Carlstadt, 258

Carpocrates, 95

Carthage, church of, 84, 90, 116, 123, 126, 154

Cassiodorus, 232

Caste, in Byzantium, 160

Catechumens, 96, 102 Cathari, 199

Cathedrals, 166, 167

Catholicism, latter-day, 265–66, 268, 274, 283, 285, 292 sq., 311, 318

Cave-birth-myth, 37

Celibacy, doctrine of, 63, 89–90, 122, 155, 166, 180, 206, 209

Celsus, 11, 85

Cephas, 18. See Peter

Cerdo, 93, 98

Ceres, 22, 55. See Dêmêtêr

Cetewayo, 173

Chalcedon, Council of, 149, 175

“Chapters,” powers of, 179, 181

Charlemagne, 127, 169 sq., 176, 177, 232

Charles Martel, 176

——the Bald, 194

——the Fat, 177

——V, 251, 252, 255, 256

Charron, 283

Chartreuse, monks of, 208

Chateaubriand, 288

Chaucer, 204

Chazari, 199

Chemistry, rise of, 233

Child-eating, charge of, 25–26

Child-God, the, 28, 37, 55, 57

Children’s crusades, 221

China, ethics in, 61; life of, 160; Christianity in, 292 sq. Chorepiscopi, 134, 166 Chrēstos, the name, 31, 33–35

Christ, the name, 92; the myth, 28 sq., 34, 36 sq., 78, 96; the doctrine, 39, 78, 91, 98, 102, 120, 148 sq., 152, 266

Christian III of Denmark, 253

——IV of Denmark, 261

——of Anhalt, 260

Christians, the first, 2–10, 22, 28 sq., 48, 63, 67 sq., 72 sq., 81 sq.

Christmas, 37, 55

Chrysostom, 155, 161

Church, origin of Christian, 45, 48, 75 sq., 81 sq.; State establishment of, 114 sq., 133 sq.; early endowments of, 70, 116, 117, 135, 169; organization of, 166, 170, 172, 174 sq.; expansion of, 165 sq.; slave-holding by, 216

Churches, early use of, 101

Cicero, 286, 291

Circumcelliones, 135

Circumcision, 23, 26, 49

Circus, at Constantinople, 159

Civilization, Christianity and, 208. See Decadence

Claudian, 157

Claudius, Bishop, 187, 194

Clement of Alexandria, 77, 85, 96

——of Rome, 54, 73, 74

——III (antipope), 180

——VII (Pope), 251, 252 Clementines, the, 29

Clergy, early Christian, 83, 85, 116 sq., 119, 126, 166 sq.; celibacy of, 89–90, 180, 204, 205 sq.; secular and regular, 167; ignorance of, 205 sq.; influence of, 205, 209; misconduct of, 205 sq.; modern Greek, 304 sq.; Russian, 308

Clifford, 299

Clovis, 144

Cœlestius, 147

Colenso, 289, 291

Coleridge, 103, 284

Collins, Anthony, 287

Collyridians, 146

Columbus, 277

Communism, Christian, 27, 167, 212

Comte, 295

Concord, ideal of, 63 sq.

Concubinage, priestly, 90, 205–206

Condorcet, 282

Confession, sacerdotal, 71, 166, 191, 209

Constance, Council of, 246

Constans, 121, 124, 125

——II, 151

Constantine, 113 sq., 127, 151, 214, 215

——II, 124, 151

——VI, 176

——Copronymus, 198

——the Paulician, 198

Constantinople, ancient church of, 116, 118, 126, 175; Council of, 149; life of, 159, 238 sq.; patriarch of, 120, 174, 175; fall of, 220, 235, 243

Constantius, 115, 124–26, 128

——Chlorus, 112–14, 128

Conversion of barbarians, 168 sq.

Copernicus, 265, 277, 278 Corinthians, Epistles to, 4, 16, 20, 32, 49, 68

Corybantic mysteries, 56

Cosmas Indicopleustes, 158

Cossacks, creed of, 263

Councils, church, 70, 90, 91, 104, 118, 120–21, 126, 182

Counsellor Gods, the Babylonian, 16

Cow, the sacred, 37

Creeds, use of, 75, 101, 151

Crete, Moslem conquest of, 244; reconquest of, 244

Crime, Christianity and, 312

Crimean War, 309

Crispus, 117

Cromwell, 287

Cross-symbol, 27–28, 32, 35, 57, 58, 79, 101–102

Crucifix, the, 27, 185

Crucifixion, mystic, 27, 32 sq., 57

——mythic, 15, 57

Cruelty, Christian and pagan, 64, 108, 154, 155, 156, 161, 171, 172, 173, 181–82, 198, 209, 210, 218, 219, 231, 239, 256, 311

