TY - BOOK AU - Irvin,Dale T. AU - Sunquist,Scott W. TI - History of the world Christian movement SN - 9781608332434 AV - BR145.3.I785.H578 2001 PY - 2001///] CY - Maryknoll, New York PB - Orbis Books KW - Church history KW - Christianity KW - History KW - Église KW - Histoire KW - Christianisme KW - church history KW - aat KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Church KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - History of Global Christianity I KW - HIS4221-01/HIS6221-01 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part one. Into all the world: beginnings of the world Christian movement. The civilizations and cultures of the world -- Judaism at the time of Jesus -- Christina beginnings: the Jesus movement; Part two. Diverse trajectories of the early Christian movement. Apostolic memory in several gospels -- The early Christian movement in Syria and Mesopotamia -- In Greece and Asia Minor -- In the Western Mediterranean -- In Alexandria and Egypt -- "Every foreign land."; Part three. The Great Church takes shape. The Great Church emerges -- Gnostics, Catholics, and Manicheans -- Christians, Jews, and Israel's heritage of monotheism -- Spiritual currents and social life across cultures; Part four. The age of the imperial church: affirmations and dissent (c.300 to c.600). The conversion of Constantine and the making of an imperial church -- Donatists and Catholics: a struggle over holiness and unity in Roman North Africa -- The Arian-Nicene controversy and the making of Orthodoxy -- The road to Chalcedon and christological diversity -- The Christian movement in the East: Syria and the emergence of a Persian National Church -- Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia -- Roman and Latin churches in the West -- The age of Justinian and Theodora in the Eastern Roman Empire; Part five. New challenges, new beginnings, 600 to 1000. The land of Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, and the rise of Islam -- The Christian movement and the Islamic Caliphate: Syria and Persia -- The Christian movement in Africa and Spain -- Expansion of the Christian movement in India, Central Asia, and China -- The making of Christendom in the West -- Monasticism in the West -- Christianity in the East Roman Empire -- Christian expansion northward; Part six. new political horizon, 1000 to 1453. Controversy and crisis in Christendom -- Christendom and crusade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Spiritual renewal in Western Christendom, 1100-1300 -- Intellectual renewal in Western Christendom, 1100-1300 -- Byzantium in the thirteenth century -- Christianity in Asia under the Mongols -- Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia -- Western Christendom, 1300-1450 -- The Christian movement in the East until 1453; 1 N2 - Traces the development of Christianity from its origins up to the mid-fifteenth century. In place of conventional Eurocentric treatments, this work assigns a rightful place to the peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Near East in the unfolding of Christianity, a religion constantly evolving in dialogue with new cultures, new questions, and new historical influences. --From publisher description UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1880828 ER -