God's Peoples

by Spickard, Paul R.; Cragg, Kevin M.; Carlson, Gordon William

• ISBN13: 9780801025853
• ISBN10: 0801025850
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group

Summary

Part of this multicultural balance means expanded discussion of theologies and influences on the fringe or outside of accepted orthodoxy--ideas that made an impact on the Christian church throughout the ages.

Table of Contents

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