Global History of Christians : How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World

by Spickard, Paul R., and Kevin M. Cragg

• ISBN13: 9780801022494
• ISBN10: 0801022495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

Surveys the progression of the Christian experience within historical, social, economic, and cultural contexts

Author Biography

Paul R. Spickard (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kevin M. Cragg (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is professor of history at Bethel College.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(3)
The World of the First Christians	12	(18)
Christians in the Roman World	30	(25)
The Fourth-Century Turning Point	55	(12)
The Age of Faith	67	(35)
Eastern Orthodoxy: Christians Who Never Changed?	102	(24)
Christians in the Non-Christian World to 1500	126	(20)
Transformation and Renaissance	146	(25)
The Reformation	171	(29)
European Expansion, 1500-1800	200	(32)
European Christianity after the Reformation, 1600-1900	232	(27)
Early America	259	(21)
Nineteenth-Century Europe and North America: Mission and Uplift	280	(23)
Christianity As a Worldwide Phenomenon, 1750-1950	303	(40)
The Context for the Modern Church	343	(25)
Twentieth-Century Europe: The Church in Decline	368	(15)
Twentieth-Century America	383	(43)
Around the World Since World War II	426	(29)
Appendixes	455	(2)
Notes	457	(3)
Index	460