The church from age to age : a history from Galilee to global Christianity / general editor, Edward A. Engelbrecht ; associate editor, Laura L. Lane ; [contributors] Robert G. Clouse ... [et al.] ; foreward by Paul L. Maier.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 918-951) and index.
Contents:
Christianity after World War II. Mission ; Worship ; Organization ; Teaching ; Church and society ; Church and state ; Readings from primary sources -- The church in a changing world : events and trends from 250 to 600. Church and society in a changing world ; Worship, devotion, and art ; Faith and teaching ; Structure, leadership, and service ; Monasticism, the new leaven ; Augustine, the great teacher of the West ; Asian and East African Christianity ; Readings from primary sources -- The church of the Middle Ages : growth and change from 600 to 1400. The conversion of Europe ; The church in feudal society ; Teaching ; Church and state ; East and West ; Dissent and reform ; Readings from primary sources -- The church of the Renaissance and Reformation : decline and reform from 1300 to 1600. The changing scene : feudalism and the papacy ; Martin Luther ; Lutheranism ; Zwingli and the Radical Reformation ; John Calvin ; The English and Scottish Reformations ; The Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation ; The church in the seventeenth century ; Readings from primary sources -- The church in the age of orthodoxy and the Enlightenment : consolidation and challenge from 1600 to 1800. Politics and church conflicts ; Theology and culture in the age of orthodoxy ; The rise and character of Pietism ; Pietist theology and its influence on culture ; Enlightenment, revolution, and Christianity ; Readings from primary sources -- Christian churches in modern times : changes from 1800 to the First World War. The Roman Catholic Church in France after the Revolution ; Protestantism in Germany in the nineteenth century ; The churches in England ; Continental churches in nineteenth-century Europe : a survey from West to East ; Development of modern theology ; Christian churches in the Americas and Australia ; Asian and African expansion of Christianity -- The spread of global Christianity : mission and message from the World War era to the present. Twentieth-century movements ; Recent influential theologians ; Christianity after World War II.
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