Introduction to the history of Christianity / [editor] Tim Dowley ; consulting editors, John H.Y. Briggs, Robert D. Linder, David F. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowley, Tim, editor.

Briggs, John H. Y., consulting editor.

Linder, Robert Dean, consulting editor.

Wright, David F., consulting editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history.

Physical Description:

xxi, 666 pages : color illustrations, color maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

History of Christianity

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2018]

Contents:

Pt. 1. Beginnings AD 1-325

1. Jesus: his life, ministry, death and its consequences

2. The church begins: from Jerusalem to Rome

3. Establishing Christianity: challenges to the new faith

4. Spreading the good news: how and why Christianity expanded

5. Archaeology and earliest Christianity: what archaeologist can - and cannot - illuminate

6. What the first Christians believed: the faith is defined

7. How the first Christians worshipped

Pt. 2. Acceptance and Conquest: AD 325-600

8. Constantine and the Christian Empire: Christianity recognized

9. Councils and Creeds: defining and defending the faith

10. Buildings and belief: early church structures

11. Worship and the Christian year: the making of the Christian calendar

12. Clergy, Bishops, and Pope: the church builds an organisation

13. The church in North Africa: the making of a distinctive tradition

14. The fall of the Roman Empire: how and why it came to an end

15. Ascetics and monks: the rise of Christian monasticism

Pt. 3. A Christian Society: AD 600-1500

16. The West in crisis

17. The Eastern church

18. Flowering: the Western church: reform and resurgence

19. Monasticism in the West

20. The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia

21. An age of unrest: the Western church in the late middle ages

Pt. 4. Reform and renewal: 1500-1650

22. Seeds of renewal: the origin of the Reformation

23. Reformation

24. A flood of bibles: scripture in the vernacular

25. The radical reformation: the Anabaptists

26. The Catholic Reformation

27. Art and the spirit: Christianity and its cultural expression

Pt. 5. Reason, revival, and revolution 1650-1789

28. Expansion worldwide: European missions

29. Awakening: the Evangelical revival and the great awakening

30. Reason and unreason: the rise of rationalism

31. The Russian church: 1500-1900

Pt. 6. Cities and Empires 1789-1914

32. Europe in revolt: church and state in the nineteenth century

33. The first industrial nation: the industrial revolution and the British churches

34. A crusade among equals: revivalism, abolition, and evangelism in the USA

35. A world come of age: science and philosophy challenge Christianity

36. Outposts of empire: the nineteenth-century missionary explosion

Pt. 7. A Century of Conflict 1914-2001

37. An age of ideology: nationalism, communism, and individualism take on Christianity

38. An age of anxiety: theological thinking in troubled era

39. Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement

40. The arts in the Christian West

41. Organizing for unity

42. An age of liberation

Pt. 8. Epilogue: A New Millennium

43. Present and future: the church in an ever-changing world.

Notes:

"Original edition published as A Lion handbook: The history of Christianity, 1977"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781506445960

1506445969

OCLC:

1035640128