Eerdman's handbook to the history of Christianity /organizing editor, Tim Dowley ; consulting editors, John H. Y. Briggs, Robert D. Linder, David F. Wright. 

 - first American edition. 
 - Grand Rapids :  Eerdmans,  (c)1977. 
 - xxiv, 656 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/> God and history  --  God, time and history  Beginnings, 1-325  --  The church expands  What the first Christians believed  Acceptance and conquest, 325-600  --  Constantine and the Christian empire  Councils and creeds  The fall of the Roman empire  Christian ascetics and monks  A Christian society, 600-1500  --  The West in crisis  The Eastern church  Flowering : the Western church  An age of unrest  Reform, 1500-1650  --  Seeds of renewal  Reform  Rome responds  Reason, revival and revolution, 1650-1789  --  Awakening  Expansion worldwide  Reason and unreason  Cities and empires, 1789-1914  --  Europe in revolt  The first industrial nation  The ascent of man  Outposts of empire  Towards 2000  --  An age of ideology  An age of anxiety  An age of liberation  John Briggs --  W. Ward Gasque  --  David F. Wright --  Richard Todd  --  David Wright  --  Richard Todd  --  Michael Smith --  Harry Rosenberg  --  Harlie Gallatin  --  Robert Clouse  --  Ronald Finucane --  Philip McNair  --  James Atkinson  --  Robert Linder --  A. Skevington Wood  --  James De Jong  --  Colin Brown --  Wayne Detzler  --  John Briggs  --  Colin Brown  --  Andrew Walls --  Richard Pierard  --  Anthony Thiselton  --  C. Rene Padilla. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77005616 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR146  / .E373 1977 BR146