The Churches in Britain Before A D. 1000

ISBN: 9781330210970 出版年：2016 页码：223 Alfred Plummer Forgotten Books

UR knowledge of the history of Christianity in the British Isles during the first centuries of its existence is very meagre. We know some thing oi it before the year a.d. 400; and we know a great deal of it after a.d. 600. But about its origin we know nothing, and about the two cen turies which followed the departure of the Roman legions in 409 we know very little. Let us look at the twilight which precedes their departure before attempting to penetrate the darkness which followed it.