Introduction to the History of Christianity

by Dowley, Tim; Briggs, John H. Y.; Linder, Robert D.; Wright, David F.

• ISBN13: 9780800634964
• ISBN10: 0800634969
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

One-volume illustrated reference book on the history of Christianity is now available in a paperback edition. Written by more than sixty specialist from ten countries that tells the story of Christianity's 2000-year history.

Table of Contents

SECTION 1 GOD AND HISTORY
Time-chart: The Christian centuries	12	(2)
God, Time and History	14	(43)
Josephus	18	(1)
Bede	19	(3)
Eusebius	22	(2)
John Foxe	24	(1)
Kenneth Latourette	25	(1)
Time and progress	26	(3)
Worship and the Christian year	29	(5)
The church year	32	(2)
Weighing up the evidence	34	(3)
Christianity and the arts	37	(7)
Fyodor Dostoevsky	41	(1)
Leo Tolstoy	42	(2)
Buildings and beliefs	44	(4)
The rise of modern science	48	(3)
Christians and war	51	(5)
SECTION 2 BEGINNINGS 1-325
Time-chart: Beginnings	56	(1)
The Church Expands: Jerusalem to Rome	57	(25)
Map: The Roman world	59	(1)
Peter	60	(2)
Paul	62	(4)
Maps: Christianity expands	66	(1)
`Those Christians'	67	(2)
Archaeological light on earliest Christianity	69	(9)
Roman religion	71	(2)
A puzzle	73	(1)
The religion of the Romans	74	(4)
Spreading the good news	78	(4)
The Challenge to Faith	82	(19)
Ignatius of Antioch	83	(2)
Nero's spectacular massacre	85	(2)
The Montanists	87	(2)
Novatianists	89	(2)
Perpetua	91	(2)
Cyprian and North Africa	93	(1)
Justin Martyr	94	(2)
The Gnostics	96	(5)
Manichaens	98	(2)
Irenaeus	100	(1)
What the First Christians Believed	101	(38)
Marcion	104	(3)
Origen	107	(5)
Tertullian	112	(11)
How the first Christians worshipped	123	(7)
The Passover	124	(2)
Clement of Rome	126	(2)
A service in second-century Rome	128	(1)
Instructions for worship and leadership	129	(1)
How the New Testament has come down to us	130	(8)
Rescuing a manuscript	131	(2)
Can the text be trusted?	133	(1)
Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament	134	(4)
SECTION 3 ACCEPTANCE AND CONQUEST 325-600
Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest	138	(1)
Constantine and the Christian Empire	139	(25)
Athanasius	145	(3)
A hymn of Ambrose	148	(1)
Ambrose of Milan	149	(3)
Worship and the Christian year	152	(2)
The Apostles' Creed	153	(1)
Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places	154	(4)
Building for worship	158	(6)
Maps: Acceptance and conquest	162	(2)
Councils and Creeds	164	(23)
Basil the Great	175	(2)
The Nicene Creed	177	(3)
Nestorius	180	(2)
Cyril of Alexandria	182	(2)
Leo the Great	184	(3)
The Fall of the Roman Empire	187	(25)
Ulfilas' Gothic Bible	188	(7)
Clergy, bishops and pope	195	(9)
Jerome	196	(3)
John Chrysostom	199	(3)
Columba	202	(2)
The church in North Africa	204	(8)
Augustine of Hippo	206	(2)
Augustine describes his conversion	208	(2)
The Donatists in North Africa	210	(2)
Christian Ascetics and Monks	212	(16)
Patrick	219	(1)
Life in Benedict's monastery	220	(3)
Cassiodorus	223	(3)
SECTION 4 A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY 600-1500
Time-chart: A Christian society	226	(2)
The West in Crisis	228	(19)
Boethius	229	(1)
Gregory the Great	230	(11)
Alcuin	241	(3)
Map: The West under threat: eighth to tenth centuries	244	(3)
The Eastern Church	247	(13)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite	252	(2)
The Paulicians and the Bogomils	254	(6)
Flowering: The Western Church	260	(70)
Pope Innocent III	263	(1)
`The moon and the sun'	264	(1)
The sacraments are developed	265	(3)
Bernard of Clairvaux	268	(1)
