History of the world Christian movement /Dale T. Irvin, Scott W. Sunquist.
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, (c)2001-]
- volume <1- > : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
1. Christian Beginnings in America 10. The Caribbean and South America 11. North America 12. Europe in Seventeenth Century 13. Orthodox Churches and Christian Identity 14. Africa in the Eighteenth Century 15. The Eighteenth Century in Europe 16. The Orthodox World in the Eighteenth Century 17. Christianity in East and Southeast Asia amid Colonial Conflicts 18. South America and the Caribbean in an Age of Revolution 19. North America Undergoes Awakening and Revolution 2. African Christianity in the Sixteenth Century 3. Christianity Re-encounters Asia 4. Europe in an Age of Reform 5. Orthodoxy amid the Empires 6. World Christianity at the End of the Sixteenth Century 7. Eastern Asia in the Seventeenth Century 8. South Asia in the Seventeenth Century 9. African Christian Kingdoms Part I: 1454-1600: Two Major Transformations Part II: The Seventeenth Century: Global Religious and Secular Encounters Part III: The Eighteenth Century: Independence, Liberation, Awakenings
A changing Europe steps onto a global stage -- The humanists and European cultural transformation -- Francisco Ximenes de Cisneros and reforms in Spain -- Erasmus of Rotterdam and the broad current of humanist learning -- Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany -- Spread of the Lutheran reform beyond Saxony -- Ulrich Zwingli and the city of Zurich -- The first Anabaptists, the Swiss Brethren -- Wide diffusion of the Anabaptists -- John Calvin and the Geneva Reformation -- Spread of the Reformed faith -- Separation of the Church of England from Rome under Henry Virgin IslandsII -- Reform in Scotland -- Early Unitarians -- Catholic reforms led by religious orders -- Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits -- The Council of Trent and Catholic institutional reform -- The legacy of a turbulent century. Africa in the emerging global slave trade -- Central Africa -- Ethiopia -- East and southeast Africa. An overview -- Strengthening within Islam -- West Africa -- Abolitionism begins -- Southern Africa -- Ethiopia and East Africa. Ancient roots of Christianity in Africa -- West African culture and Portuguese incursions -- Africa, Christianity, and the slave trade -- Ethiopian Christianity. China and self-inflicted Christian wounds -- Korea -- Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand -- The Philippines -- The Dutch East Indies -- South Asia. Churches among empires -- Orthodox communities in the Balkans -- The Maronite Church in Lebanon -- Theological conflicts in the ecumenical patriarchate -- The Coptic Church and the Ottomans -- Armenian Christians between Russia and the Ottomans -- Kurds between Christians and Muslims -- The East Syrian Church continues to decline -- Orthodoxy in Russia and the Ukraine. Disputes over Roman Catholic and St. Thomas rites -- Christian witness in the Mughul empire -- Roberto de Nobili and Christian adaptation in Hindu Madurai. Islamic empires -- Christians under Ottoman rule -- The Coptic Church in Egypt -- Christians under Safavid Persian rule -- The Russian Orthodox Church -- The Ukranian Church on the borderlands. Protestant confessional formations in Europe -- Roman Catholic reform and development -- Orthodoxy and the Ottoman empire -- Conflicts in world Christianity beyond Europe. Rationalism and science -- Wars of religion and European alignment -- Roman Catholic reforms and internal tensions -- Three important movements within Protestantism -- Developments in German Lutheranism -- Developments in Reformed Churches in continental Europe -- Anabaptists -- Reformed ferment and civil war in England -- The Quakers -- Baptists and the emergence of the Free Church ideal -- Religious toleration in England. Revivals and awakening in the North American context -- Africans develop a distinct form of Christianity -- Missions to Native Americans in the eastern colonies -- Missions to Native Americans in the West -- The War of Independence -- Freedom of religion in the new nation -- The varieties of religion in the early United States -- Forming new churches -- African American churches emerge -- Developments in Canada -- Russian Orthodox missions in the Northwest. Spanish and French Catholic beginnings in North America -- The Franciscan century in New Mexico -- The English in North America -- Colonies of Virginia, New Amsterdam, Maryland, and Pennsylvania -- Africans in North America. The Caribbean -- Slavery -- Brazil -- Spanish America -- Religious practices in America. The Caribbean -- South America -- Social upheavals. The doors of China swing open...and shut -- Jesuits enter the Middle Kingdom -- Controversy over adaptation of Christianity to Chinese culture -- Korean beginnings -- Christian twilight in Japan -- Vietnam -- Siam and Cambodia -- Catholics and Reformed in the East Indies -- Spain and Catholic religion in the Philippines. The European Enlightenment -- Renewal of Catholic life and worship -- The Jansenist controversy -- Developments in Protestant intellectual and spiritual life -- Pietism and the religion of the heart -- Wesleyan movement and evangelical revivalism -- Expansion of "Free" Churches -- Development in church music -- Impact of the Industrial Revolution on European religious life -- The French Revolution creates a new world for Christianity. The preconquest era -- The conquest begins -- Subduing the Aztecs -- Conquering the Incas -- Colonization of Brazil -- Requerimiento, encomienda, and conquistadors -- Defending the rights of indigenous peoples -- Characteristics of Christian life in sixteenth-century America -- Women in Catholic America -- Beginnings of the transformation of Christianity in America. The Russian Orthodox Church and the tsars -- Orthodoxy under the Ottomans in the Balkans and west Asia -- Coptic Church in the eighteenth century -- Armenian Christianity in the eighteenth century -- Syrian Orthodoxy in Persia -- Islam and Christianity. Western Christianity comes to Asia -- St. Thomas Churches and Indian Christianity -- Arrival of the Portuguese -- Francis Xavier and the Jesuits -- Christian beginnings in Japan -- Christianity reaches the Philippines -- Europeans in the East Indies and Indochina. volume 1. Earliest Christianity to 1453.