A Brief History of Christianity

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ISBN: 9781405110785 | 1405110783
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/18/2005

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This brief history tells the story of Christianity from its origins to the present day. It spans over 2,000 years of colorful incident to give an authoritative history of Christianity for both the general reader and the beginning student. Ranging from the missionary journeys of the apostles to the tele-evangelism of the twenty-first century, this concise and compelling book also includes an introduction to the historiography of Christianity, an appendix on theological terms, and a bibliography.

Preface	p. x
The Responsibility to Remember: An Introduction to the Historiography of Christianity	p. 1
Tradition and Confession	p. 4
The Law of Praying is the Law of Believing	p. 6
The Roman Empire and its Political Achievements	p. 10
Hellenization and its Cultural Achievements	p. 10
Development of the Biblical Canon	p. 12
Sibling Rivalry: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Ecumenical Councils	p. 17
The Structure of Tradition: Confession and Doctrine	p. 18
Doctrine as a Key to Christian Memory and Identity	p. 19
Heresy	p. 21
Jesus' Relationship to God: The Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 22
From the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Constantinople	p. 26
Jesus and Humankind: Christology	p. 28
The Heavenly City: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Religion and Hellenism	p. 35
Augustine's Path to Conversion	p. 40
Augustine's Theological Contributions	p. 41
Augustine and Donatism	p. 44
The Pelagian Controversy	p. 47
The Development of Medieval Christendom	p. 51
Monasticism to Mission	p. 52
The Emergence of the Papacy	p. 54
Papacy and Empire	p. 59
The Gregorian Reform	p. 61
The Investiture Conflict	p. 66
The Crusades	p. 68
Faith in Search of Understanding: Anselm, Abelard, and the Beginnings of Scholasticism	p. 71
Universities and Scholasticism	p. 73
Contributions of Early Scholastic Theology	p. 79
The Medieval Church	p. 84
The Cultural and Theological Development of the Sacraments	p. 84
The Rise of the Mendicant Orders	p. 89
The Rise and Decline of Papal Authority	p. 95
The Decline of the Papacy	p. 97
Conciliarism	p. 99
The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century	p. 104
Context	p. 105
The Reformation in Germany	p. 108
The Reformation in Switzerland	p. 112
The Reformation in France	p. 116
The Reformation in England	p. 117
Scandinavia and Eastern Europe	p. 120
Early Modern Catholicism	p. 121
The Reformations' Aftermath	p. 122
Pietism and the Enlightenment	p. 125
The Enlightenment	p. 135
The Catholic Church and the Enlightenment	p. 141
Challenge and Response: The Church in the Nineteenth Century	p. 143
The Churches and the French Revolution	p. 144
From the French Revolution to the Congress of Vienna	p. 145
Church Reform in Germany: The Prussian Union and its Consequences	p. 146
Inner Mission and the Social Question	p. 147
The Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century	p. 152
Pope Pius IX and Vatican I	p. 153
From Kulturkampf to the Anti-Modernist Oath	p. 154
Nineteenth-Century Theology	p. 155
The Awakening	p. 157
Theological Currents	p. 158
Liberal Theology	p. 160
The Christian Churches since World War I	p. 163
New Formulations in Protestant Theology	p. 164
The Churches during National Socialism	p. 167
Developments in the Catholic Church after World War I	p. 171
The Ecumenical Movement	p. 173
Back to the Future: Christianity in Global Context	p. 179
Periodization	p. 181
Glossary	p. 189
Further Reading	p. 195
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