History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453

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Orbis Books, Jan 1, 2001 - Religion - 512 pages
History of the World Christian Movement shows that from the beginning Christianity has been a world religion, informed and shaped through the interplay of gospel and culture church and world.
 

Contents

Foreword
List of Maps
The Jesus Movement
PART II
THE GREAT CHURCH TAKESSHAPE
The Conversion
Donatists and Catholics
The ArianNicene Controversy and the Making of Orthodoxy
The Making of Christendom in the West
Monasticism inthe West
Christianity in the East Roman Empire
Christian Expansion Northward
PARTVI NEW POLITICAL HORIZONS 1000 to 1453
Controversy andCrisis in Christendom 31 Christendom on Crusade in the Centuries Twelfth and Thirteenth
Egypt Nubia and Ethiopia
Western Christendom 13001450

NEW CHALLENGES NEW BEGINNINGS
The Christian Movement and the Islamic Caliphate1
The Christian Movement inAfricaandSpain 25 Expansion of the Christian Movementin India Central Asia

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