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Dr Tim Dowley
Consulting Editors
John H. Y. Briggs
Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage and Senior Research Fellow in Church History,
Oxford University, formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham, England
Dr Robert D. Linder
University Distinguished Professor of History,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
The late David F. Wright
Formerly Professor in Patristic and Reformed Christianity, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Second Edition
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ContentS
List of illustrations/photographs
Preface to the Revised Edition
1. Jesus: His life, ministry, death and its consequences
The Thought-world of Early Christianity
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 Exapnded
5. Archaeology and Earliest Christianity: What archaeologists can – and cannot – illuminate
6. What the First Christians Believed
Eusebius: ‘Father of Church History’
Justin Martyr: Christian apologist
7. How the First Christians Worshipped
How the New Testament Came Down to Us
The Early Church Recognizes the New Testament
PART 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
Patrick: Missionary to the Irish
John Chrysostom: master preacher
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
The Paulicians and the Bogomils
18. Flowering: the Western Church: Reform and resurgence
The Sacraments in Medieval Europe
Interpreting the Bible in the Middle Ages
20. The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe and Russia
21. An Age of Unrest: The Western Church in the Late Middle Ages
PART 4: Reform and Renewal: 1500-1650
22. Seeds of Renewal: The origins of the Reformation
Post-Reformation Church Architecture
24. A Flood of Bibles: Scripture in the vernacular
William Tyndale and the English Bible
25. The Radical Reformation: the Anabaptists
27. Art and the Spirit: Christianity and its cultural expression
PART 5: Reason, Revival, and Revolution 1650-1789
28. Expansion Worldwide: European missions
29. Awakening: The Evangelical Revival and the Great Awakening
Christianity and the Rise of Modern Science
30. Reason and Unreason: The rise of rationalism
The Reasonableness of Christianity
31. The Russian Church: 1500–1900
PART 6: Cities and Empires 1789-1914
32. Europe in Revolt: Church and State in teh Nineteenth Century
33. The First Industrial Nation: The Industrial Revolution and the British Churches
C. H. Spurgeon: ‘Prince of Preachers’
34. A Crusade Among Equals: REvivalism, Abolition, and Evangelism in the USA
Hymns and Church Music after 1800
35. A World Come of Age: Science and Philosophy challenge Christianity
36. Outposts of Empire: The nineteenth-century missionary explosion
PART 7: A Century of Conflict 1914-2001
37. An Age of Ideology: nationalism, Communism, and individualism take on Christianity
The Christian Church and the Jews
38. An Age of Anxiety: Theological thinking in troubled era
39. Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
40. The Arts in the Christian West
Part 8: Epilogue: A New Millennium
43. Present and Future: The church in an ever-changing world
Further Resources on the History of Christianity
Contributors
Dr John S. Andrews, formerly Sub-Librarian, University of Lancaster, England. Hymns and Church Music; Hymns and Church Music after 1800.
The late Canon James Atkinson, formerly Director of the Centre for Reformation Studies, University of Sheffield, England. Reformation; Thomas Cranmer.
Dr David W. Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling, Scotland. C. H. Spurgeon; William Carey; William Wilberforce.
The late Dr Paul M. Bechtel, formerly Professor Emeritus of English, Wheaton College, Illinois, USA. Blaise Pascal.
Dr Janette Bohi, formerly Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA. A Crusade among Equals.
John H. Y. Briggs, Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage and Senior Research Fellow in Church History, Oxford University, formerly Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham, England. The First English Baptists; The First Industrial Nation;
Present and Future.
Dr Colin Brown, Senior Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA. Anselm; Reason and Unreason; A World Come of Age; Friedrich Schleiermacher.
Revd Colin O. Buchanan, formerly Bishop of Woolwich, England. The Sacraments in Medieval Europe; Organizing for Unity.
Revd Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean, Kings College, London. Jesus
Dr Robert G. Clouse, Senior Research Scholar in Liberal Arts and Professor Emeritus of History, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Columba; Patrick; Boethius; Flowering: the Western Church;
Francis of Assisi; Thomas Aquinas; Savonarola; John of the Cross.
The late Revd Dr Leonard W. Cowie, formerly Senior Lecturer in History, Whitelands College, London. The First English Missions.
Dr James A. DeJong, President and Professor of Historical Theology, Emeritus, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Expansion Worldwide.