A Cistercian hymn	269	(3)
Francis of Assisi	272	(2)
The rule of Francis	274	(4)
The Crusades	278	(5)
God's non-existence inconceivable	283	(1)
Anselm	284	(2)
Scholasticism	286	(2)
Peter Abelard	288	(2)
Thomas Becket	290	(2)
Thomas Aquinas	292	(3)
Cathedrals and their builders	295	(2)
Major Gothic buildings	297	(3)
Popular religion	300	(4)
Interpreting the Bible	304	(3)
Medieval monasticism in the West	307	(9)
The monk's day	309	(1)
A contented monk	310	(1)
A discontented monk	311	(1)
A medieval monastery	312	(1)
How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built	313	(3)
The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia	316	(4)
Persecution and Inquisition	320	(10)
The Cathars	322	(5)
The Waldensians	327	(3)
An Age of Unrest	330	(22)
Jan Hus	336	(4)
Savonarola	340	(4)
John Wyclif	344	(1)
Wyclif's Bible	345	(2)
William of Ockham	347	(5)
SECTION 5 REFORM 1500-1650
Seeds of Renewal	352	(14)
The Imitation of Christ	362	(4)
Reform	366	(44)
Martin Luther	368	(3)
A safe stronghold	371	(3)
The faith of the Protestants	374	(3)
Philip Melanchthon	377	(1)
Martin Bucer	378	(1)
Huldreich Zwingli	379	(1)
John Calvin	380	(2)
Theodore Beza	382	(6)
Puritans and Separatists	388	(3)
Thomas Cranmer	391	(2)
John Bunyan	393	(2)
A flood of Bibles	395	(6)
William Tyndale and the English Bible	398	(3)
The Anabaptists	401	(9)
Early English Baptists	406	(4)
The Catholic Reformation	410	(26)
Gasparo Contarini	413	(4)
Ignatius of Loyola	417	(2)
The Jesuits	419	(5)
Teresa of Avila	424	(2)
John of the Cross	426	(3)
Art and the spirit	429	(7)
SECTION 6 REASON, REVIVAL AND REVOLUTION 1650-1789
Awakening	436	(30)
Jonathan Edwards	440	(2)
George Whitefield	442	(3)
Philip Jacob Spener	445	(3)
Howell Harris	448	(5)
The Methodists	453	(9)
John and Charles Wesley	454	(4)
Hymns and church music	458	(4)
The Russian Church	462	(4)
Expansion World-Wide	466	(19)
The first English missions	478	(3)
Map: Expansion world-wide	481	(2)
Count von Zinzendorf	483	(2)
Reason and Unreason	485	(23)
Blaise Pascal	488	(9)
The reasonableness of Christianity	497	(3)
George Fox and the Quakers	500	(4)
The Unitarians	504	(4)
SECTION 7 CITIES AND EMPIRES 1789-1914
Europe in Revolt	508	(10)
Pope Pius IX	514	(4)
The First Industrial Nation	518	(30)
The Salvation Army	522	(3)
Thomas Chalmers	525	(1)
The Brethren	526	(4)
The Oxford Movement	530	(2)
Cardinal Newman	532	(3)
C.H. Spurgeon	535	(1)
God's Grandeur	536	(2)
The Evangelicals	538	(3)
Hymns and church music after 1800	541	(3)
A crusade among equals	544	(4)
D.L. Moody	545	(3)
A World Come of Age	548	(9)
Friedrich Schleiermacher	551	(6)
Outposts of Empire	557	(27)
Map: World empires 1914	558	(5)
William Wilberforce	563	(1)
David Livingstone	564	(5)
Samuel Adjai Crowther	569	(2)
Societies for mission	571	(6)
William Carey	572	(2)
Hudson Taylor	574	(3)
The Bible Societies	577	(5)
SECTION 8 PRESENT AND FUTURE
Time-chart: The modern world	582	(2)
An Age of Ideology	584	(26)
The Christian church and the Jews	594	(12)
Martin Luther King	606	(4)
An Age of Anxiety	610	(18)
Albert Schweitzer	612	(7)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	619	(2)
C.S. Lewis	621	(5)
How many theologies?	626	(2)
An Age of Liberation	628	(32)
Toyohiko Kagawa	630	(3)
Billy Graham	633	(4)
Helder Camara	637	(2)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn	639	(1)
Pope John XXIII	640	(6)
Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement	646	(5)
African independent churches	651	(3)
Translating the Bible	654	(3)
Organizing for unity	657	(3)
Present and Future	660	(11)
Reference section	661