A”
- II A SUMMARY OF LITERARY NOTICES
- PART II
- I THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH IN ROME—“B”
- II THE FIRE OF ROME, AND ITS RESULTS AS REGARDS CHRISTIANS—A.D. 64. HENCEFORTH THEY WERE REGARDED AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE
- III SILENCE RESPECTING PERSECUTION
- PART III CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PLINY AND TRAJAN
- PLINY’S LETTER TO TRAJAN AND THE EMPEROR’S “RESCRIPT”—GENUINENESS OF CORRESPONDENCE
- I THE CHARACTER OF TRAJAN
- II VOGUE OF EPISTOLARY FORM OF LITERATURE
- III VOGUE OF EPISTOLARY FORM IN LITERATURE—THE NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES
- PART IV
- I HADRIAN, A.D. 117–A.D. 138
- II HADRIAN’S POLICY TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY IN HIS CLOSING YEARS
- III ANTONINUS PIUS, A.D. 138–A.D. 161 MARCUS ANTONINUS, A.D. 161–A.D. 180
- IV REASONS OF THE PERSECUTING POLICY OF THE ANTONINES
- BOOK II THE LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FAITH
- INTRODUCTORY
- I LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN IN THE EARLY DAYS
- II THE ASSEMBLIES OF CHRISTIANS
- III OF WHOM WERE THESE ASSEMBLIES OF BELIEVERS COMPOSED?
- IV WHAT WAS SAID AND DONE IN THESE ASSEMBLIES AND MEETINGS OF THE BRETHREN
- V THE SLAVE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LIFE
- VI DIFFICULTIES IN ORDINARY LIFE AMONG THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
- VII THE ASCETIC AND THE MORE PRACTICAL SCHOOLS OF TEACHING
- VIII WHAT THE RELIGION OF JESUS OFFERED IN RETURN FOR THE HARDSHIPS CHRISTIANS HAD TO ENDURE IN THE EARLY CENTURIES
- BOOK III THE INNER LIFE OF THE CHURCH
- PART I FROM THE DATE OF THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME IN THE REIGN OF NERO TO THE DEATH OF MARCUS ANTONINUS A.D. 64–A.D. 180
- Introductory
- I FIRST GROUP OF QUOTATIONS
- II SECOND GROUP OF QUOTATIONS
- PART II THE TRAINING FOR MARTYRDOM
- Introductory
- I
- II
- PART III THE GREAT NUMBER OF MARTYRS IN THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS
- Introductory
- I
- II
- III
- BOOK IV THE ROMAN CATACOMBS
- THE ROMAN CATACOMBS
- Introductory
- PART I
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I.—ON S. PETRONILLA
- APPENDIX II.—ON S. PETER’S TOMB
- PART II TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT DISCOVERIES
- CRYPT OF S. CECILIA—THE BURIAL-PLACES OF S. FELICITAS, OF JANUARIUS, AND OF HER OTHER SONS I
- II
- III
- PART III EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS
- I
- II
- III
- AN APPENDIX TO THE EPITAPHS, ETC., OF THE CATACOMBS
- BOOK V THE JEW AND THE TALMUD
- INTRODUCTORY
- I THE HISTORY OF THE THREE WARS WHICH CLOSED THE CAREER OF JUDAISM AS A NATION
- II (a) RABBINISM
- III (b) RABBINISM
- IV THE TALMUD
- V THE TEXT OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
- VI CONCLUDING MEMORANDA
- VII (A) AN APPENDIX ON THE “HAGGADAH”
- VIII (B) ON THE “HALACHAH” AND “HAGGADAH”
- IX WOMEN’S DISABILITIES
- INDEX
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