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Introduction to the History of Christianity

by: Dowley, Tim; Briggs, John H. Y.; Linder, Robert D.; Wright, David F.

Introduction to the History of Christianity

by: Dowley, Tim; Briggs, John H. Y.; Linder, Robert D.; Wright, David F.

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9780800634964
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0800634969
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/01/2002
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
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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.

SECTION 1 GOD AND HISTORY

Time-chart: The Christian centuries

(2)

God, Time and History

(43)

Josephus

(1)

Bede

(3)

Eusebius

(2)

John Foxe

(1)

Kenneth Latourette

(1)

Time and progress

(3)

Worship and the Christian year

(5)

The church year

(2)

Weighing up the evidence

(3)

Christianity and the arts

(7)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1)

Leo Tolstoy

(2)

Buildings and beliefs

(4)

The rise of modern science

(3)

Christians and war

(5)

SECTION 2 BEGINNINGS 1-325

Time-chart: Beginnings

(1)

The Church Expands: Jerusalem to Rome

(25)

Map: The Roman world

(1)

Peter

(2)

Paul

(4)

Maps: Christianity expands

(1)

`Those Christians'

(2)

Archaeological light on earliest Christianity

(9)

Roman religion

(2)

A puzzle

(1)

The religion of the Romans

(4)

Spreading the good news

(4)

The Challenge to Faith

(19)

Ignatius of Antioch

(2)

Nero's spectacular massacre

(2)

The Montanists

(2)

Novatianists

(2)

Perpetua

(2)

Cyprian and North Africa

(1)

Justin Martyr

(2)

The Gnostics

(5)

Manichaens

(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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