TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Williston TI - A history of the Christian church SN - 9780024238702 AV - BR146 PY - 1985/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Church history N1 - Bibliography: pages 711-731; 4; 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; 2; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests ER -