The Kregel Pictorial Guide To Church History

by Hannah, John D.

• ISBN13: 9780825427831
• ISBN10: 0825427835
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Kregel Pubns

Summary

A reader-friendly presentation of the history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the early missionaries in the sixth century A.D., written by one of the evangelical world's most respected professors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	2	(4)
The Dawning of a New Era (33--100)	4	(3)
The Setting of the Church
The Coming of Christ
The Birth of the Church
The Expansion of the Church
The Organization of the Church
The Worship of the Church
The Earliest Fathers (100--150)	7	(3)
The Fathers and the Writings
The Fathers and Authority
The Fathers, Christ, and Salvation
The Fathers and Church Government
The Fathers and the Sacraments
The Fathers and ``Last Things''
The Apologists (150--300)	10	(7)
The Apologists and the Roman State
Persecution
Lapsed Christians
The Apologists and the Heresies
Gnosticism
Ebionites
Marcionites
Montanists
The Apologists and Their Contributions
Justin Martyr
Irenaeus
Tertullian
Cyprian
Origen
Significant Theological Developments by the Apologists
The Canon of Scripture
The Apologists and Church Life
Baptism
The Eucharist
The Triumph of the Church in the Empire (300--500)	17	(15)
Constantine the Great
Powerful Bishops
The Trinity of God
Adoptionism
Modalism
Arius
Council of Nicaea
The Arian Controversy
Council of Constantinople
The Person of Jesus Christ
Apollinarius
Gregory of Nazianzus
Nestorius
Eutyches
Robbers Synod of Ephesus
Council of Chalcedon
Mary As ``Mother of God''
Council of Contantinople
The Contribution of Augustine
Augustine's writings
Augustine and Grace
Augustine and Baptism
The Augustinian--Pelagian Controversy
Free Will
Foreknowledge
Predestination
Council of Ephesus
John Cassian
Synod of Orange
The Rise of Monasticism
Anthony of Egypt
Pachomius
Benedict of Nursia
Early Missions
Tribalization of Europe
Christianity and Tribes
St. Patrick
Anticipation of the Middle Ages
Index	32