Titre :	Introduction to the history of Christianity
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Tim Dowley, Auteur
Mention d'édition :	1st ed.
Editeur :	Minneapolis : Fortress Press
Année de publication :	c1995
Importance :	688 p.
Présentation :	illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Format :	23 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-8006-2935-9
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Church history.
Index. décimale :	BR 150
Résumé :	The 2000-year history of Christianity is a dramatic, intriguing, and often surprising story, told here by more than sixty specialists from ten countries in the most popular one-volume illustrated reference book on church history ever published
Note de contenu :	Section 1: God and history -- Time-chart: The Christian centuries -- I. God, time and history -- Josephus -- Bede -- Eusebius -- John Foxe -- Kenneth Latourette -- Time and progress -- Worship and the Christian year -- The church year -- Weighing up the evidence -- Christianity and the arts -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Buildings and beliefs -- The rise of modern science -- Christians and war -- Section 2: Beginnings, 1-325 -- Time-chart: Beginnings -- I. The church expands: Jerusalem to Rome -- Map: The Roman world -- Peter -- Paul -- Maps: Christianity expands -- 'Those Christians' -- Archaeological light on earliest Christianity -- Roman religion -- A puzzle -- The religion of the Romans -- Spreading the good news -- II. Challenge to faith -- Ignatius of Antioch -- Nero's spectacular massacre -- The Montanists -- Novatianists -- Perpetua -- Cyprian and North Africa -- Justin Martyr -- The Gnostics -- Maichaens -- Irenaeus -- III. What the first Christians believed -- Marcion -- Origen -- Tertullian -- How the first Christians worshipped -- The Passover -- Clement of Rome -- A service in second-century Rome -- Instructions for worship and leadership -- How the New Testament has come down to us -- Rescuing a manuscript -- Can the text be trusted? -- Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament Section 3: Acceptance and conquest , 325-600 -- Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest -- I. Constantine and the Christian empire -- Athanasius -- A hymn of Ambrose -- Ambrose of Milan -- Worship and the Christian year -- The Apostles' Creed -- Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places -- Building for worship -- Maps: Acceptance and conquest -- II. Councils and creeds -- Basil the Great -- The Nicene Creed -- Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Leo the Great -- III. The Fall of the Roman Empire -- Ulfilas' Gothic Bible -- Clergy, bishops and pope -- Jerome -- John Chrysostom -- Columba -- The church in North Africa -- Augustine of Hippo -- Augustine describes his conversion -- The Donatists in North Africa -- IV. Christian ascetics and monks -- Patrick -- Life in Benedict's monastery -- Cassiodorus -- Section 4: A Christian society, 600-1500 -- Time-chart: A Christian society -- I. The West in crisis -- Boethius -- Gregory the Great -- Alcuin -- Map: The West under threat: eighth to tenth centuries -- II. The Eastern church -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite -- The Paulicians and the Bogomils -- III. Flowering: The Western church -- Pope Innocent III -- 'The moon and the sun' -- The sacraments are developed -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- A Cistercian hymn -- Francis of Assisi -- The rule of Francis -- The Crusades -- God's non-existence inconceivable -- Anselm -- Scholasticism -- Peter Abelard -- Thomas Becket -- Thomas Aquinas -- Cathedrals and their builders -- Major Gothic buildings -- Popular religion -- Interpreting the Bible -- Medieval monasticism in the West -- The monk's day -- A contented monk -- A discontented monk -- A medieval monastery -- How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built -- The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia -- Persecution and Inquisition -- The Cathars -- The Waldensians -- IV. An age of unrest -- Jan Hus -- Savonarola -- John Wyclif -- Wyclif's Bible -- William of Ockham Section 5: Reform, 1500=1650 -- I. Seeds of renewal -- The Imitation of Christ -- II. Reform -- Martin Luther -- A safe stronghold -- The faith of the Protestants -- Philip Melanchthon -- Martin Bucer -- Huldreich Zwingli -- John Calvin -- Theodore Beza -- Puritans and Separatists -- Thomas Cranmer -- John Bunyan -- A flood of Bibles -- William Tyndale and the English Bible -- The Anabaptists -- Early English Baptists -- III. The Catholic Reformation -- Gasparo Contarini -- Ignatius of Loyola -- The Jesuits -- Teresa of Avila -- John of the Cross -- Art and the spirit -- Section 6: Reason, revival and revolution, 1650-1789 -- I. Awakening -- Jonathan Edwards -- George Whitefield -- Philip Jacob Spener -- Howell Harris -- The Methodists -- John and Charles Wesley -- Hymns and church music -- The Russian church -- II. Expansion world-wide -- The first English missions -- Map: Expansion world-wide -- Count von Zinzendorf -- III. Reason and unreason -- Blaise Pascal -- The reasonableness of Christianity -- George Fox and the Quakers -- The Unitarians Section 7: Cities and empires, 1789-1914 -- I. Europe in revolt -- Pope Pius IX -- II. The first industrial nation -- The Salvation Army -- Thomas Chalmers -- The Brethren -- The Oxford Movement -- Cardinal Newman -- C. H. Spurgeon -- God's grandeur -- The evangelicals -- Hymns and church music after 1800 -- A crusade among equals -- D. L. Moody -- III. A world come of age -- Friedrich Schleiermacher -- IV. Outposts of empire -- Map: World empires 1914 -- William Wilberforce -- David Livingstone -- Samuel Adjai Crowther -- Societies for mission -- William Carey -- Hudson Taylor -- The Bible societies -- Section 8: Present and future -- Time-chart: The modern world -- I. An age of ideology -- The Christian church and the Jews -- Martin Luther King -- II. An age of anxiety -- Albert Schweitzer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- C. S. Lewis -- How many theologies? -- III. An age of liberation -- Toyohiko Kagawa -- Billy Graham -- Helder Camara -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Pope John XXIII -- Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement -- African independent churches -- Organizing for unity -- IV. Present and future.

Introduction to the history of Christianity [texte imprimé] / Tim Dowley, Auteur  . -  1st ed. . - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1995 . - 688 p. : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-8006-2935-9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Church history.
Index. décimale :	BR 150
Résumé :	The 2000-year history of Christianity is a dramatic, intriguing, and often surprising story, told here by more than sixty specialists from ten countries in the most popular one-volume illustrated reference book on church history ever published
Note de contenu :	Section 1: God and history -- Time-chart: The Christian centuries -- I. God, time and history -- Josephus -- Bede -- Eusebius -- John Foxe -- Kenneth Latourette -- Time and progress -- Worship and the Christian year -- The church year -- Weighing up the evidence -- Christianity and the arts -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Buildings and beliefs -- The rise of modern science -- Christians and war -- Section 2: Beginnings, 1-325 -- Time-chart: Beginnings -- I. The church expands: Jerusalem to Rome -- Map: The Roman world -- Peter -- Paul -- Maps: Christianity expands -- 'Those Christians' -- Archaeological light on earliest Christianity -- Roman religion -- A puzzle -- The religion of the Romans -- Spreading the good news -- II. Challenge to faith -- Ignatius of Antioch -- Nero's spectacular massacre -- The Montanists -- Novatianists -- Perpetua -- Cyprian and North Africa -- Justin Martyr -- The Gnostics -- Maichaens -- Irenaeus -- III. What the first Christians believed -- Marcion -- Origen -- Tertullian -- How the first Christians worshipped -- The Passover -- Clement of Rome -- A service in second-century Rome -- Instructions for worship and leadership -- How the New Testament has come down to us -- Rescuing a manuscript -- Can the text be trusted? -- Chart: The early church recognizes the New Testament Section 3: Acceptance and conquest , 