Origin Development of the Christian Church in Gaul

Excerpt from The Origin Development of the Christian Church in Gaul: During the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era; Being the Birkbeck Lectures for 1907 and 1908 in Trinity College, Cambridge The present work is the result of the author's study of the origin and settlement of the Church in England, and of his desire to come to some reliable conclusions as to the condition of the Church in Britain before the English invasion. For everything, in the civilised world of the Roman Empire, Gaul was the threshold of Britain, and it is impossible to come to any conclusions as to what may, or may not, have been in this island until we know all we can know of what really had occurred, and was, in Gaul. When, therefore, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College in 1906 appointed the author Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History the subject he chose for his courses of lectures was that of the origin of the Church in Gaul, and the acceptance of this subject by the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge as the theses for the B.D. and D.D. degrees gave him a yet further stimulus in pursuit of a strictly historical inquiry as to the early settlement of the Church in the great province of Gaul. In one sense the work has some claim to originality. The subject has never been taken up on such serious lines of historical criticism by any English writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.