A New History of Christianity

by Green, Vivian

• ISBN13: 9780826412270
• ISBN10: 0826412270
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Written from an objective historical perspective, A New History of Christianity provides the best readable yet scholarly one-volume account of Christianity from its origins to the present day.Chapters cover Christian beginnings, the growth of the early Christian communities, the character of the medieval Church, popular religion, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the early modern Church, the Church in the nineteenth century, the Church in war and peace, and the crisis of the modern Church>

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Lord Runcie
Preface	ix
Chronology of Events	xi
Introduction	xix
Christian Beginnings	1	(24)
The origins of the Christian Church	2	(5)
The early Christian community	7	(6)
Problems of belief in the early Church	13	(3)
Repression and persecution	16	(9)
The Church Triumphant	25	(20)
The defeat of paganism	25	(3)
Church-building	28	(1)
Martyrs, saints and pilgrimages	29	(3)
Theological controversies	32	(3)
The growing prestige of the Roman see	35	(2)
The champions of orthodoxy: St Ambrose, St Jerome, St Augustine	37	(3)
The emergence of monasticism	40	(5)
The Matrix of Medieval Christianity	45	(27)
The Christianization of the barbarian peoples	46	(4)
The character of the Church in the Dark Ages	50	(3)
The papacy in the Dark Ages	53	(1)
Monasticism	54	(2)
The Anglo-Saxon Church	56	(2)
The Carolingian renaissance	58	(4)
The Viking threat	62	(1)
The revival of monasticism	63	(1)
The papacy in decline	64	(2)
The Byzantine Church	66	(6)
The Medieval Church: Renovation and Retroaction	72	(30)
The regeneration of the Church	73	(6)
The monastic resurgence	79	(5)
Developments in Christian thought	84	(3)
The bureaucratization of the papacy	87	(2)
The crusades	89	(2)
Monasticism in the later Middle Ages	91	(2)
Developments in scholasticism	93	(1)
Medieval heresy	93	(4)
The conciliar movement	97	(5)
Popular Religion: Faith and Fable	102	(22)
The ecclesiastical hierarchy	104	(2)
The parochial clergy	106	(1)
The Mass	107	(3)
The function of the parish priest	110	(3)
Church life	113	(1)
The religion of the laity	114	(2)
The cult of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints	116	(4)
Pilgrimages	120	(2)
The last things	122	(2)
The Protestant Reformation	124	(36)
Prelude to the Protestant Reformation	125	(3)
Martin Luther and the German Reformation	128	(5)
Zwingli and Calvin	133	(4)
The Reformation in France	137	(3)
The Reformation in Scotland	140	(1)
The Reformation in the Low Countries	140	(2)
The English Reformation	142	(10)
The Reformation in Scandinavia	152	(1)
The Radical Reformation	153	(2)
The Protestant ethos	155	(5)
The Catholic Reformation	160	(26)
The sources of the Catholic Reformation	161	(1)
The Society of Jesus	162	(2)
The Council of Trent	164	(3)
The revival of the papacy	167	(2)
The Catholic Reformation and education	169	(1)
The new religious orders	170	(2)
Reform of the episcopate and parochial clergy	172	(3)
Missionary activity	175	(11)
Strife, Enlightenment and Renewal, c. 1600--1815	186	(45)
Roman Catholicism after the Council of Trent	189	(1)
Religion in England	190	(7)
Repression and toleration	197	(2)
Jansenism	199	(3)
The dissolution of the Jesuits	202	(2)
Church and State	204	(2)
The Orthodox Church in Russia	206	(2)
The Philosophes	208	(2)
The springs of religious revival	210	(9)
Religion in North America	219	(3)
The French Revolution	222	(9)
An Age of Ecclesiastical Imperialism, c. 1815--80	231	(52)
The restoration of papal authority	235	(3)
The Roman Church in North America	238	(1)
The Roman Church in Latin America	239	(2)
Missionary activity in the Roman Church	241	(1)
The Church of England in the early nineteenth century	242	(3)
Religious experience in North America	245	(4)
The Orthodox Church	249	(3)
Reforms, revolutions and reaction under Pius IX	252	(4)
The Kulturkampf	256	(1)
The Roman Catholic Church in France after 1870	257	(3)
The missionary Churches	260	(6)
The Churches in South Africa	266	(5)
The Churches in Asia	271	(3)
The evangelization of the Pacific	274	(2)
Alternative faiths	276	(2)
Developments in theology	278	(5)
The Church in War and Peace, c. 1880--1945	283	(44)
The papacy after Pius IX	285	(13)
The Churches in England	298	(5)
German Protestantism	303	(2)
The repression of the Orthodox Church	305	(3)
Religion in North America	308	(2)
The Church in Latin America	310	(1)
The missionary Churches	311	(6)
The Black Churches of Africa	317	(2)
The Churches in Asia	319	(2)
The oecumenical movement	321	(2)
Developments in theology	323	(4)
The Crisis of the Modern Church	327	(72)
Rome and the Second Vatican Council	331	(11)
The Church in the United Kingdom	342	(4)
The ordination of women and disestablishment	346	(5)
Roman Catholics in Britain	351	(2)
Reunion and oecumenicism	353	(2)
Roman Catholics in France	355	(3)
The Churches in postwar Germany	358	(2)
Christianity in Russia and Eastern Europe	360	(7)
Religion in North America	367	(6)
Ferment in Latin America	373	(3)
Christianity in Africa	376	(3)
The position of the Churches in Asia	379	(3)
Agencies of religious renewal	382	(3)
The `fringe' Churches	385	(2)
Religious extremes	387	(1)
Churches and changes in moral values	388	(3)
Theology in the late twentieth century	391	(8)
Epilogue	399	(4)
Select Bibliography	403	(14)
Index	417