Introduction to the History of Christianity, Second Edition

Content: Section 1: God and history --
Time-chart: The Christian centuries --
I. God, time and history --
Josephus --
Bede --
Eusebius --
John Foxe --
Kenneth Latourette --
Time and progress --
Worship and the Christian year --
The church year --
Weighing up the evidence --
Christianity and the arts --
Fyodor Dostoevsky --
Leo Tolstoy --
Buildings and beliefs --
The rise of modern science --
Christians and war --
Section 2: Beginnings, 1-325 --
Time-chart: Beginnings --
I. The church expands: Jerusalem to Rome --
Map: The Roman world --
Peter --
Paul --
Maps: Christianity expands --
'Those Christians' --
Archaeological light on earliest Christianity --
Roman religion --
A puzzle --
The religion of the Romans --
Spreading the good news --
II. Challenge to faith --
Ignatius of Antioch --
Nero's spectacular massacre --
The Montanists --
Novatianists --
Perpetua --
Cyprian and North Africa --
Justin Martyr --
The Gnostics --
Maichaens --
Irenaeus --
III. What the first Christians believed --
Marcion --
Origen --
Tertullian --
How the first Christians worshipped --
The Passover --
Clement of Rome --
A service in second-century Rome --
Instructions for worship and leadership --
How the New Testament has come down to us --
Rescuing a manuscript --
Can the text be trusted? --
Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament Section 3: Acceptance and conquest , 325-600 --
Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest --
I. Constantine and the Christian empire --
Athanasius --
A hymn of Ambrose --
Ambrose of Milan --
Worship and the Christian year --
The Apostles' Creed --
Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places --
Building for worship --
Maps: Acceptance and conquest --
II. Councils and creeds --
Basil the Great --
The Nicene Creed --
Nestorius --
Cyril of Alexandria --
Leo the Great --
III. The Fall of the Roman Empire --
Ulfilas' Gothic Bible --
Clergy, bishops and pope --
Jerome --
John Chrysostom --
Columba --
The church in North Africa --
Augustine of Hippo --
Augustine describes his conversion --
The Donatists in North Africa --
IV. Christian ascetics and monks --
Patrick --
Life in Benedict's monastery --
Cassiodorus --
Section 4: A Christian society, 600-1500 --
Time-chart: A Christian society --
I. The West in crisis --
Boethius --
Gregory the Great --
Alcuin --
Map: The West under threat: eighth to tenth centuries --
II. The Eastern church --
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite --
The Paulicians and the Bogomils --
III. Flowering: The Western church --
Pope Innocent III --
'The moon and the sun' --
The sacraments are developed --
Bernard of Clairvaux --
A Cistercian hymn --
Francis of Assisi --
The rule of Francis --
The Crusades --
God's non-existence inconceivable --
Anselm --
Scholasticism --
Peter Abelard --
Thomas Becket --
Thomas Aquinas --
Cathedrals and their builders --
Major Gothic buildings --
Popular religion --
Interpreting the Bible --
Medieval monasticism in the West --
The monk's day --
A contented monk --
A discontented monk --
A medieval monastery --
How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built --
The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia --
Persecution and Inquisition --
The Cathars --
The Waldensians --
IV. An age of unrest --
Jan Hus --
Savonarola --
John Wyclif --
Wyclif's Bible --
William of Ockham Section 5: Reform, 1500=1650 --
I. Seeds of renewal --
The Imitation of Christ --
II. Reform --
Martin Luther --
A safe stronghold --
The faith of the Protestants --
Philip Melanchthon --
Martin Bucer --
Huldreich Zwingli --
John Calvin --
Theodore Beza --
Puritans and Separatists --
Thomas Cranmer --
John Bunyan --
A flood of Bibles --
William Tyndale and the English Bible --
The Anabaptists --
Early English Baptists --
III. The Catholic Reformation --
Gasparo Contarini --
Ignatius of Loyola --
The Jesuits --
Teresa of Avila --
John of the Cross --
Art and the spirit --
Section 6: Reason, revival and revolution, 1650-1789 --
I. Awakening --
Jonathan Edwards --
George Whitefield --
Philip Jacob Spener --
Howell Harris --
The Methodists --
John and Charles Wesley --
Hymns and church music --
The Russian church --
II. Expansion world-wide --
The first English missions --
Map: Expansion world-wide --
Count von Zinzendorf --
III. Reason and unreason --
Blaise Pascal --
The reasonableness of Christianity --
George Fox and the Quakers --
The Unitarians Section 7: Cities and empires, 1789-1914 --
I. Europe in revolt --
Pope Pius IX --
II. The first industrial nation --
The Salvation Army --
Thomas Chalmers --
The Brethren --
The Oxford Movement --
Cardinal Newman --
C. H. Spurgeon --
God's grandeur --
The evangelicals --
Hymns and church music after 1800 --
A crusade among equals --
D. L. Moody --
III. A world come of age --
Friedrich Schleiermacher --
IV. Outposts of empire --
Map: World empires 1914 --
William Wilberforce --
David Livingstone --
Samuel Adjai Crowther --
Societies for mission --
William Carey --
Hudson Taylor --
The Bible societies --
Section 8: Present and future --
Time-chart: The modern world --
I. An age of ideology --
The Christian church and the Jews --
Martin Luther King --
II. An age of anxiety --
Albert Schweitzer --
Dietrich Bonhoeffer --
C. S. Lewis --
How many theologies? --
III. An age of liberation --
Toyohiko Kagawa --
Billy Graham --
Helder Camara --
Alexander Solzhenitsyn --
Pope John XXIII --
Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement --
African independent churches --
Organizing for unity --
IV. Present and future.