History of the World Christian Movement

History of the World Christian Movement shows that from the beginning Christianity has been a world religion, informed and shaped through the interplay of gospel and culture church and world.

Dale T. Irvin is professor of World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary Scott W. Sunquist is associate professor of World Mission and Evangelism at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Foreword

vii

List of Maps

xiii

List of Illustrations

xv

PART I INTO ALL THE WORLD

Beginnings of the World Christian Movement

1

(2)

The Civilizations and Cultures of the World

3

(8)

Judaism at the Time of Jesus

11

(36)

Christian Beginnings

The Jesus Movement

22

(25)

PART II DIVERSE TRAJECTORIES OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT

47

(52)

Apostolic Memory in Several Gospels

50

(7)

The Early Christian Movement in Syria and Mesopotamia

57

(9)

The Early Christian Movement in Greece and Asia Minor

66

(8)

The Early Christian Movement in the Western Mediterranean

74

(12)

The Early Christian Movement in Alexandria and Egypt

86

(6)

``Every Foreign Land''

92

(7)

PART III THE GREAT CHURCH TAKES SHAPE

99

(408)

The Great Church Emerges

102

(13)

Gnostics, Catholics, and Manichaeans

115

(14)

Christians, Jews, and Israel's Heritage of Monotheism

129

(8)

Spiritual Currents and Social Life across Cultures

137

(23)

PART IV THE AGE OF THE IMPERIAL CHURCH

Affirmations and Dissent (c.300 to c.600)

155

(5)

The Conversion of Constantine and the Making of an Imperial Church

160

(13)

Donatists and Catholics

A Struggle over Holiness and Unity in Roman North Africa

166

(7)

The Arian-Nicene Controversy and the Making of Orthodoxy

173

(11)

The Road to Chalcedon and Christological Diversity

184

(25)

The Christian Movement in the East

Syria and the Emergence of a Persian National Church

195

(14)

Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia

209

(11)

Rome and the Latin Churches in the West

220

(20)

The Age of Justinian and Theodora in the Eastern Roman Empire

240

(20)

PART V NEW CHALLENGES, NEW BEGINNINGS

600 to 1000

257

(3)

The Land of Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, and the Rise of Islam

260

(29)

The Christian Movement and the Islamic Caliphate 1

Syria and Persia

271

(18)

The Christian Movement in Africa and Spain

289

(16)

Expansion of the Christian Movement in India, Central Asia, and China

305

(18)

The Making of Christendom in the West

323

(20)

Monasticism in the West

343

(11)

Christianity in the East Roman Empire

354

(18)

Christian Expansion Northward

372

(15)

PART VI NEW POLITICAL HORIZONS

1000 to 1453

383

(4)

Controversy and Crisis in Christendom

387

(8)

Christendom on Crusade in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

395

(11)

Spiritual Renewal in Western Christendom 1100--1300

406

(17)

Intellectual Renewal in Western Christendom 1100--1300

423

(17)

Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century

440

(10)

Christianity in Asia under the Mongols

450

(20)

Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia

470

(6)

Western Christendom 1300--1450

476

(16)

The Christian Movement in the East until 1453

492

(15)

Index to Names of Persons and Deities

507

(7)

Index to Subjects

514

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