Dr Walter Delius, formerly Professor of Church History, Theological Faculty, Berlin, Germany. Alcuin.
Dr Bruce A. Demarest, formerly Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation, Denver Seminary, Denver, Colorado, USA. Jerome; Interpreting the Bible in the Middle Ages.
Dr Wayne A. Detzler, Academic Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies and Missions, Southern Evangelical Seminary, North Carolina, USA. Europe in Revolt; Pope Pius IX;
The Bible Societies.
Revd Dr John P. Donnelly, Professor Emeritus of History, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Gasparo Contarini; The Jesuits; Pope John XXIII.
Dr Tim Dowley, London. John Wyclif, John Bunyan, Karl Barth.
Dr James D. G. Dunn, Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham, England. Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement.
The late H. L. Ellison, Bible teacher and lecturer, England. The Christian Church and the Jews.
Dr Everett Ferguson, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA. Irenaeus; Origen; Tertullian;
Athanasius; John Chrysostom.
The late Dr Ronald C. Finucane, Distinguished Professor of History, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. Monasticism in the West; The Waldensians; An Age of Unrest.
Dr Harlie Kay Gallatin, Senior Professor Emeritus of History, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri, USA. The Eastern Church.
Dr W. Ward Gasque, President of Pacific Association for Biblical Studies, Seattle, USA. The Church Begins; Establishing Christianity
Daniel Guy, MA, Marlborough, England: Europe in Revolt
The late Dr Colin Hemer, formerly Research Fellow, Tyndale House, Cambridge, England. Archaeological and Earliest Christianity;
Justin Martyr.
The late Canon Michael M. Hennell, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester, England. The Evangelicals; The Oxford Movement; John Henry Newman.
Walter G. Hooper, Trustee and Literary Advisor to the Estate of C.S. Lewis.
C.S. Lewis.
Dr Thomas Howard, Emeritus Professor of English, St John’s Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA. The Arts in the Christian West.
Dr Larry W. Hurtado, Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. How the New Testament Came Down to Us.
Dr F. W. Kantzenbach, formerly Professor of History of the Church and Christian Doctrine, University of Saarland, Germany. Albert Schweitzer.
Dr Alan Kreider, formerly Professor of Church History and Mission, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Christians, War, and Peace; The Radical Reformation.
A. N. S. Lane, Professor of Historical Theology, London Bible College, England. A Flood of Bibles; William Tyndale and the English Bible.
Dr Robert D. Linder, University Distinguished Professor of History, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. Peter Abelard; The Catholic Reformation.
The late Dr Andreas Lindt, formerly Professor of Modern Church History, University of Berne, Switzerland. John Calvin.
The late Dr H. Dermot McDonald, formerly Vice-Principal and Senior Lecturer, History of Doctrine and Philosophy of Religion, London School of Theology. Marcion; Basil the Great; Nestorius; Cyril of Alexandria; William of Ockham.
Dr Philip M. J. McNair, formerly Serena Professor of Italian, University of Birmingham, England. Seeds of Renewal.
Dr Caroline T. Marshall, formerly Professor of History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Bernard of Clairvaux; Thomas Becket; Popular Religion; Jan Hus;
Teresa of Avila.
Dr Ralph P. Martin, formerly Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA. How the first Christians Worshipped.
Dr James R. Moore, Professor of the History of Science, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England. Christianity and the Rise of Modern Science; The Reasonableness of Christianity.
Dr James I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. The Faith of the Protestants; Ignatius of Loyola.
Dr C. René Padilla, President, Micah Network; Executive Director, Ediciones Kairos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Age of Liberation, Hélder Câmara.
Dr Pheme Perkins, Professor, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The Thought-world of Early Christianity
Dr Richard Pierard, formerly Scholar-in-Residence and Stephen Philips Professor of History, Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, USA. An Age of Ideology; Billy Graham.
Arthur O. Roberts, Professor-at-large, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, USA. George Fox and the Quakers.
Revd Dr Wesley A. Roberts, Pastor, Peoples Baptist Church of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The late Dr Henderik ‘Hans’ R. Rookmaaker, first Professor of Art History, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Art and the Spirit.
The late Dr Harry Rosenberg, formerly Professor of History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. The West in Crisis; Gregory the Great; Pope Innocent III.
Dr Harold Rowdon, formerly Lecturer
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