Theology on the Web helps over 2.5 million people every year to find high quality theological resources that will help to equip them to serve God and to know Him better (2 Timothy 2:15). Like other websites that provide free services, it is dependent on donations to enable it to grow and develop and only 0.004% of visitors currently do so. If you would like to support this site, please use one of the options to the right of this message.
Book Description
- Title:
- The Christian Church in These Islands Before the Coming of Augustine. Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894, 2nd edn.
- Author:
- George Forrest Browne [1833-1930]
- Publication Year:
- 1895
- Location:
- London
- Publisher:
- SPCK
- Pages:
- 156
- Subjects:
- St Patrick, Medieval Church History, United Kingdom
- Copyright Holder:
- Public Domain
Contents
LECTURE I.
Importance of the anniversaries connected with the years 1894-1897.—Christianity in Kent immediately before Augustine.—Dates of Bishop Luidhard and Queen Bertha.—Romano-British Churches in Canterbury.—Who were the Britons.—Traditional origin of British Christianity.—St. Paul.—Joseph of Arimathea.—Glastonbury.—Roman references to Britain
LECTURE II.
Early mentions of Christianity in Britain.—King Lucius.—Origin and spread of Christianity in Gaul.—British Bishops at Councils.—Pelagianism.—British Bishops of London.—Fastidius
LECTURE III.
Early Christianity in other parts of these islands.—Ninian in the south-west of Scotland.-Palladius and Patrick in lreland.—Columba in Scotland.—Kentigern in Cumbria.—Wales—-Cornwall.—The fate of the several Churches.-Special rites &c. of the British Church.—General conclusion