Church History in Plain Language : Third Edition

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• ISBN13: 9780718025533
• ISBN10: 0718025539
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-02
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

With more than 275,000 copies sold, this is the story of the Church for today's readers.This third edition improves the most engaging and readable single-volume history of the Church by bringing the story into the twenty-first century. Faced with some astonishing changes in the Islamic world, a global resurgence of Roman Catholicism, the decline of Christianity in the West coupled with the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern and eastern hemispheres, readers need a current explanation with intellectual substance that will provide historical context and update readers on all these new developments. The new edition of Church History in Plain Language does that in a stimulating manner, and it promises to be the new standard for readable Church History.Features include: Includes contemporary developments, such as the growth of Christianity in China and the rise of global Islam

Author Biography

Dr. Bruce Shelley is Senior Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Denver Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Prologue	p. xv
The Age of Jesus and the Apostles 6 BC-AD 70
Away with the King: The Jesus Movement	p. 3
Wineskins: Old and New: The Gospel to the Gentiles	p. 13
The Age of Catholic Christianity 70-312
Only Worthless People: Catholic Christianity	p. 27
If the Tiber Floods: The Persecution of Christians	p. 37
Arguing about the Event: The Rise of Orthodoxy	p. 46
The Rule of Books: The Formation of the Bible	p. 57
The School for Sinners: The Power of Bishops	p. 69
Apostles to Intellectuals: The Alexandrians	p. 78
The Age of the Christian Roman Empire 312-590
Laying Her Sceptre Down: The Conversion of the Empire	p. 91
Splitting Important Hairs: The Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 99
Emmanuel!: Christ in the Creeds	p. 108
Exiles from Life: The Beginnings of Monasticism	p. 116
The Sage of the Ages: Augustine	p. 124
Peter as "Pontifex Maximus": The Beginnings of the Papacy	p. 132
Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth: Eastern Orthodoxy	p. 141
Bending the Necks of Victors: Mission to the Barbarians	p. 152
The Christian Middle Ages 590-1517
God's Consul: Gregory the Great	p. 163
The Search for Unity: Charlemagne and Christendom	p. 173
Lifted in a Mystic Manner: The Papacy and the Crusader	p. 183
The Nectar of Learning: Scholasticism	p. 194
A Song to Lady Poverty: The Apostolic Life-Style	p. 204
Sleeping Men and the Law of Necessity: The Decline of the Papacy	p. 215
Judgment in the Process of Time: Wyclif and Hus	p. 224
The Age of the Reformation 1517-1648
A Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther and Protestantism	p. 237
Radical Discipleship: The Anabaptists	p. 247
Thrust into the Game: John Calvin	p. 256
The Curse upon the Crown: The Church of England	p. 264
"Another Man" at Manresa: The Catholic Reformation	p. 271
Opening the Rock: America and Asia	p. 280
The Rule of the Saints: Puritanism	p. 291
Unwilling to Die for an Old Idea: Denominations	p. 301
The Age of Reason and Revival 1648-1789
Aiming at the Foundations: The Cult of Reason	p. 311
The Heart and Its Reasons: Pascal and the Pietists	p. 320
A Brand from the Burning: Wesley and Methodism	p. 331
A New Order of the Ages: The Great Awakening	p. 341
The Age of Progress 1789-1914
The Restoration of Fortresses: Catholicism in the Age of Progress	p. 353
A New Social Frontier: Nineteenth-Century England	p. 364
To Earth's Remotest People: Protestant Missions	p. 373
The Destiny of a Nation: A Christian America	p. 383
A Bridge for Intelligent Moderns: Protestant Liberalism	p. 394
Nothing to Lose but Chains: The Social Crisis	p. 405
The Age of Ideologies 1914-
Graffiti on a Wall of Shame: Twentieth-Century Ideologies	p. 419
Rootless Immigrants in a Sick Society: American Evangelicals	p. 430
New Creeds for Breakfast: The Ecumenical Movement	p. 441
The Medicine of Mercy: Roman Catholicism: Vatican II	p. 451
Time for a Reverse Flow: Christianity in the Third World	p. 461
Politics as Noble Calling: Christianity in America's Me Generation	p. 470
The Global Village: Christianity on the World Scene	p. 482
Winds from Afar: Christianity at the Birth of the Third Millennium	p. 491
Epilogue	p. 501
Notes	p. 507
List of Popes from Leo I to the Present	p. 517
Indexes (People, Movements, Events)	p. 521
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