Church history in plain language

Church history in plain language /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shelley, Bruce L. (Bruce Leon), 1927-2010
Other Authors: Hatchett, Randy Lynn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, [2013]
Edition:Updated fourth edition.
Subjects:
Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • The age of Jesus and the apostles, 6 BC - AD 70
  • 1. Away with the King : the Jesus movement
  • 2. Wineskins : old and new : the gospel to the Gentiles
  • The age of catholic Christianity, 70 - 312
  • 3. Only worthless people : Catholic Christianity
  • 4. If the Tiber floods : the persecution of Christians
  • 5. Arguing about the event : the rise of orthodoxy
  • 6. The rule of books : the formation of the Bible
  • 7. The school for sinners : the power of bishops
  • 8. Apostles to intellectuals : the Alexandrians
  • The age of the Christian Roman empire, 312 - 590
  • 9. Laying her sceptre down : the conversion of the empire
  • 10. Splitting important hairs : the doctrine of the Trinity
  • 11. Emmanuel! : Christ in the creeds
  • 12. Exiles from life : the beginnings of monasticism
  • 13. The sage of the ages : Augustine
  • 14. Peter as 'pontifex maximus' : the beginnings of the papacy
  • 15. Somewhere between heaven and earth : Eastern Orthodoxy
  • 16. Bending the necks of victors : mission to the barbarians
  • The Christian Middle Ages, 590 - 1517
  • 17. God's consul : Gregory the Great
  • 18. The search for unity : Charlemagne and Christendom
  • 19. Lifted in a mystic manner : the papacy and the crusader
  • 20. The nectar of learning : scholasticism
  • 21. A song to Lady Poverty : the apostolic life-style
  • 22. Sleeping men and the law of necessity : the decline of the papacy
  • 23. Judgment in the process of time : Wyclif and Hus
  • The age of Reformation, 1517 - 1648
  • 24. A wild boar in the vineyard : Martin Luther and Protestantism
  • 25. Radical discipleship : The Anabaptists
  • 26. Thrust into the game : John Calvin
  • 27. The curse upon the crown : the Church of England
  • 28. 'Another man' at Manresa : the Catholic Reformation
  • 29. Opening the rock : America and Asia
  • 30. The rule of the saints : Puritanism
  • 31. Unwilling to die for an old idea : denominations
  • The age of reason and revival, 1648 - 1789
  • 32. Aiming at the foundations : the cult of reason
  • 33. The heart and its reasons : Pascal and the Pietists
  • 34. A brand from the burning : Wesley and Methodism
  • 35. A new order of the ages : the Great Awakening
  • The age of progress, 1789 - 1914
  • 36. The restoration of fortresses : Catholicism in the age of progress
  • 37. A new social frontier : nineteenth-century England
  • 38. To earth's remotest people : Protestant missions
  • 39. The destiny of a nation : a Christian America
  • 40. A bridge for intelligent moderns : Protestant liberalism
  • 41. Nothing to lose but chains : the social crisis
  • The age of ideologies, 1914-189
  • 42. Graffiti on a wall of shame : twentieth-century ideologies
  • 43. Rootless immigrants in a sick society : American Evangelicals
  • 44. New creeds for breakfast : the ecumenical movement
  • 45. The medicine of mercy : Roman Catholicism : Vatican II
  • The age of global expansion and relocation 1900 - 46. Christianity in the west : decline and reconstruction - 47. Shift to the global south : what is the "New Christianity"? - 48. Windows to the Christian world : places and persons of faith.

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