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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: Church history Orthodox Eastern Church Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURES THE EASTERN CHURCH. LECTURE I. THE EASTERN CHURCH. The Eastern Church occupies a vast field of Ecclesiastical History. But it is a field rather of space than of time. It is marked out rather by tracts of land and races of men than by successive epochs in the progress of events, of ideas, or of characters. Hence has arisen the frequent remark that, properly speaking, the Eastern Church has no history. The nations which it embraces have been, for the most part, so stationary, and their life so monotonous, that they furnish few subjects of continuous narration. The influence which it has exercised on the onward course of religious opinion has been so slight, that by tacit consent it has almost dropped out of the notice of ecclesiastical historians. The languages in which its records and its literature are composed are such as to repel even the learned classes of the West; even the Greek dialect of the East after the sixth century becomes almost intolerable to the eye and the ear of the classical student . Its system has produced hardly any permanent works of practical Christian benevolence. With very few exceptions, its celebrated names are invested with no stirring associations. It seems to open a fijld of interest to travellers and antiquarians, not to philosophers or historians. Is there anything in such a subject to repay the labour or even the attention of a theological student? Had we not better pass on at once to more fertile and more genial regions? Can any Englishman, can any Protestant, nay, c...

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