Historical Tracts of St. Athanasius
translated by Miles Atkinson, 
with Preface and notes by John Henry Newman

Contents 
Editor's Note
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Contents

This table of contents is an expanded version of the one in the book—NR.

Page
Preface
1.  Encyclical Epistle, addressed to all Bishops every where,
A.D. 341. (Ep. Encycl.)
     1.
2.  Apology against the Arians, written about A.D. 350.
(Apol. contr. Arian.)
Introduction    13.
Chapter 1. Encyclical Letter of Council of Egypt    17.
Chapter 2. Letter of Pope Julius to Eusebians at Antioch    39.
Chapter 3. Letter of Council of Sardica    59.
Chapter 4. Imperial and Ecclesiastical Acts due to Sardica    79.
Chapter 5. Documents connected with Charges of Meletians     88.
Chapter 6. Documents connected with Council of Tyre  101.
3.  Encyclical Epistle, addressed to the Bishops of Egypt
and Libya, A.D. 356. (ad Ep. Ęg.)
Chapter 1.  125.
Chapter 2.  139.
4.  Apology addressed to the Emperor Constantius, A.D. 356.
(ad Constant. or Ap. ad Const.)
 154.
5.  Apology for his flight, A.D. 357 or 358. (de Fug.)  188.
6.  Epistle to Serapion concerning the death of Arius,
A.D. 358-360. (ad Serap. de Mart. Ar.)
 210.
7.  Epistle to the Monks, A.D. 358, or later. (Ep. ad Mon.)  215.
8.  History of the Arians, written A.D. 358-360.
(ad Mon. or Hist. Arian.)
 
Chapter 1. Arian persecution under Constantine  219.
Chapter 2. First Arian persecution under Constantius  226.
Chapter 3. Restoration of Catholics on Council of Sardica  230.
Chapter 4. Second Arian persecution under Constantius  241.
Chapter 5. Persecution and lapse of Liberius  248.
Chapter 6. Persecution and lapse of Hosius  255.
Chapter 7. Persecution at Alexandria  262.
Chapter 8. Persecution in Egypt  276.
Appendix:  S. Alexander's Deposition of Arius, and Encyclical
Epistle
, A.D. 321. (Alex. Encycl. Ep.)
 297.

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Editor's Note

This book was printed with both footnotes and margin notes. The footnotes
are indicated here by letters (as in the original) and converted to endnotes.
Margin notes are indicated by numbers (assigned consecutively through the
file, unlike the original) and appear here as another set of endnotes.—NR.

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Title Page

HISTORICAL TRACTS

OF

S. ATHANASIUS,

ARCHBISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA,

 

TRANSLATED, 

WITH NOTES AND INDICES.

 

 

OXFORD,
JOHN HENRY PARKER;
J. G. F. AND J. RIVINGTON, LONDON.
MDCCCXLIII.

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