Crusades, 182, 193, 199, 200, 218 sq., 311

Culture-conditions, Græco-Roman, 41 sq.; medieval, 197 sq., 205 sq., 225, 235

Cumberland, 283

Cybelê, 52, 53, 76

Cyprian, 86, 90, 91, 109, 174

Cyril, 155

D’Alembert, 282

Damasus, Pope, 134–35, 174

Dancers, sect of, 226

Daniel, myth of, 38

Dante, 235

Darwinism, 282, 299

David, 38

—— of Dinant, 196

Deacons, 70, 83

Death-rate, medieval, 225

Decadence, ancient, promoted by Christianity, 85, 86, 110, 119, 126, 128, 134, 136–37, 140, 142, 146, 150, 152, 154, 159, 160 sq., 173, 208; medieval, 228, 238; modern, 262

Decius, 108

Decretals, the forged, 178, 179, 180–82

Deism, 195, 275, 277, 282, 286 sq., 301

Delambre, 282

Dêmêtêr, 7, 55, 56, 76 Demiourgos, the, 98

Democracy, fanatical, 276, 277

Denmark, conversion of, 170

Deogratius, 154

Descartes, 280, 281, 283

Devil, belief in, 187, 224, 225

D’Holbach, 282 Diabolos, 19

Diderot, 282

Diocletian, 108, 111–14

Dionysius the Areopagite, 241

Dionysos, cult of, 14, 15, 21, 22, 26, 32, 37, 38, 44, 51, 55 sq., 102, 106, 138

Disciples. See Apostles

Divination, 117, 134

Docetists, 123, 198

Dogma, formation of, 120 sq., 144, 146 sq., 154

Dolcino, Fra, 200

Dominicans, 188, 228, 229, 246

Domitian, 108, 109

Donatists, 118, 123, 134, 143

Doomsday, doctrine of, 26, 39, 63, 72, 78, 107, 111, 179

Dositheus, 36

Dostoyevsky, 308

Dove-symbol, 29

Drama, Greek, 13, 33, 42

——in Jewry, 74

Dreyfus case, 318

Druids, 25, 183

Drummond, H., 291

Dukhobortsi, 309

Dunbar, 274 Dynamis, 94

Earthquakes and religion, 161

Easter, 24 sq., 59, 90

Ebionites, 5–9, 29 Ecclesia, the, 45

Ecclesiasticus, Book of, 22

Eckhart, 212

Economic causation, 28, 47, 69 sq., 78, 80, 86, 88, 117, 126, 132, 134, 135, 139, 140, 168, 189, 197, 216, 217, 220, 222, 249 sq., 265, 271, 296

Education, pagan and Christian, 158, 183; in fifteenth century, 248; Jesuit methods of, 276; modern Catholic, 296

Egypt, ancient cults of, 18, 27, 62, 69, 77, 79, 92, 94, 152 (see Isis and Osiris); Christianity in, 81, 108, 138, 150, 161, 165; art in, 237; Gnosticism in, 93 sq.; Moslem conquest of, 150 Ektroma, 4

El, 21, 22, 29, 38

Elcesaites, 36, 91

Elders. See Presbyters

Eleusinian mysteries, 26, 45, 55, 134, 143

Elijah and Elisha, 38

Elizabeth of England, 253, 273

Elvira, Council of, 186

Elymas, 29

Emerson, 301

Emperors, worship of, 60, 109

Encyclopædia Biblica, 289

End of world, doctrine of. See Doomsday

England, Christianity in, 168; heresy in medieval, 203, 229; slave-trading in, 216; Protestantism in, 252 sq., 264 sq., 268, 273, 295; Catholicism in, 295; rationalism in, 281, 282, 283 sq., 286 sq., 299 sq. Ennoia, 94

Ephesus, Council of, 148, 149

Epictetus, 85, 86, 130, 211

Epicureanism, 45, 128, 280

Epiphanius, 186, 187

Erasmus, 248, 271

Erigena. See John the Scot

Essenes, 8, 49–51

Establishment, Church, 112, 114 sq., 127 Eternal Gospel, The, 203

Ethics, Christian and pagan, 41 sq., 60 sq., 68, 71, 84, 89, 155, 156, 193, 204, 218 sq., 228, 239, 257, 284, 310 sq.

Eucharist, 2, 12, 20–26, 36, 44, 101, 102, 190; doctrine of, 189 sq., 194, 225, 266