Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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like opposed.Christianity had to battle with them for her life and noone could foresee the result. Yet she grew through allthe century, undismayed by persecution. The effect ofher independent position, opposed as she was by the stateand attacked by the people, began to appear. Her organi-zation became more centralized. Among the elders orbishops of the churches, here and there, a leader appearedwho stood at the head of the Christians of the city andbecame the Bishop; the elders or presbyters becamepriests* under the bishops authority; churches of adistrict united for the settlement of questions common tothem by sending their priests to a synod, presided over bya bishop. Thus a distinction between the clergy and thelay members began to arise. Bishops in such centres asAntioch, Alexandria or Rome, where the Christians weremany, were called Archbishops or Metropolitans. Thechurch at Rome came to have a special position. It was * The word priest is a contracted form of the word presbyter.
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< H CU O The Christian Church 415 thought chat Peter, the leader of Jesuss disciples, was The RomanChurch. its founder and thus gave it leadership over the otherchurches. Its Bishop v^as thus led to make pecuharclaims to headship in the Church. In all this advance ofthe Church we see it begin to shape itself on the model ofthe imperial organization and to stand up over against it.Leaders of thought began to come forward. In Alexan- christiadria, a school of Christian teaching was formed, the mostbrilliant ornament of which was Origen. In NorthAfrica, Christianity was particularly strong. Here thegreat names were Tertullian and Cyprian, who by theirwritings defended the Church against enemies withinand without. A Christian art began to appear. Upon Art.gravestones and chapels the dove, the good shepherdand the lamb, favorite symbols of the new faith, wererudely carved or painted. OUTLINE FOR REVIEWIII. THE EMPIRE OF ROME I, The Making of Rome. 2. Romes Western Empire. 3. RomesEaster

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