Church History: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context: Vol.1
- 02
- Grand Rapids, Michigan Zondervan Academic 2013
- 544p
1. The Setting for the Story's Beginning 2. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church. 3. The Subapostolic Age 4. The Church and the Empire 5. Heresies and Schisms in the Second Century 6. The Defense against Rival Interpretations 7. The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems 8. Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries. 9. Development of the Church during the Third Century 10. Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century. 11. The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature. 12. Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship: The Church in the Fourth Century 13. Christological Controversies to Chalcedon (451) 14. Augustine. Pelagius, and Semipelagianism... 15. Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy. 16. Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 17. The Eastern Churches from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries 18. The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries 19. Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries 20. The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade 21. Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism