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Nicene And Post Nicene Christianity: History Of The Christian Church Volume III

โœ Scribed by Philip Schaff

Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
685
Category
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Eight volume series. The internal conflict between heathenism and Christianity presents the same spectacle of dissolution on the one hand and conscious power on the other. And here the Nicene age reaped the fruit of the earlier apologists, who ably and fearlessly defended the truth of the true religion and refuted the errors of idolatry in the midst of persecution. 108 The literary opposition to Christianity had already virtually exhausted itself, and was now thrown by the great change of circumstances into apology for heathenism; while what was then apology on the Christian side now became triumphant polemics.

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