The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The East
Scope Of Chapter XLVII.
The Incarnation of Christ
IA pure man to the Ebionites, His Birth and Elevation
II A pure God to the Docetes, His incorruptible Body
III Double Nature of Cerinthus
IV Divine Incarnation of Apollinaris
V Orthodox Consent and Verbal Disputes
AD Event.
412-444 Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria
413,414,etc His Tyranny
428 Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople
429-431 His Heresy
431 First Council of Ephesus, Condemnation of Nestorius, Opposition of the Orientals
431-435 Victory of Cyril
435 Exile of Nestorius
448 Heresy of Eutyches
449 Second Council of Ephesus
451Council of Chalcedon
Faith of Chalcedon
451-482 Discord of the East
482 The Henoticon of Zeno
508-518 The Trisagion, and religious War, till the Death of Anastasius
514 First religious War
519-565Theological Character and Government of Justinian,
—His Persecution Of Heretics, Of Pagans, Of Jews, Of Samaritans
His Orthodoxy
532-698 The Three Chapters
553Vth General Council: IId of Constantinople
564 Heresy of Justinian
629The Monothelite Controversy
639 The Ecthesis of Heraclius
648 The Type of Constans
680, 681 VIth General Council: IIId of Constantinople
Union of the Greek and Latin Churches
Perpetual Separation of the Oriental Sects
I. THE NESTORIANS
500 Sole Masters of Persia
500-1200 Their Missions in Tartary, India, China, &c.
883 The Christians of St. Thomas in India
II. THE JACOBITES
III. THE MARONITES
IV. THE ARMENIANS
V. THE COPTS OR EGYPTIANS
537-568 The Patriarch Theodosius
538 Paul
551Apollinaris
580Eulogius
609 John
Their Separation and Decay
625-661 Benjamin, the Jacobite Patriarch
Vl. THE ABYSSINIANS AND NUBIANS
530 Church of Abyssinia
525-1550 The Portuguese in Abyssinia
1557 Mission of the Jesuits
1626Conversion of the Emperor
1632Final Expulsion of the Jesuits
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