A history of the Christian church / by Williston Walker and Richard A. Norris, David W. Lotz, Robert T. Handy. [print]

Period I. From the beginnings to the gnostic crisis. The general situation The Jewish background Jesus and the disciples The early Christian community Paul and Gentile Christianity The close of the apostolic age The interpretation of Jesus Gentile Christianity of the second century Christian organization Christianity and the Roman government The apologists Period II. From the gnostic crisis to Constantine. Gnosticism Marcion Montanism The Catholic Church The growing importance of the Roman Church Irenaeus of Lyon Tertullian and Cyprian The logos theology and monarchianism The Alexandrian school Church and Roman society from 180 to 260 The constitutional development of the church Public worship and sacred time Baptism The eucharist Forgiveness of sins Patterns of Christian life Rest and growth Rival religious forces The final struggle Period III. The imperial state church. The changed situation The Arian controversy to the death of Constantine Controversy under Constantine's sons The later Nicene struggle The Germanic invasions The growth of the papacy Monasticism Ambrose and Chrysostom The christological controversies The East divided Controversy and catastrophe in the East The constitutional development of the church Worship and piety The Latin Christian tradition Jerome Augustine of Hippo The Pelagian controversy Semi-Pelagianism Gregory the Great Period IV. The Middle Ages to the close of the investiture controversy. Missions in the British Isles Christianity and the Frankish kingdom East and West in the iconoclastic controversy The Franks and the papacy Charles the Great European Christianity in the ninth century The papacy and the Ottonian Empire The Greek Church after the iconoclastic controversy Christian expansion in the early Middle Ages The reforming papacy From reform to revolution Hildebrand and Henry IV The end of the investiture struggle --

Period V. The later Middle Ages. The Crusades New religious movements Medieval heresy : the Cathars and Waldenses; the Inquisition The Dominicans, Franciscans, and other mendicant orders Early scholasticism; Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard The rediscovery of Aristotle; the rise of the universities High scholasticism and its theology; Thomas Aquinas Late scholasticism; Duns Scotus and William of Ockham Mysticism, the modern devotion, and heresy Missions and defeats The papacy at its height and its decline The Avignon papacy; papal critics and defenders; the Great Schism Wyclif and Hus The reforming councils The Italian Renaissance and its popes; popular religious leaders The new national powers Humanism north of the Alps; piety on the eve of the Reformation Period Virgin Islands The Reformation. Luther's development and the beginnings of the Reformation Separations and divisions Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation The Anabaptists German Protestantism established The Scandinavian lands The Reformation in French Switzerland and Geneva before Calvin John Calvin The English Reformation The Scottish Reformation The Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation Confessional strife in France, the Netherlands, and England German religious controversies and the Thirty Years' War Socinianism Arminianism Anglicanism, Puritanism, and the Free Churches in England, Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in Scotland The Quakers Period Virgin IslandsI. Modern Christianity. The beginnings of modern science and philosophy The transplantation of Christianity to the Americas Deism and the its opponents; skepticism Unitarianism in England and America Pietism in Germany Zinzendorf and Moravianism The Evangelical revival in Great Britain; Wesley and Methodism The Great Awakening The impact of the Evangelical revival; the rise of modern missions The revolutionary epoch in the United States The German Enlightenment (Aufklarung) ; Trends in nineteenth-century Protestant thought in Germany British Protestantism in the nineteeth century Continental Protestantism in the nineteeth century American Protestantism in the nineteeth century Roman Catholicism in the modern world The Eastern Churches in modern times The growth of the ecumenical movement The church in the world.

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