A History of the Church: From Pentecost to the Present

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College Press, 1991 - Religion - 190 pages
Church 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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