The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon — In The East

Scope Of Chapter XLVII—Christianity
The Incarnation of Christ I A pure man to the Ebionites, His Birth and Elevation II A pure God to the Docetes, His incorruptible Body III Double Nature of Cerinthus IV Divine Incarnation of Apollinaris V Orthodox Consent and Verbal Disputes
AD Event 412-444 Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria 413,414,etc His Tyranny 428 Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople 429-431 His Heresy 431 First Council of Ephesus, Condemnation of Nestorius, Opposition of the Orientals 431-435 Victory of Cyril 435 Exile of Nestorius 448 Heresy of Eutyches 449 Second Council of Ephesus 451 Council of Chalcedon; Faith of Chalcedon 451-482 Discord of the East 482 The Henoticon of Zeno 508-518 The Trisagion, and religious War, till the Death of Anastasius 514 First religious War 519-565 Theological Character and Government of Justinian —His Persecution Of Heretics, Of Pagans, Of Jews, Of Samaritans— His Orthodoxy 532-698 The Three Chapters 553 Vth General Council: IInd of Constantinople 564 Heresy of Justinian 629 The Monothelite Controversy	AD Event 639 The Ecthesis of Heraclius 648 The Type of Constans 680,681 VIth General Council: IIIrd of Constantinople Union of the Greek and Latin Churches Perpetual Separation of the Oriental Sects I. The Nestorians 500 Sole Masters of Persia 500-1200 Their Missions in Tartary, India, China, &c. 883 The Christians of St. Thomas in India—II. The Jacobites, III. The Maronites, IV. The Armenians, V. The Copts Or Egyptians 537-568 The Patriarch Theodosius 538 Paul 551 Apollinaris 580 Eulogius 609 John; Their Separation and Decay 625-661 Benjamin, the Jacobite Patriarch; Vl. The Abyssinians And Nubians 530 Church of Abyssinia 525-1550 The Portuguese in Abyssinia 1557 Mission of the Jesuits 1626 Conversion of the Emperor 1632 Final Expulsion of the Jesuits

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