3. Literature. (Chapter 1: Spread of Christianity.) (History of the Christian Church) (Schaff, Philip)

I. Sources.

No statistics or accurate statements, but only scattered hints in Pliny (107): Ep. x. 96 sq. (the letter to Trajan). Ignatius (about 110): Ad Magnes. c. 10. Ep. ad Diogn. (about 120) c. 6. Justin Martyr (about 140): Dial. 117; Apol. I. 53. Irenaeus (about 170): Adv. Haer. I. 10; III. 3, 4; v. 20, etc. Tertullian (about 200): Apol. I. 21, 37, 41, 42; Ad Nat. I. 7; Ad Scap. c. 2, 5; Adv. Jud. 7, 12, 13. Origen (d. 254): Contr. Cels. I, 7, 27; II. 13, 46; III. 10, 30; De Princ. l. IV. c. 1, 2; Com. in Matth. p. 857, ed. Delarue. Eusebius (d. 340): Hist. Eccl III. 1; v. 1; vii, 1; viii. 1, also books ix. and x. RUFINUS: Hist. Eccles. ix. 6. Augustine (d. 430): De Civitate Dei. Eng. translation by M. Dods, Edinburgh, 1871; new ed. (in Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Library ), N. York, 1887.

II. Works.

Mich. Le Quien (a learned Dominican, d. 1733): Oriens Christianus. Par. 1740. 3 vols. fol. A complete ecclesiastical geography of the East, divided into the four patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

Mosheim: Historical Commentaries, etc. (ed. Murdock) I. 259-290.

Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chap. xv.

A. Beugnot: Histoire de la destruction du paganisme en Occident. Paris 1835, 2 vols. Crowned by the Academie des inscriptions et belles-letters.

Etienne Chastel: Histoire de la destruction du paganisme dans I' empire d' Orient. Paris 1850. Prize essay of the Academie.

Neander: History of the Christian Relig. and Church (trans. of Torrey), I. 68-79

Wiltsch: Handbuch der kirchl. Geographie u. Statistik. Berlin 1846. I. p. 32 sqq.

Chs. Merivale: Conversion of the Roman Empire (Boyle Lectures for 1864), republ. N. York 1865. Comp. also his History of the Romans under the Empire, which goes from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius, Lond. & N. York, 7 vols.

Edward A. Freeman: The Historical Geography of Europe. Lond. & N. York 1881. 2 vols. (vol. I. chs. II. & III. pp. 18-71.)

Comp. Friedlaender, Sittengesch. Roms. III. 517 sqq.; and Renan: Marc-Aurele. Paris 1882, ch. xxv. pp. 447-464 (Statistique et extension geographique du Christianisme).

V. Schultze: Geschichte des Untergangs des griech-roemischen. Heidenthums. Jena, 1887.