Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to the history of Christianity / organizing editor, Tim Dowley ; consulting editors, John H.Y. Briggs, Robert Linder, David F. Wright.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Briggs, John H. Y.
• Dowley, Tim
• Linder, Robert Dean
• Wright, David F.

Description

688 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 22 cm.

Summary

FCB LOCAL 12-20-2004 $34.95.

Uniform Title

History of Christianity.

Alternative Title

History of Christianity

Subject

• Church history > Charts, diagrams, etc
• Church history

Note

• Rev. ed of: The history of Christianity. 1990.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

God and history -- God, time and history -- -- Beginnings -- The Church expands: Jerusalem to Rome -- The challenge to faith -- What the first Christians believed -- -- Acceptance and conquest -- Constantine and the Christian empire -- Councils and creeds -- The fall of the Roman empire -- Christian ascetics and monks -- -- A Christian society -- The west in crisis -- The eastern church -- Flowering: the western church -- An age of unrest -- -- Reform -- Seeds of renewal -- reform -- The Catholic reformation -- -- Reason, revival and revolution -- Awakening -- Expansion world-wide -- Reason and unreason -- -- Cities and empires -- Europe in revolt -- The first industrial nation -- A world come of age -- Outposts of empire -- -- Present and future -- An age of ideology -- An age of anxiety -- An age of liberation -- Present and future.

ISBN

0800634969

OCLC

• 50435827
• SCSB-12511054

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library