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Introduction to the History of Christianity : Third Edition /
Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content, particularly in the section covering most recent Christian history. The inviting full-color format includes many new images and updated maps, while maintaining many of the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis [Minnesota] :
Fortress Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. 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
- part two. 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
- part three. 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
- part four. 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
- part five. 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
- part six. 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
- part seven. 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
- part eight. Epilogue: a new millennium
- 43. Present and future: the church in an ever-changing world.