Part 9 (1/2)

5 Explain how the Hebrew scribes, ad such a mixed body of laws, naturally caes for the people

6 Illustrate how the Hebrew tradition that the er than armed force has been shown to be true in history

7 What great lessonsa national unity through compulsory education?

8 Why was Jesus' idea as to the importance of the individual destined to make such slow headway in the world? What is the status of the idea to-day (a) in China? (b) in Gerland? (d) in the United States? Is the idea necessarily opposed to nationality or even to a strong state government?

9 Sho the political Church, itself the State, was the natural outcos of the early Christians as to the relationshi+p of Church and State

10 Is it to be wondered that the Roanized defiance of law by the Christians”?

11 Sho the Christian idea of the equality and responsibility of all gave the citizen a new place in the State

12 State the reasons for the gradually increasing lack of sy between the eastern and western Fathers of the Church, and which finally led to the division of the Church

13 Explain what is meant by ”a State within a State” as applied to the Church of the third and fourth centuries Did this prove to be a good thing for the future of civilization? Why?

14 Would Rome probably have been better able to withstand the barbarian invasions if Christianity had not arisen, or not? Why?

15 Sho the Christian attitude toward pagan learning tended to stop schools and destroy the accu

16 What was the effect of the Christian attitude toward the care of the body, on scientific and e, and on education? Was the Christian or the pagan attitude more nearly like that of modern times?

17 Why did the emphasis on form of belief, in the third and fourth centuries, come to supersede the emphasis on personal virtues and simple faith of the first and second centuries?

18 Compare the work of the Sunday School of to-day with the catechumenal instruction of the early Christians

SELECTED READINGS

In the acco selections are reproduced:

27 The Talmud: Educational Maxims from

28 Saint Paul: Epistle to the Romans

29 Saint Paul: To the Athenians

30 The Crimes of the Christians

(a) Minucius Felix: The Roman Point of View

(b) Tertullian: The Christian Point of View

31 Persecution of the Christians as Disloyal Subjects of the Empire

(a) Pliny to Trajan

(b) Trajan to Pliny

32 Tertullian: Effect of the Persecutions

33 Eusebius: Edicts of Diocletian against the Christians

34 Workan Gods

35 Kingsley: The Empire and Christianity in Conflict

36 Lactantius: The Edict of Toleration by Galerius