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| The defence against error lodged in the Magisterium, |
387 |
| The Magisterium lies in the Church’s divine government and concrete life, |
388 |
| Athanasius as the expounder of it; his fundamental idea, |
389 |
| His Statement as to the authority of Scripture, |
391 |
| As to the Rule of Faith, |
392 |
| As to private judgment, |
393 |
| His tests of heresy, |
393 |
| Definitions, |
394 |
| How the Magisterium embraces Scripture and Tradition, and employs them as a joint rule, |
395 |
| Testimony of the Council of Arles to the above principles, |
397 |
| And Constantine’s public recognition that the Magisterium of Christ is lodged in the Bishops, |
398 |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
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| The Church’s Battle for Independence over against the Roman Empire. |
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| Alliance of the Two Powers in the Roman Empire at the Advent of Christ, |
400 |
| The Emperor official guardian of all religions, |
401 |
| The Christian religion a singular exception, |
403 |
| Its cause the position of Christians towards heathendom, |
404 |
| Contradiction in belief, worship, and government, |
405 |
| The Christian people as the outcome of these three constituents, |
411 |
| The course of the Roman Empire and the Christian Church in three hundred years, |
414 |
| The ten persecutions from Nero to Diocletian, |
417 |
| The Martyrs champions of a great army, |
421 |
| St. Paul’s account of this army’s creation, |
422 |
| The wonder of this creation, |
424 |
| Supernatural character of the conversion wrought in these times, |
426 |
| Accounted for only by the internal action of the Holy Ghost, |
427 |
| Power of the κήρυγμα insisted on by Clement of Alexandria, |
429 |
| Contrasted by him with the impotence of philosophy, |
430 |
| Sufferings which followed on conversion according to Tertullian, |
431 |
| Martyrs enduring or God what heroes endured for goods of nature, |
432 |
| Origen insists on the divine power shown in converting sinners, |
434 |
| On miracles of conversion as greater than bodily miracles, |
435 |
| The spread of the Church and the conversion of sinners viewed together, |
436 |
| Miracles only could account for the spread of the Church, |
437 |
| Statement of Irenæus as to miraculous powers exercised in his time, |
438 |
| Athanasius on the cessation of idolatry, oracles, and magic, |
440 |
| And on the greatness of the conversion wrought by Christ, |
442 |
| The necessity of miracles in proof of our Lord’s mission, |
444 |
| The connection between miracles and martyrdom, |
445 |
| Parallel between them as to their principle, witness, power, and perpetuity, |
449 |
| How the liberty of the Church was gained against the empire, |
455 |
| How the Martyrs constructed a basis for civil liberty, |
456 |
| The five conflicts of the Church with Judaism, Heresy, Idolatry, Philosophy, and the Roman State, |
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