History of the Christian Church

Intro
 Preface
 Preface to the Third Edition
 Revisers' Preface
 Period I
 From The Beginnings to the Gnostic Crisis
 1. The General Situation
 2. The Jewish Background
 3. Jesus and the Disciples
 4. The Early Christian Community
 5. Paul and Gentile Christianity
 6. The Close of the Apostolic Age
 7. The Interpretation of Jesus
 8. Gentile Christianity of the Second Century
 9. Christian Organization
 10. Christianity and the Roman Government
 11. The Apologists
 Period II
 From The Gnostic Crisis to Constantine
 1. Gnosticism
 2. Marcion
 3. Montanism
 4. The Catholic Church 5. The Growing Importance of the Roman Church6. Irenaeus of Lyon
 7. Tertullian and Cyprian
 8. The Logos Theology and Monarchianism
 9. The Alexandrian School
 10. Church and Roman Society from 180 to 260
 11. The Constitutional Development of the Church
 12. Public Worship and Sacred Time
 13. Baptism
 14. The Eucharist
 15. Forgiveness of Sins
 16. Patterns of Christian Life
 17. Rest and Growth
 18. Rival Religious Forces
 19. The Final Struggle
 Period III
 The Imperial State Church
 1. The Changed Situation
 2. The Arian Controversy to the Death of Constantine 3. Controversy under Constantine's Sons4. The Later Nicene Struggle
 5. The Germanic Invasions
 6. The Growth of the Papacy
 7. Monasticism
 8. Ambrose and Chrysostom
 9. The Christological Controversies
 10. The East Divided
 11. Controversy and Catastrophe in the East
 12. The Constitutional Development of the Church
 13. Worship and Piety
 14. The Latin Christian Tradition
 15. Jerome
 16. Augustine of Hippo
 17. The Pelagian Controversy
 18. Semi-Pelagianism
 19. Gregory the Great
 Period IV
 The Middle Ages to the Close of the Investiture Controversy
 1. Missions in the British Isles 2. Christianity and the Frankish Kingdom3. East and West in the Iconoclastic Controversy
 4. The Franks and the Papacy
 5. Charles the Great
 6. European Christianity in the Ninth Century
 7. The Papacy and the Ottoman Empire
 8. The Greek Church after the Iconoclastic Controversy
 9. Christian Expansion in the Early Middle Ages
 10. The Reforming Papacy
 11. From Reform to Revolution
 12. Hildebrand and Henry IV
 13. The End of the Investiture Struggle
 Period V
 The Later Middle Ages
 1. The Crusades
 2. New Religious Movements
 3. Medieval Heresy-The Cathars and Waldenses
 the Inquisition 4. The Dominicans, Franciscans, and Other Mendicant Orders5. Early Scholasticism
 Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard
 6. The Rediscovery of Aristotle
 the Rise of the Universities
 7. High Scholasticism and Its Theology
 Thomas Aquinas
 8. Late Scholasticism
 Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
 9. Mysticism, the Modern Devotion, and Heresy
 10. Missions and Defeats
 11. The Papacy at Its Height and Its Decline
 12. The Avignon Papacy
 Papal Critics and Defenders
 the Great Schism
 13. Wyclif and Hus
 14. The Reforming Councils
 15. The Italian Renaissance and Its Popes