A History of the Church: From Pentecost to the PresentChurch history books must choose either brevity or thoroughness. A History of the Church does an excellent job combining both. Although it has been used as a college textbook, it also has been used successfully in local churches and personal study of church history as well. |
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Contents
The Apostolic Church | 25 |
The Church Under Persecution | 33 |
Developing Structure in the Church | 49 |
The Triumph of the Early Church | 71 |
Theological Difficulties in the Early Church | 91 |
The Rise of Monasticism | 117 |
The Shift to a Germanized Europe | 129 |
The Rise of Islam 7 11 33 49 71 | 159 |
Rise and Disappointment | 293 |
The Renaissance Papacy | 313 |
Luther and the Protestant Revolt | 331 |
Protestantism in the British Isles | 359 |
The Catholic Counter Reformation and the Thirty Years | 385 |
Revival and Rationalism | 405 |
Revolution Romanticism and Reaction | 427 |
The Eastern Churches Since the Reformation | 455 |
The Franks and the Holy Roman Empire | 177 |
The Medieval Papacy | 197 |
The Eastern Churches | 221 |
The Age of the Crusades | 235 |
Renewed Monastic Vigor | 257 |
The Avignon Papacy | 275 |
Religion in Early America | 473 |
Missionary Expansion in the Modern World | 497 |
Religion in Modern America 517 | 533 |
The Age of Ecumenicity | 543 |
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