Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)

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CHURCH HISTORY.

BY PROFESSOR KURTZ.

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION FROM LATEST REVISED EDITION BY THE REV. JOHN MACPHERSON, M.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III.

SECOND EDITION.

London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXCIII.

BUTLER & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS, FROME, AND LONDON.

CONTENTS.

THIRD DIVISION. (Continued.)

SECOND SECTION.

CHURCH HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

I. Relations between the Different Churches.

§ 152. EAST AND WEST. (1) Roman Catholic Hopes. (2) Calvinistic Hopes. (3) Orthodox Constancy.

§ 153. CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. (1) Conversions of Protestant Princes. (2) The Restoration in Germany and the Neighbouring States. (3) Livonia and Hungary. (4) The Huguenots in France. (5) The Waldensians in Piedmont. (6) The Catholics in England and Ireland. (7) Union Efforts. (8) The Lehnin Prophecy.

§ 154. LUTHERANISM AND CALVINISM. (1) Calvinizing of Hesse-Cassel, A.D. 1605-1646. (2) Calvinizing of Lippe, A.D. 1602. (3) The Elector of Brandenburg becomes Calvinist, A.D. 1613. (4) Union Attempts.

§ 155. ANGLICANISM AND PURITANISM. (1) The First Two Stuarts. (2) The Commonwealth and the Protector. (3) The Restoration and the Act of Toleration.

II. The Roman Catholic Church.

§ 156. THE PAPACY, MONKERY, AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. (1) The Papacy. (2) The Jesuits and the Republic of Venice. (3) The Gallican Liberties. (4) Galileo and the Inquisition. (5) The Controversy on the Immaculate Conception. (6) The Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (7) New Congregations and Orders. 1. Benedictine Congregation of St. Banne. 2. Benedictine Congregation of St. Maur. 3. The Fathers of the Oratory of Jesus. 4. The Piarists. 5. The Order of the Visitation of Mary. (8) 6. The Priests of the Missions and Sisters of Charity. 7. The Trappists. 8. The English Nuns. (9) The Propaganda. (10) Foreign Missions. (11) In the East Indies. (12) In China. (13) Trade and Industry of the Jesuits. (14) An Apostate to Judaism.

§ 157. QUIETISM AND JANSENISM. (1) Francis de Sales and Madame Chantal. (2) Michael Molinos. (3) Madame Guyon and Fénelon. (4) Mysticism Tinged with Theosophy and Pantheism. (5) Jansenism in its first Stage.

§ 158. SCIENCE AND ART IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. (1) Theological Science. (2) Church History. (3) Art and Poetry.

III. The Lutheran Church.

§ 159. ORTHODOXY AND ITS BATTLES. (1) Christological Controversies. 1. The Cryptist and Kenotist Controversy. 2. The Lütkemann Controversy. (2) The Syncretist Controversy. (3) The Pietist Controversy in its First Stage. (4) Theological Literature. (5) Dogmatics.

§ 160. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. (1) Mysticism and Asceticism. (2) Mysticism and Theosophy. (3) Sacred Song. (4) ---- Its 17th Century Transition. (5) Sacred Music. (6) The Christian Life of the People. (7) Missions.

IV. The Reformed Church.

§ 161. THEOLOGY AND ITS BATTLES. (1) Preliminaries of the Arminian Controversy. (2) The Arminian Controversy. (3) Consequences of the Arminian Controversy. (4) The Cocceian and Cartesian Controversies. (5) ---- Continued. (6) Theological Literature. (7) Dogmatic Theology. (8) The Apocrypha Controversy.

§ 162. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. (1) England and Scotland. (2) ---- Political and Social Revolutionists. (3) ---- Devotional Literature. (4) The Netherlands. (5) ---- Voetians and Cocceians. (6) France, Germany, and Switzerland. (7) Foreign Missions.

V. Anti- and Extra-Ecclesiastical Parties.

§ 163. SECTS AND FANATICS. (1) The Socinians. (2) The Baptists of the Continent. 1. The Dutch Baptists. 2. The Moravian Baptists. (3) The English Baptists. (4) The Quakers. (5) ---- Continued. (6) The Quaker Constitution. (7) Labadie and the Labadists. (8) ---- Continued. (9) Fanatical Sects. (10) Russian Sects.

§ 164. PHILOSOPHERS AND FREETHINKERS. (1) Philosophy. (2) ---- Continued. (3) Freethinkers--England. (4) ---- Germany and France.

THIRD SECTION.

CHURCH HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

I. The Catholic Church in East and West.

§ 165. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. (1) The Popes. (2) Old and New Orders. (3) Foreign Missions. (4) The Counter-Reformation. (5) In France. (6) Conversions. (7) The Second Stage of Jansenism. (8) The Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands. (9) Suppression of the Order of Jesuits, A.D. 1773. (10) Anti-hierarchical Movements in Germany and Italy. (11) Theological Literature. (12) In Italy. (13) The German-Catholic Contribution to the Illumination. (14) The French Contribution to the Illumination. (15) The French Revolution. (16) The Pseudo-Catholics--The Abrahamites or Bohemian Deists. (17) ---- The Frankists.

§ 166. THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES. (1) The Russian State Church. (2) Russian Sects. (3) The Abyssinian Church.

II. The Protestant Churches.

§ 167. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH BEFORE “THE ILLUMINATION.” (1) The Pietist Controversies after the Founding of the Halle University. (2) ---- Controversial Doctrines. (3) Theology. (4) Unionist Efforts. (5) Theories of Ecclesiastical Law. (6) Church Song. (7) Sacred Music. (8) The Christian Life and Devotional Literature. (9) Missions to the Heathen.

§ 168. THE CHURCH OF THE MORAVIAN BRETHREN. (1) The Founder of the Moravian Brotherhood. (2) The Founding of the Brotherhood. (3) The Development of the Brotherhood down to Zinzendorf’s Death, A.D. 1727-1760. (4) Zinzendorf’s Plan and Work. (5) Numerous Extravagances. (6) Zinzendorf’s Greatness. (7) The Brotherhood under Spangenberg’s Administration. (8) The Doctrinal Peculiarities of the Brotherhood. (9) The Peculiarities of Worship among the Brethren. (10) Christian Life of the Brotherhood. (11) Missions to the Heathen.

§ 169. THE REFORMED CHURCH BEFORE THE “ILLUMINATION.” (1) The German Reformed Church. (2) The Reformed Church in Switzerland. (3) The Dutch Reformed Church. (4) Methodism. (5) ---- Continued. (6) Theological Literature.

§ 170. NEW SECTS AND FANATICS. (1) Fanatics and Separatists in Germany. (2) The Inspired Societies in Wetterau. (3) J. C. Dippel. (4) Separatists of Immoral Tendency. (5) Swedenborgianism. (6) New Baptist Sects. (7) New Quaker Sects. (8) Predestinarian-Mystical Sects.