An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the eighteenth century: in which the rise, progress, and variations of church power are considered in their connexion with the state of learning and philosophy and the political history of Europe during that periodBlackie & Son, 1845 - Church history |
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Page 121
... Nestorian , Arian , and Eutychian controversies were managed , or rather drawn out , on both sides , by a perpetual recourse to subtile distinctions , and captious sophisms . And no philosophy was so proper to furnish such weapons , as ...
... Nestorian , Arian , and Eutychian controversies were managed , or rather drawn out , on both sides , by a perpetual recourse to subtile distinctions , and captious sophisms . And no philosophy was so proper to furnish such weapons , as ...
Page 124
... Nestorius , and thus effaced the stain he had contracted by his personal attach- ment to that heretic , and to John of Antioch . 8 The number of these epistles amount to 2012 , which are divided into five books . They are short , but ...
... Nestorius , and thus effaced the stain he had contracted by his personal attach- ment to that heretic , and to John of Antioch . 8 The number of these epistles amount to 2012 , which are divided into five books . They are short , but ...
Page 127
... Nestorian heresies ; though during his life he was held in the highest esteem , and died in the communion of the church . 11 This appears by the testimony of Cosmas Indico- pleustes , a writer of the sixth century , who was undoubt ...
... Nestorian heresies ; though during his life he was held in the highest esteem , and died in the communion of the church . 11 This appears by the testimony of Cosmas Indico- pleustes , a writer of the sixth century , who was undoubt ...
Page 130
... Nestorian controversy , that of the Virgin Mary , holding the child Jesus in her arms , obtained the first and principal place . The altars , and the chests in which the relics were preserved , were in most places made of solid silver ...
... Nestorian controversy , that of the Virgin Mary , holding the child Jesus in her arms , obtained the first and principal place . The altars , and the chests in which the relics were preserved , were in most places made of solid silver ...
Page 133
... Nestorius , a Syrian , bishop of Constantinople , a disciple of the cele- brated Theodore of Mopsuestia , and a man re- markable for his learning and eloquence , which were , however , accompanied with much tevity , and with intolerable ...
... Nestorius , a Syrian , bishop of Constantinople , a disciple of the cele- brated Theodore of Mopsuestia , and a man re- markable for his learning and eloquence , which were , however , accompanied with much tevity , and with intolerable ...
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