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The Church of the Fathers: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 98 to A.D. 461 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Church of the Fathers outlines the history of the church from AD 98 to AD 461. Leighton Pullan divides this volume into two sections: the period before the conversion of Constantine and the period of the first four ecumenical councils. Among the many topics discussed in this volume are rivals of Christianity, persecution of the church, paganism and heresy, the church and the state, the...

worshippers of the gods acknowledged among you”; (2) Jews; (3) Christians. The first class is subdivided into Chaldeans, Greeks, and Egyptians, the object being to work up to a climax of superstition. This is done very effectively by mentioning the Egyptian worship of the pig and the crocodile. The author brushes aside the explanation that the chronicles of the gods are only nature-myths. “For, if the stories about them be mythical, the gods are nothing more than mere names.” Judaism is temperately
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