The story of Christianity : from birth to global presence / Jakob Balling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balling, Jakob.

Standardized Title:

Kristendommen. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Church history.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 The Birth of a Religion 1

1. The Beginnings 3

2. Palestine and the Jews 3

3. Jesus 5

4. Christianity after Easter 10

5. Ways of Faith and Ways of Life 16

a. Who Is Christ? 17

b. What Is the Church? 18

c. What Is the Christian Life? 21

d. Unity and Diversity 25

6. Consolidation 27

Part 2 Christianity as a Mediterranean Religion 31

1. Context and Events 33

2. Mediterranean Christianity

Internally 36

a. Worship 37

b. History 41

c. The Lord 47

d. Man 53

e. The Church 60

3. Mediterranean Christianity

Externally 74

a. The City 74

b. The Empire 77

c. Culture 86

d. Antiquity and Christianity 91

4. Eastern Christianity 97

a. Departures and Traditions in the Christian East 97

b. Living Orthodoxy 99

c. Christianity in Asia 109

d. East and West 112

5. From the Mediterranean to Europe 114

Part 3 Christianity as a European Religion 121

1. Old Europe 123

2. Old European Christianity: The Time of the Church 129

a. The Course of Events 129

b. The "Common Faith" 134

c. Royal Christianity 145

d. Papal Christianity 152

e. Monastic Christianity 159

f. The Christianity of Theologians 168

g. Popular Christianity 172

h. Deviant Christianity 179

i. From the Church to the Churches 181

3. Old European Christianity: The Time of the Churches 188

a. Luther's Christianity

and Calvin's 188

b. Warring Creeds 198

c. The New Churches 200

d. Churches, Societies, and People 209

e. Personal Christianity 218

f. The Crisis of the Churches: Causes and Expressions 222

g. The Crisis of the Churches: Consequences and Responses 226

4. Old European Christianity in the Mirror of the Poets 232

Part 4 Christianity as a World Religion 235

1. "Modernity" 237

2. The Ways of Secularization 242

3. Modern European and American Christianity 249

a. Churches, Congregations, and People 249

b. Christian Thought Confronted by Modernity 259

4. The World Religion 269

a. "A House for the Sufferings of Christ" 269

b. World Mission and Its Problems 273

5. Challenges and Tendencies at the Turn of the Millennium 281

a. Social Trends 281

b. A New Balance 282

c. Organization of Community 282

d. Ways of Thinking 284

e. The Ecumenical Movement 285.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0802839444

OCLC:

52121472