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Title: A Treatise on Relics

Author: John Calvin

Release Date: April 25, 2010 [Ebook #32136]

Language: English

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A Treatise on Relics

By

John Calvin

Translated from the French Original

With An

Introductory Dissertation

On the Miraculous Images, as Well as Other Superstitions, of the Roman
Catholic and Russo-Greek Churches.

By the Late

Count Valerian Krasinski,

Author of "The Religious History of the Slavonic Nations," etc.

Second Edition.

Edinburgh:

Johnstone, Hunter & Co.

1870

CONTENTS

Preface.
Preface To The Second Edition.
Introductory Dissertation.
Chapter I. Origin Of The Worship Of Relics And Images In The Christian
Church.
Chapter II. Compromise Of The Church With Paganism.
Chapter III. Position Of The First Christian Emperors Towards Paganism,
And Their Policy In This Respect.
Chapter IV. Infection Of The Christian Church By Pagan Ideas And
Practices During The Fourth And Fifth Centuries.
Chapter V. Reaction Against The Worship Of Images And Other
Superstitious Practices By The Iconoclast Emperors Of The East.
Chapter VI. Origin And Development Of The Pious Legends, Or Lives Of
Saints, During The Middle Ages.
Chapter VII. Analysis Of The Pagan Rites And Practices Which Have Been
Retained By The Roman Catholic As Well As The Graeco-Russian Church.
Chapter VIII. Image-Worship And Other Superstitious Practices Of The
Graeco-Russian Church.
Calvin's Treatise On Relics, With Notes By The Translator.
Postscript.
List Of Works Published By Johnstone, Hunter, & Co., Edinburgh.
Footnotes

PREFACE.