TY - BOOK AU - Tim Dowley TI - Introduction to the history of Christianity SN - 9780800699697 U1 - 270 DOW PY - 2013/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press, KW - Church history Église Histoire church history N1 - 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 ER -