Introduction to the History of Christianity,9780800634964

Introduction to the History of Christianity

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ISBN13: 9780800634964
ISBN10: 0800634969
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Summary

One-volume illustrated reference book on the history of Christianity is now available in a paperback edition. Written by more than sixty specialist from ten countries that tells the story of Christianity's 2000-year history.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1 GOD AND HISTORY
Time-chart: The Christian centuries
12(2)
God, Time and History
14(43)
Josephus
18(1)
Bede
19(3)
Eusebius
22(2)
John Foxe
24(1)
Kenneth Latourette
25(1)
Time and progress
26(3)
Worship and the Christian year
29(5)
The church year
32(2)
Weighing up the evidence
34(3)
Christianity and the arts
37(7)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
41(1)
Leo Tolstoy
42(2)
Buildings and beliefs
44(4)
The rise of modern science
48(3)
Christians and war
51(5)
SECTION 2 BEGINNINGS 1-325
Time-chart: Beginnings
56(1)
The Church Expands: Jerusalem to Rome
57(25)
Map: The Roman world
59(1)
Peter
60(2)
Paul
62(4)
Maps: Christianity expands
66(1)
`Those Christians'
67(2)
Archaeological light on earliest Christianity
69(9)
Roman religion
71(2)
A puzzle
73(1)
The religion of the Romans
74(4)
Spreading the good news
78(4)
The Challenge to Faith
82(19)
Ignatius of Antioch
83(2)
Nero's spectacular massacre
85(2)
The Montanists
87(2)
Novatianists
89(2)
Perpetua
91(2)
Cyprian and North Africa
93(1)
Justin Martyr
94(2)
The Gnostics
96(5)
Manichaens
98(2)
Irenaeus
100(1)
What the First Christians Believed
101(38)
Marcion
104(3)
Origen
107(5)
Tertullian
112(11)
How the first Christians worshipped
123(7)
The Passover
124(2)
Clement of Rome
126(2)
A service in second-century Rome
128(1)
Instructions for worship and leadership
129(1)
How the New Testament has come down to us
130(8)
Rescuing a manuscript
131(2)
Can the text be trusted?
133(1)
Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament
134(4)
SECTION 3 ACCEPTANCE AND CONQUEST 325-600
Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest
138(1)
Constantine and the Christian Empire
139(25)
Athanasius
145(3)
A hymn of Ambrose
148(1)
Ambrose of Milan
149(3)
Worship and the Christian year
152(2)
The Apostles' Creed
153(1)
Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places
154(4)
Building for worship
158(6)
Maps: Acceptance and conquest
162(2)
Councils and Creeds
164(23)
Basil the Great
175(2)
The Nicene Creed
177(3)
Nestorius
180(2)
Cyril of Alexandria
182(2)
Leo the Great
184(3)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
187(25)
Ulfilas' Gothic Bible
188(7)
Clergy, bishops and pope
195(9)
Jerome
196(3)
John Chrysostom
199(3)
Columba
202(2)
The church in North Africa
204(8)
Augustine of Hippo
206(2)
Augustine describes his conversion
208(2)
The Donatists in North Africa
210(2)
Christian Ascetics and Monks
212(16)
Patrick
219(1)
Life in Benedict's monastery
220(3)
Cassiodorus
223(3)
SECTION 4 A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY 600-1500
Time-chart: A Christian society
226(2)
The West in Crisis
228(19)
Boethius
229(1)
Gregory the Great
230(11)
Alcuin
241(3)
Map: The West under threat: eighth to tenth centuries
244(3)
The Eastern Church
247(13)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
252(2)
The Paulicians and the Bogomils
254(6)
Flowering: The Western Church
260(70)
Pope Innocent III
263(1)
`The moon and the sun'
264(1)
The sacraments are developed
