The Routledge Companion to Christian History

by Cook; Chris

• ISBN13: 9780415383622
• ISBN10: 0415383625
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780429603884
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers: all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the rise of Fundamentalism the impact of Islam, the Crusades, Monasticism, and the spread of popular religious movements cross-cultural coverage; as well as Western Christendom, the Orthodox churches of the East and the 'new' churches of Asia and Africa. Fully cross referenced throughout with a combination of chronologies, glossary and statistics this packed volumes contains everything for the first time student or for anyone revisiting the subject.

Table of Contents

Outline topic chronologies

The early church (from the Apostolic Age to the Council of Nicaea

The Spread and development of Christianity

The Western church in the Dark Ages

The conversion of the British Isles

The impact of Islam

The Northern Crusades: the Teutonic Knights and Northern Europe

Papacy and Empire: the struggle for supremacy

The Reconquista: Spain and the Moors

Monasticism and religious orders

The church militant: The Crusades and the Holy land

Medieval heresy: The Albigensian Crusade

The Eastern Church: iconoclasm 1054 and Rus

The Great Schism: The Avignon papacy

The Church and Jews: medieval anti-Semitism

Precursors of the reformation: Wyclif and Hus

Luther and the reformation in Germany

Calvin, Geneva and French Protestantism

The reformation in England and Scotland

The Reformation in Northern Europe

The Radical reformation: Anabaptists etc

The Counter-reformation and the Council of Trent

Religious Controversy in England, 1603-168823 Religious wars in Europe (France, the 30 years war)

The challenge of Rationalism: The church in the Age of the Enlightenment

The Church Overseas: South America, Asia and Africa and the Catholic missions

The church in North America: the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritanism

The Church and the Age of Revolution, 1789

The third Rome: developments in the Orthodox Church and holy Russia29 The Catholic Church under challenge: Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism in Europe and Latin America

Religious developments in England, 1750-1914: Methodism, Revivalism and change

Religion in America: The Great Awakening, Immigration and the frontier

The Church colonial: the great age of missions

The rise of the Ecumenical movement since

The Church in chains: The Russian Revolution, Communism and Militant Atheism

The Church and Totalitarianism: fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust

Twentieth Century revivalism: Black churches, Pentecostalism, Fundamentalism etc

The new Churches of the Third World38., The Church Revolutionary: Liberation theology in Latin America

The decline of European Christianity

The church in the contemporary world: crisis and controversiesLandmarks in faith, organisation and membership

Major ecumenical councils

Major synods and confessions

Major changes to Church structure

Creation of Archbishoprics and patriarchates etc

Estimates of changing church membership

Numbers of clergy, missionaries

List of key church leaders

Conflict, persecution and diplomacy

Major periods of martyrdom and persecution

Major religious wars

Major religious military orders (Templars, Teutonic Knights

Principle Concordats and other Church-state agreements

Biographies500 biographies of key figures that students need to be able to pin-point

Glossary of terms200definitions of key terms and concepts

Gazetteer of selected placesSites. Shrines, cathedrals, eg. Wittenberg, Canterbury, Compostela, Lourdes

Topic biographyEssential reading, arranged by theme

Maps section12 key maps on The Crusades, Spread of Monasticism, and division of Germany after the reformation

Index

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