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LIST OF WORKS.

The following works will be found useful by students who are willing to pursue the subject further.  Some of special interest or importance are marked with an asterisk.

(A.) Original authorities and translations.

The Church Histories of Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and (for the Arian side) the fragments of Philostorgius [translations in Bohn’s _Ecclesiastical Library_].

Eusebius, _Vita Constantini_ and _Contra Marcellum Ancyranum_.

Athanasius, especially _De Incarnatione Verbi Dei_, _De Decretis Synodi Nicaenae_, _Orationes contra Arianos_, _De Synodis_, _Ad Antiochenos_, _Ad Afros_.  Convenient editions of most of these by Professor Bright of Oxford. [Translations of _De Incarnatione_ (Bindley in Christian Classics Series) and of the Orationes and most of the historical works, Newman in Oxford Library of the Fathers.]

Hilary, especially De Synodis.  Cyril’s Catecheses [translation in Oxford Library of the Fathers].  Basil, especially Letters.  Gregory of Nazianzus, especially Orationes iv. and v. (against Julian).  Of minor writers, Phoebadius and Sulpicius Severus (for Council of Ariminum).  Fragments of Marcellus, collected by Rettberg (Goettingen, 1794). [German translations of most of these in Thalhofer’s Bibliothek der Kirchenvaeter.  English may be hoped for in Schaff’s Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (vol. i.  Buffalo, 1886) in 25 vols.]

Heathen writers:—­Zosimus (bitterly prejudiced); Ammianus Marcellinus for 353-378 (cool and impartial); Julian, especially Caesares, Fragmentum Epistolae, and Epp. 7, 25, 26, 42, 43, 49, 52.

(B.) MODERN WRITERS.

1.  For general reference:—­

Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (prejudiced against the Christian Empire, but narrative still unrivalled); Schiller Geschichte der roemischen Kaiserzeit, Bd. ii. (church matters a weak point); Ranke, Weltgeschichte, Bd. iii. iv.

General Church Histories of Neander [translation in Bohn’s Standard
Library]; Kurtz (zehnte Aufl., 1887); Fisher (New York, 1887); also
Hefele, History of the Church Councils [translation published by T. &
T. Clark].

Articles in Dictionary of Christian Biography (especially those by Lightfoot, Reynolds, and Wordsworth), and in Herzog’s Realencyclopaedie (especially Moenchtum by Weingarten).

Weingarten’s Zeittafeln z.  Kirchengeschichte (3 Aufl. 1888).

(2.) For special use:—­

The whole period is more or less covered by Kaye, Some Account of the Nicene Council, 1853; Stanley, _Eastern Church_ (best account of the outside of the council); Broglie, _L’Eglise et l’Empire romain_; Gwatkin, _Studies of Arianism_, 1882.