Index.
Academies, the five, of
Plato's school, 480.
Alexander Severus, his
treatment of Christians, 244.
Antoninus Pius, extension of
the Church in his reign, 197;
treatment of it under him, 227-233;
what aspect the Church bore to him, 233-7.
Apostolic age, result of,
186-7.
Aristotle, his character as a
philosopher, 429;
his view of the soul, 430;
relation of his philosophy to religion, 433;
conception of the method of teaching, 420;
what he says of Socrates, 390;
his account of the generation of the Platonic doctrine of Ideas,
400.
Athenagoras, 182.
Athens, worship at, 5.
Augustine, S., his contrast of
Heathenism with Christianity, 172-5;
how the Second Divine Person is the Truth, 51;
the Church Christ's Body, 99;
and at once his Temple, House, and City, 88;
also the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon men, 97;
dowered with Christ's Blood, 144;
believing Christ, without believing the Church, is decapitating
Christ, 105;
crime of denying that the Catholic Church will for ever continue
in its unity, 106;
the Word made flesh that He might become the Head of the Church,
107;
asserts the perpetual Principatus of the Roman See from the
beginning, 290;
describes the uses of heresy, 281-2;
coherence of the natural and mystical Body of Christ in the
Eucharist, 103;
what the Church will be hereafter, 112.
Aulus Gellius, 421.
its full reversal as seen in the Body of Christ, 112.
Carneades, 447.
Catholic, term used of the
Church by S. Ignatius about a.d. 115, and by the
Church of Polycarp fifty years later, 206.
Christ, declares Himself to be
a king, 49;
His kingdom that of Truth, 50-4;
the counterpart of Adam as an individual, 76;
as Head of a race, 77;
as making one Body with His people, 79;
parallel in His natural and mystical Body, 96;
analogies between them, 97;
coherence of both in the Eucharist, 103;
His action permanent in His kingdom, 81;
in His House, 86;
in His Body, 88;
in His Bride, 91;
in the Mother of His race, 92;
His five distinct loves, 93;
His Body imperishable, 104;
crime of imputing falsehood to it, 105;
force of its corporate unity, 110;
gifts which He bestows on it, 125;
connection of Truth with His Person the principle of persecution,
182;
His Passion repeated in His people, 185;
His work summed up by S. Augustine, 172-5.
Church, the, the Kingdom of
Truth, 81;
the House of Christ, 86;
the Body of Christ, 88;
the Bride of Christ, 91;
the Mother of His race, 92;
the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon men, 97;
is imperishable and incorruptible, 105;
possesses Unity, Truth, Charity, and Sanctity as coinherent gifts
of the Spirit, 125-8;
bestows forgiveness of sins, faith, adoption, and sanctification
on the individual, 128-31;
unity of its jurisdiction, 146;
analogy between it and the relation of soul and body, 133;
between it and the human commonwealth, 134;
between it and the natural unity of man's race, 135;
by a triple succession, 156-161;
development of the Truth its proper work, 168;
its divine life as opposed to heathenism, 171;
its witness of Christ's confession in the first ten generations,
184;
its first persecution by Nero, 191;
growth in the time of Antoninus Pius, 195;
picture of it by S. Ignatius, 199;
of Hadrian, 221;
of Antoninus Pius, 226;
of Marcus Aurelius, 292;
of Commodus, 302;
of Septimius Severus, 302;
its position in the third century, 308;
its organic unity as set forth by S. Cyprian, 325-334;
power of its idea on Christians, 340;
expresses Christ in its moral character, its worship, and its
government, 341-5;
persecuted by Decius, 356;
by Valerian and Aurelian, 361;
by Diocletian, 362;
obtains freedom from Constantine, 371;
how affected by Roman law between a.d. 64 and 313,
371-3.
Church, a mother or cathedral
church only so called, 253.
Churches, public, when first
known to exist at Rome, 308.
Cicero, states the work of
Socrates, 391;
sources of his philosophical works, 451;
what he says of the atomic theory, 464;
his book de
Officiis the standard of heathen morality for
centuries after him, 468;
his statement of the Stoic idea of the world as one republic of
gods and men, 471;
his partition of the cardinal virtues, 473;
virtue not a gift of God, but the work of man, 474.
Cleanthes, his hymn quoted,
461.
Cyprian, S., his statement of
the Church's organic unity founded on the Primacy given to Peter,
326-331;
repudiates a parallel between the twelve tribes of Israel and the
Church, on the question of unity, 334;
agreement of his witness with that of S. Paul, S. Ignatius, and
S. Irenæus, 349;
his conversion, described by himself, a type of heathen
conversion in general, 336-8;
describes the relaxation produced by the long peace of the Church
before the Decian persecution, 350-2;
his martyrdom, 358;
says the Emperor Decius would much rather endure the appointment
of a rival emperor than of a Bishop of Rome, 356.