[210] Constantine’s letter to the Church of Alexandria, recorded by Socrates, Hist. 1, 9.
INDEX.
- Adam, Father and Head of his race, [3];
- does not lose the Headship by his fall, [11];
- is likewise Priest and Teacher of his race, [14-16];
- created in full possession of language, [5];
- has an infused knowledge of the animal creation, [5];
- has the Image and Likeness of God both as an Individual and as Head of his race, [6];
- subserves the mystery of the Incarnation, [8];
- as does the whole society founded in Adam and his children, [55].
- Æschylus, his rigid statement of satisfaction due for sin, [260].
- Alexandria: its catechetical school, [345];
- becomes a Christian university, [385];
- its succession of ten distinguished presidents, [386].
- Altar, the heathen, on which beasts were sacrificed, βωμὸς, the Christian, on which the Unbloody Sacrifice is offered, θυσιαστήριον, [232].
- Apostolate, the powers conveyed to it by Christ, [136], [138], [139], [149-151];
- summary of these powers, [154], [155], [159];
- (See [Primacy] and [Episcopate]).
- Aquinas, St. Thomas, his doctrine of the subordination of the Temporal to the Spiritual Power, grounded upon the superiority of the end pursued by the latter, [123];
- Miracles a proof that the order of things proceeds from God, not by necessity of nature, but by His free-will, [450];
- the conversion of the world without miracles would have been the most marvellous of all marvels, [452];
- marks that sacrifice must be offered to God alone, [256];
- his statement of the supernatural government tending to a supernatural end, [94-96];
- sums up patristic doctrine on the Eucharist in his hymn, Lauda Sion, [274].
- Athanasius, St., represents the principles on which the ante-nicene Church maintained the faith, [389];
- how he states the authority of Scripture, [370];
- the rule of faith, [392];
- what he thinks of private judgment, [393];
- his tests of heresy, [393];
- on ecclesiastical definitions, [394];
- says Scripture and Tradition are united in the Church’s magisterium, [395];
- how he accounts for the cessation of idolatry, oracles, and magic, [440-443].