Holy places : their sanctity and authenticity

Holy places : their sanctity and authenticity

Author: Philpin de Rivieres, F. (Felix M.)

Year: 1874

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface. v Introductory Chapter — 1. General Connection between the Questions of Sanctity and Authenticity 1 2. The Opportuneness of the Question from its Double Point of View 2 PART I. LOCAL SANCTIFICATION AND ITS PERMANENCE. I. Existence of Holy Places 20 1. Sense of Mankind on this Point 20 2. Mysterious Absence of God in Nature 21 3. Mysterious Return 24 II. Fitness of Certain Places for Sanctification 26 III. The Essential Source of Sanctification 20 IV. Channels of Sanctification 31 1. Angels and Saints 31 2. The Grave 34 3. The Church and the Priesthood 36 V. Authority and Liberty 30 VI. Ideal Development of Sanctification 43 1. Exorcism. Religious Labour 43 2. Transient Consecrations 44 3. Permanent Reservations 46 4. The Monument 60 5. The House of God 61 6. The Metropolitan Church 52 7. The Holy City, the Religious Capital 53 VII. Is the Development of Holy Places a Thing to be Feared? 55 VIII. Historical Sketch of the Holy Places before Jesus Christ 63 1. From the Patriarchs to the Schism of Israel 63 2. After the Schism, Decline, Fall, or Slavery 73 3. Mysterious Reaction 76 IX. The Holy Places in the Time of Christ 81 1. Two Objections 81 2. Did the