325-600 -- Time-chart: Acceptance and conquest -- I. Constantine and the Christian empire -- Athanasius -- A hymn of Ambrose -- Ambrose of Milan -- Worship and the Christian year -- The Apostles' Creed -- Egeria's pilgrimage to the holy places -- Building for worship -- Maps: Acceptance and conquest -- II. Councils and creeds -- Basil the Great -- The Nicene Creed -- Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Leo the Great -- III. The Fall of the Roman Empire -- Ulfilas' Gothic Bible -- Clergy, bishops and pope -- Jerome -- John Chrysostom -- Columba -- The church in North Africa -- Augustine of Hippo -- Augustine describes his conversion -- The Donatists in North Africa -- IV. Christian ascetics and monks -- Patrick -- Life in Benedict's monastery -- Cassiodorus -- Section 4: A Christian society, 600-1500 -- Time-chart: A Christian society -- I. The West in crisis -- Boethius -- Gregory the Great -- Alcuin -- Map: The West under threat: eighth to tenth centuries -- II. The Eastern church -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite -- The Paulicians and the Bogomils -- III. Flowering: The Western church -- Pope Innocent III -- 'The moon and the sun' -- The sacraments are developed -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- A Cistercian hymn -- Francis of Assisi -- The rule of Francis -- The Crusades -- God's non-existence inconceivable -- Anselm -- Scholasticism -- Peter Abelard -- Thomas Becket -- Thomas Aquinas -- Cathedrals and their builders -- Major Gothic buildings -- Popular religion -- Interpreting the Bible -- Medieval monasticism in the West -- The monk's day -- A contented monk -- A discontented monk -- A medieval monastery -- How the Abbey of Clairvaux was built -- The Orthodox church in Eastern Europe and Russia -- Persecution and Inquisition -- The Cathars -- The Waldensians -- IV. An age of unrest -- Jan Hus -- Savonarola -- John Wyclif -- Wyclif's Bible -- William of Ockham Section 5: Reform, 1500=1650 -- I. Seeds of renewal -- The Imitation of Christ -- II. Reform -- Martin Luther -- A safe stronghold -- The faith of the Protestants -- Philip Melanchthon -- Martin Bucer -- Huldreich Zwingli -- John Calvin -- Theodore Beza -- Puritans and Separatists -- Thomas Cranmer -- John Bunyan -- A flood of Bibles -- William Tyndale and the English Bible -- The Anabaptists -- Early English Baptists -- III. The Catholic Reformation -- Gasparo Contarini -- Ignatius of Loyola -- The Jesuits -- Teresa of Avila -- John of the Cross -- Art and the spirit -- Section 6: Reason, revival and revolution, 1650-1789 -- I. Awakening -- Jonathan Edwards -- George Whitefield -- Philip Jacob Spener -- Howell Harris -- The Methodists -- John and Charles Wesley -- Hymns and church music -- The Russian church -- II. Expansion world-wide -- The first English missions -- Map: Expansion world-wide -- Count von Zinzendorf -- III. Reason and unreason -- Blaise Pascal -- The reasonableness of Christianity -- George Fox and the Quakers -- The Unitarians Section 7: Cities and empires, 1789-1914 -- I. Europe in revolt -- Pope Pius IX -- II. The first industrial nation -- The Salvation Army -- Thomas Chalmers -- The Brethren -- The Oxford Movement -- Cardinal Newman -- C. H. Spurgeon -- God's grandeur -- The evangelicals -- Hymns and church music after 1800 -- A crusade among equals -- D. L. Moody -- III. A world come of age -- Friedrich Schleiermacher -- IV. Outposts of empire -- Map: World empires 1914 -- William Wilberforce -- David Livingstone -- Samuel Adjai Crowther -- Societies for mission -- William Carey -- Hudson Taylor -- The Bible societies -- Section 8: Present and future -- Time-chart: The modern world -- I. An age of ideology -- The Christian church and the Jews -- Martin Luther King -- II. An age of anxiety -- Albert Schweitzer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- C. S. Lewis -- How many theologies? -- III. An age of liberation -- Toyohiko Kagawa -- Billy Graham -- Helder Camara -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Pope John XXIII -- Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement -- African independent churches -- Organizing for unity -- IV. Present and future.