History of the World Christian Movement

by Irvin, Dale T.

• ISBN13: 9781570753961
• ISBN10: 1570753962
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

History of the World Christian Movement shows that from the beginning Christianity has been a world religion, informed and shaped through the interplay of gospel and culture church and world.

Author Biography

Dale T. Irvin is professor of World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary Scott W. Sunquist is associate professor of World Mission and Evangelism at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
List of Maps	xiii
List of Illustrations	xv
PART I INTO ALL THE WORLD
Beginnings of the World Christian Movement	1	(2)
The Civilizations and Cultures of the World	3	(8)
Judaism at the Time of Jesus	11	(36)
Christian Beginnings
The Jesus Movement	22	(25)
PART II DIVERSE TRAJECTORIES OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT	47	(52)
Apostolic Memory in Several Gospels	50	(7)
The Early Christian Movement in Syria and Mesopotamia	57	(9)
The Early Christian Movement in Greece and Asia Minor	66	(8)
The Early Christian Movement in the Western Mediterranean	74	(12)
The Early Christian Movement in Alexandria and Egypt	86	(6)
``Every Foreign Land''	92	(7)
PART III THE GREAT CHURCH TAKES SHAPE	99	(408)
The Great Church Emerges	102	(13)
Gnostics, Catholics, and Manichaeans	115	(14)
Christians, Jews, and Israel's Heritage of Monotheism	129	(8)
Spiritual Currents and Social Life across Cultures	137	(23)
PART IV THE AGE OF THE IMPERIAL CHURCH
Affirmations and Dissent (c.300 to c.600)	155	(5)
The Conversion of Constantine and the Making of an Imperial Church	160	(13)
Donatists and Catholics
A Struggle over Holiness and Unity in Roman North Africa	166	(7)
The Arian-Nicene Controversy and the Making of Orthodoxy	173	(11)
The Road to Chalcedon and Christological Diversity	184	(25)
The Christian Movement in the East
Syria and the Emergence of a Persian National Church	195	(14)
Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia	209	(11)
Rome and the Latin Churches in the West	220	(20)
The Age of Justinian and Theodora in the Eastern Roman Empire	240	(20)
PART V NEW CHALLENGES, NEW BEGINNINGS
600 to 1000	257	(3)
The Land of Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, and the Rise of Islam	260	(29)
The Christian Movement and the Islamic Caliphate 1
Syria and Persia	271	(18)
The Christian Movement in Africa and Spain	289	(16)
Expansion of the Christian Movement in India, Central Asia, and China	305	(18)
The Making of Christendom in the West	323	(20)
Monasticism in the West	343	(11)
Christianity in the East Roman Empire	354	(18)
Christian Expansion Northward	372	(15)
PART VI NEW POLITICAL HORIZONS
1000 to 1453	383	(4)
Controversy and Crisis in Christendom	387	(8)
Christendom on Crusade in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	395	(11)
Spiritual Renewal in Western Christendom 1100--1300	406	(17)
Intellectual Renewal in Western Christendom 1100--1300	423	(17)
Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century	440	(10)
Christianity in Asia under the Mongols	450	(20)
Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia	470	(6)
Western Christendom 1300--1450	476	(16)
The Christian Movement in the East until 1453	492	(15)
Index to Names of Persons and Deities	507	(7)
Index to Subjects	514