HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH*

 

 

CHAPTER XI:

 

THE HERESIES OF THE ANTE-NICENE AGE.

 

 § 112. Judaism and Heathenism within the Church.

 

Having described in previous chapters the moral and intellectual victory of the church over avowed and consistent Judaism and heathenism, we must now look at her deep and mighty struggle with those enemies in a hidden and more dangerous form: with Judaism and heathenism concealed in the garb of Christianity and threatening to Judaize and paganize the church. The patristic theology and literature can never be thoroughly understood withou