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TOC: The Rise of Church-State Alliances: Imperial Edicts & Church Councils between 306-565: Emperors Constantine through Justinian:

The Rise of Protestant Alliances of Church and State: Martin Luther and the German Reformation

The Rise of Protestant Alliances of Church and State: Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation

The Constitution and the Commandments

The Classical Temple Architecture of Washington, DC

A History of Religious Tests: 312 to 1961

American Founders on Church-State Alliances

The Bible and the Quran: A Scriptural Comparison

Religion and Women's Suffrage

Religious Tradition and Interracial Marriages

The Slaves of Jefferson and Washington and the 1782 Virginia Law of Manumission

Slavery and the Churches

Gays & Social Conservatism as a Coercive Tool of the State

Einstein's Religion

The Changing Religious Identification of America

Moral Hypocrisy in the Bible Belt

Ring Species, Evolution and why Intelligent Design isn't science.

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Court Holdings on Church and State

Historical Revisionism: On David Barton's Christian Nation

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THE RISE OF CHURCH-STATE ALLIANCES 325-565: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES


PRIMARY SOURCE LIBRARIES ONLINE

he Internet Classics Archive at MIT
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

GTU Library - Church History
http://www.gtu.edu/library/links/history.html

CCEL: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org

LIST: Early Church Fathers
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm

IntraText Digital Library
http://www.intratext.com/

Internet Medieval History Sourcebook at Fordham
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook at Forham
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

The Byzantine Studies Page at Fordham
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/

Internet Jewish History Sourcebook at Forham
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html

DICTIONARIES-ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF RELIGION

Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature with section on Principal Sects and Heresies
http://www.ccel.org/w/wace/biodict/htm/TOC.htm

Philip Schaff's Encyclopedia of Religious knowledge
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc01/htm/iii.htm

PRIMARY SOURCES: HISTORIANS

EUSEBIUS
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-01/TOC.htm

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/eusebius/eusehe.html

MALALAS

http://www.attalus.org/translate/malalas.html
http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/mercsrcs.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/malalas.html

SOZOMEN
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm

"The Ecclesiatical History"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/Npnf2-02-18.htm

SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS

http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm

"The Ecclesiastical History"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/Npnf2-02-05.htm

EVAGRIUS: -594

Ecclesiastical History 431-594 (trans E. Walford 1846)
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/evagrius_0_intro.htm

Ecclesiastical History http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/evagrius_0_toc.htm

MINUCIUS FELIX

http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm

PROCOPIUS OF CEASARIA (500-575)

"The Secret History"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html
Procopius of Caesarea (TOC 4 works)
http://procopius.net/contents.html

SULPITIUS SERVERUS

"Life of Saint Martin"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-05.htm

"The Virtues of Martin"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-13.htm

"The Sacred History"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-22.htm

THE VENERABLE BEDE

"Ecclesiastical History of England"
http://www.forham.edu/halsail/basis/bede-book1.html

"Conversion of England"
http://www.forham.edu/halsail/source/bede1.html

"GREGORY THE GREAT"

http://www.ccel.org/p/pearse/morefathers/gregory_00_dialogues_intro.htm
http://www.osb.org/gen/greg/tocalt.html
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/gregory_01_dialogues_book1.htm
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/gregory_02_dialogues_book2.htm

JOHN OF EPHESUS

Ecclesiastical History, Part 3 http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/ephesus_0_toc.htm

SCHAFF:
Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.toc.html

PAGAN HISTORIANS:

ZOSIMUS - Historian

"The New History" Books 1-6 @
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/index.htm

CELSUS - Philosopher

Origen's Against Celsus
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm

Excerpts: Celsus' view of Christians and Christianity
http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/celsus.htm


BOOKS OF INTEREST

A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, Pierre Chuvin

Pagans and Chistians, Robin Lane Fox

Paganism in the Roman Empire, Ramsay MacMullen

Christianizing the Roman Empire, Ramsay MacMullen

Chrstianity and Pagansim in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen

Paganism and Christianity 100-425 CE; A Sourcebook, Ramsay MacMullen & Eugene Lane (primary sources)

