Introduction to the history of Christianity

pt. 1. Beginnings AD 1-325
1. Jesus: his life, ministry, death and its consequences
2. The church begins: from Jerusalem to Rome
3. Establishing Christianity: challenges to the new faith
4. Spreading the good news: how and why Christianity expanded
5. Archaeology and earliest Christianity: what archaeologist can - and cannot - illuminate
6. What the first Christians believed: the faith is defined
7. How the first Christians worshipped
pt. 2. Acceptance and Conquest: AD 325-600
8. Constantine and the Christian Empire: Christianity recognized
9. Councils and Creeds: defining and defending the faith
10. Buildings and belief: early church structures
11. Worship and the Christian year: the making of the Christian calendar
12. Clergy, Bishops, and Pope: the church builds an organisation
13. The church in North Africa: the making of a distinctive tradition
14. The fall of the Roman Empire: how and why it came to an end
15. Ascetics and monks: the rise of Christian monasticism
pt. 3. A Christian Society: AD 600-1500
16. The West in crisis
17. The Eastern church
18. Flowering: the Western church: reform and resurgence
19. Monasticism in the West
20. The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia
21. An age of unrest: the Western church in the late middle ages
pt. 4. Reform and renewal: 1500-1650
22. Seeds of renewal: the origin of the Reformation
23. Reformation
24. A flood of bibles: scripture in the vernacular
25. The radical reformation: the Anabaptists
26. The Catholic Reformation
27. Art and the spirit: Christianity and its cultural expression
pt. 5. Reason, revival, and revolution 1650-1789
28. Expansion worldwide: European missions
29. Awakening: the Evangelical revival and the great awakening
30. Reason and unreason: the rise of rationalism
31. The Russian church: 1500-1900
pt. 6. Cities and Empires 1789-1914
32. Europe in revolt: church and state in the nineteenth century
33. The first industrial nation: the industrial revolution and the British churches
34. A crusade among equals: revivalism, abolition, and evangelism in the USA
35. A world come of age: science and philosophy challenge Christianity
36. Outposts of empire: the nineteenth-century missionary explosion
pt. 7. A Century of Conflict 1914-2001
37. An age of ideology: nationalism, communism, and individualism take on Christianity
38. An age of anxiety: theological thinking in troubled era
39. Pentecostalism and the charismatic movement
40. The arts in the Christian West
41. Organizing for unity
42. An age of liberation
pt. 8. Epilogue: A New Millennium
43. Present and future: the church in an ever-changing world