Carlstadt, 258
Carpocrates, 95
Carthage, church of, 84, 90, 116, 123, 126, 154
Cassiodorus, 232
Caste, in Byzantium, 160
Catechumens, 96, 102 Cathari, 199
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
Cephas, 18. See Peter
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
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.
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
Circumcelliones, 135
Circus, at Constantinople, 159
Civilization, Christianity and, 208. See Decadence
Claudian, 157
Clement of Alexandria, 77, 85, 96
——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
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
——II, 151
Constantine, 113 sq., 127, 151, 214, 215
——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
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
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
Crucifixion, mystic, 27, 32 sq., 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
Cyril, 155
D’Alembert, 282
Dancers, sect of, 226
Daniel, myth of, 38
Dante, 235
David, 38
—— of Dinant, 196
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
Devil, belief in, 187, 224, 225
Diderot, 282
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
Dogma, formation of, 120 sq., 144, 146 sq., 154
Dolcino, Fra, 200
Dominicans, 188, 228, 229, 246
Doomsday, doctrine of, 26, 39, 63, 72, 78, 107, 111, 179
Dositheus, 36
Dostoyevsky, 308
Dove-symbol, 29
——in Jewry, 74
Dreyfus case, 318
Drummond, H., 291
Dukhobortsi, 309
Earthquakes and religion, 161
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
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
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
Erigena. See John the Scot
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