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The story of Christianity: Volume 1, The early church to the reformation
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Harper One
Publication Date
c2010
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Rev. and updated, 2nd ed.
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English
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From the Book - Rev. and updated, 2nd ed.
Pt. 1. The early church
The fullness of time
Judaism in Palestine
Diaspora Judaism
The Greco-Roman world
The Church in Jerusalem
Unity and diversity
Religious life
The waning of the Jewish church
Mission to the Gentiles
The scope of the mission
Paul's work
The apostles: facts and legends
First conflicts with the state
A new Jewish sect
Persecution under Nero
Persecution under Domitian
Persecution in the second century
The correspondence between Pliny and Trajan
Ignatius of Antioch, the bearer of God
The martyrdom of Polycarp
Persecution under Marcus Aurelius
Toward the end of the second century
The defense of the faith
Base rumors and lofty criticism
The main apologists
Christian faith and pagan culture
The arguments of the apologists
The deposit of the faith
Gnosticism
Marcion
The response: canon, creed, and apostolic succession
The ancient Catholic Church
The teachers of the Church
Irenaeus of Lyons
Clement of Alexandria
Tertullian of Carthage
Origen of Alexandria
Persecution in the third century
Persecution under Septimius Severus
Under Decius
The question of the Lapsed: Cyprian and Novatian
Christian life
The social origins of early Christians
Christian worship
The organization of the Church
Missionary methods
The beginnings of Christian art
The great persecution and the final victory
Pt. II. The imperial church
Constantine
From Rome to Constantinople
From the unconquered sun to Jesus Christ
From persecution to dominance
The impact of the new order
Reactions to the new order
Official theology: Eusebius of Caesarea
The monastic reaction
The origins of monasticism
The first monks of the desert
Pachomius and communal monasticism
The spread of the monastic ideal
The schismatic reaction: Donatism
The Arian controversy and the Council of Nicea
The outbreak of the controversy
The Council of Nicea
The pagan reaction: Julian the apostate
Julian's religious policy
Athanasius of Alexandria
The early years
Through many trials
A theological agreement
Further trials
The great Cappadocians
Macrina
Basil the great
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Nazianzus
Ambrose of Milan
An unexpected election
The Bishop and the throne
John Chrysostom
A voice from the wilderness
Return to the wilderness
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
A tortuous path to faith
Minister and theologian of the Western Church
Beyond the borders of the empire
The end of an era
Pt. III. Medieval Christianity
The new order
The Germanic Kingdoms
Benedictine monasticism
The papacy
The Arab conquests
Eastern Christianity
The Christological debates to the Council of Chalcedon
Further theological debates
The dissident churches of the East
Eastern orthodoxy after the Arab conquests
Imperial restoration and continuing decay
Charlemagne's reign
Theological activity
New invasions
Decay in the papacy
Movements of renewal
Monastic reform
Canonical and papal reform
The papacy and the empire in direct confrontation
The offensive against Islam
The first Crusade
Later history of the Crusades
The Spanish reconquista
Consequences of the offensive against Islam
The golden age of Medieval Christianity
The Mendicant Orders
One flock under one shepherd
Theological activity: Scholasticism
Missionary endeavors
Stones that bear witness: architecture
The collapse
New conditions
The papacy under the shadow of France
The Great Western schism
In quest of Reformation
The Conciliar Movement
John Wyclif
John Huss
Girolamo Savonarola
The mystical alternative
Popular movements
Renaissance and humanism
The later course of Scholasticism
The revival of classical learning
A new vision of reality
The popes and the Renaissance
Pt. IV. The beginnings of Colonial Christianity
Spain and the new world
The nature of the Spanish enterprise
The protest
The Caribbean
Mexico
Golden castile
Florida
Columbia and Venezuela
The four corners of the earth: the Incan empire
La Plata
The Portuguese enterprise
Africa
Toward the rising sun
Brazil
The New World and the Old.
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