A World Lit by Fire, William Manchester

Theodosius: The Empire at Bay, Stephen Williams & Gerard Friell

The Christians As The Romans Saw Them, Robert L. Wilken

The Later Roman Empire, J. B. Bury

A World Full of Gods, Keith Hopkins

When Jesus Became God, Richard Rubenstein

The Barbarian Conversion, Richard Fletcher

The Seekers, Daniel Boorstin

The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas

The History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren

Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris

Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond

PRIMARY SOURCES: EARLY FATHERS

AMBROSE

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. X
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-10/TOC.htm

ARNOBIUS

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-06/TOC.htm

Seven Books against the Heathen - TOC http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG1008/_INDEX.HTM

ATHANASIUS

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IV
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/TOC.htm

ATHANIUS


ATHENOGORAS

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm

AUGUSTINE

LIST @ Early Church Fathers
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

BASIL (of the 3 Cappadocians)

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VIII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-08/TOC.htm

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm

CHRYSOSTOM OF ALEXANDRIA

LIST @ Early Church Fathers
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

COMMODIANUS/COMMODIAN

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA


CYRIL OF JERUSALEM

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/TOC.htm

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-02.htm

CYPRIAN

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/TOC.htm

DIDYMUS THE BLIND


DIONYSIUS

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/TOC.htm

EPIPHANIUS OF SALAMIS

Panarion/Adversus Haereses (Excerpts)
http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/epiphanius.html

EUSEBIUS OF CEASARIUS


FIRMICIUS MATERNUS


FULGENTIUS OF RUSPE


GREGORY OF NYSSA (of the 3 Cappadocians)

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. V
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-05/TOC.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2901.htm

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS (of the 3 Cappadocians)

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/TOC.htm

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-02.htm

GREGORY THE GREAT (Pope)

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-12/TOC.htm

Epistles: Medieval Sourcebook texts
http://forham.edu/halsail/source/greg1a.html

HILARY OF POITIERS

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IX
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-09/TOC.htm

HERMIAS


HYPOLYTUS


IRAENEUS

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm

Proof of Apostolic teaching
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/irenaeus_00_proof_eintro.htm

Adversus Haereses
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm

ISADORE OF SEVILLE


JEROME

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. VI
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-06/TOC.htm

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.toc.html

JUSTIN MARTYR

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/TOC.htm

JOHN OF DAMASCUS

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IX
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-09/TOC.htm

LACTANTIUS

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/TOC.htm

LEO THE GREAT I (Pope)

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XII
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-12/TOC.htm

LEONTUS OF BYZANTINE


MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR


NILUS


OPTATIUS OF MILEVE


ORIGEN

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm

OROSIUS


PRUDENTIUS


PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE


TATIAN

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm

TERTULLIAN

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/TOC.htm

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-04/TOC.htm

THEODORET

Early Church Fathers
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

THEOPHILUS OF ANTIOCH

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/TOC.htm

SECONDARY HISTORY SOURCES

JOHN BURNET:

Early Greek Philosophy (1920):
http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/

EDWARD GIBBON:

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (17----) http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/home.html

JACOB BURCKHARDT:

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html

PHILIP SCHAFF:

History of the Christian Church (1882)
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/About.htm

SCHAFF INDEX
http://www.ccel.org/search/keyword_search.pl?a=search&keywords=Schaff

BERNARD LAZARE:
Antisemitism, Its History and Causes (1894)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/lazare-anti.html
SANFORD H. COBB:

The Rise of Religious Liberty in America.(1902) http://www.dinsdoc.com/cobb-1-0a.htm

PHILIP HUGHS:

A History Of The Church (1934)

http://www.netacc.net/~mafg/book/v1toc.htm

http://www.netacc.net/~mafg/book/v2toc.htm

A History of the General Councils 325-1870 http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/coun1.html

SANDERSON BECK:
http://www.san.beck.org

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INTERNET HISTORY SITES
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Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/ancient.html

Lectures on Early Modern European History http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/earlymod.html

Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/intellect.html

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/

Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis http://www.roman-emperors.org

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html

Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html

The Library of Iberian Resources:
Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain http://libro.uca.edu/mckenna/

World Cultures and World History
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/WORLD.HTM

Frank Smitha's World History
http://www.fsmitha.com

The Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org

The Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.JewishEncyclopedia.com

The Roman Empire
http://www.roman-empire.net/index.html

Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis http://www.roman-emperors.org

LacusCurtius A Gateway to Ancient Rome
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html


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