OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND CHURCH TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF DR. AUGUSTUS) NEANDER, BY JOSEPH TORREY, PROFESSOR OF MORAL, PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED. "I am come to send fire on the earth."-Words of our Lord. "And the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." "But other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Christ Jesus."-St. Paul. VOLUME EIGHTH. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1852. 06-27-39 JA gt wenley hit 6.24-39 ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Volume concludes the HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH as published by Neander. Since his death a posthumous volume has appeared, compiled from his papers by his pupil Dr. Schneider, and there is some probability of a further continuation. When this is determined we shall translate the remainder, and give a General Index to the whole. CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. FIFTH PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRIS- FROM GREGORY THE SEVENTH TO BONIFACE THE Newly awakened religious and scientific life in the eleventh century. Distinction of a more intellectual and a more religious interest. Question concerning the objective, or barely subjective import of general conceptions Roscelin of Compiegne, near the close of the eleventh century, against the hitherto prevailing realism of Augustin, which had grown out of the combination of Plato's Universalia ante rem with Aristotle's Universalia in re. His explana- tion of general conception as nomina, non res. Analysis of the conceptions part and whole Isolation of scientific efforts previous to the founding of the |