265(3)
Bernard of Clairvaux
268(1)
A Cistercian hymn
269(3)
Francis of Assisi
272(2)
The rule of Francis
274(4)
The Crusades
278(5)
God's non-existence inconceivable
283(1)
Anselm
284(2)
Scholasticism
286(2)
Peter Abelard
288(2)
Thomas Becket
290(2)
Thomas Aquinas
292(3)
Cathedrals and their builders
295(2)
Major Gothic buildings
297(3)
Popular religion
300(4)
Interpreting the Bible
304(3)
Medieval monasticism in the West
307(9)
The monk's day
309(1)
A contented monk
310(1)
A discontented monk
311(1)
A medieval monastery
312(1)
How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built
313(3)
The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia
316(4)
Persecution and Inquisition
320(10)
The Cathars
322(5)
The Waldensians
327(3)
An Age of Unrest
330(22)
Jan Hus
336(4)
Savonarola
340(4)
John Wyclif
344(1)
Wyclif's Bible
345(2)
William of Ockham
347(5)
SECTION 5 REFORM 1500-1650
Seeds of Renewal
352(14)
The Imitation of Christ
362(4)
Reform
366(44)
Martin Luther
368(3)
A safe stronghold
371(3)
The faith of the Protestants
374(3)
Philip Melanchthon
377(1)
Martin Bucer
378(1)
Huldreich Zwingli
379(1)
John Calvin
380(2)
Theodore Beza
382(6)
Puritans and Separatists
388(3)
Thomas Cranmer
391(2)
John Bunyan
393(2)
A flood of Bibles
395(6)
William Tyndale and the English Bible
398(3)
The Anabaptists
401(9)
Early English Baptists
406(4)
The Catholic Reformation
410(26)
Gasparo Contarini
413(4)
Ignatius of Loyola
417(2)
The Jesuits
419(5)
Teresa of Avila
424(2)
John of the Cross
426(3)
Art and the spirit
429(7)
SECTION 6 REASON, REVIVAL AND REVOLUTION 1650-1789
Awakening
436(30)
Jonathan Edwards
440(2)
George Whitefield
442(3)
Philip Jacob Spener
445(3)
Howell Harris
448(5)
The Methodists
453(9)
John and Charles Wesley
454(4)
Hymns and church music
458(4)
The Russian Church
462(4)
Expansion World-Wide
466(19)
The first English missions
478(3)
Map: Expansion world-wide
481(2)
Count von Zinzendorf
483(2)
Reason and Unreason
485(23)
Blaise Pascal
488(9)
The reasonableness of Christianity
497(3)
George Fox and the Quakers
500(4)
The Unitarians
504(4)
SECTION 7 CITIES AND EMPIRES 1789-1914
Europe in Revolt
508(10)
Pope Pius IX
514(4)
The First Industrial Nation
518(30)
The Salvation Army
522(3)
Thomas Chalmers
525(1)
The Brethren
526(4)
The Oxford Movement
530(2)
Cardinal Newman
532(3)
C.H. Spurgeon
535(1)
God's Grandeur
536(2)
The Evangelicals
538(3)
Hymns and church music after 1800
541(3)
A crusade among equals
544(4)
D.L. Moody
545(3)
A World Come of Age
548(9)
Friedrich Schleiermacher
551(6)
Outposts of Empire
557(27)
Map: World empires 1914
558(5)
William Wilberforce
563(1)
David Livingstone
564(5)
Samuel Adjai Crowther
569(2)
Societies for mission
571(6)
William Carey
572(2)
Hudson Taylor
574(3)
The Bible Societies
577(5)
SECTION 8 PRESENT AND FUTURE
Time-chart: The modern world
582(2)
An Age of Ideology
584(26)
The Christian church and the Jews
594(12)
Martin Luther King
606(4)
An Age of Anxiety
610(18)
Albert Schweitzer
612(7)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
619(2)
C.S. Lewis
621(5)
How many theologies?
626(2)
An Age of Liberation
628(32)
Toyohiko Kagawa
630(3)
Billy Graham
633(4)
Helder Camara
637(2)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
639(1)
Pope John XXIII
640(6)
Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
646(5)
African independent churches
651(3)
Translating the Bible
654(3)
Organizing for unity
657(3)
Present and Future
660(11)
Reference section
661

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