Title: Ye are the body; a people's history of the church.
Authors: Spencer, Bonnell
Publisher: Holy Cross Press
Year: 1950
Subjects: Church history.
Contents: I. The origin of the Christian church -- A. What is the church? -- B. The founding of the church -- 1. The pre-Christian church -- 2. The Jewish rejection of Christ -- 3. The call and training of the apostles -- 4. The equipment of the apostles -- II. The apostolic church -- A. The Jewish Christian church -- 1. The church at Jerusalem -- 2. The martyrdom of St. Stephen -- 3. Missions from Jerusalem -- 4. The Palestinian Jewish church -- B. The mission of the Gentiles -- 1. The conversion of St. Paul -- 2. The apostolic council, c. 50 A.D. -- 3. St. Paul the missionary -- 4. The end of the apostolic age -- III. The age of persecution -- A. The persecutions -- 1. The causes of the persecutions -- 2. The great persecutions -- 3. The spirit of martyrdom -- 4. The end of the persecutions -- B. The achievements of the early church -- 1. The early Eucharist -- 2. The threefold ministry -- 3. The New Testament -- 4. Discipline -- 5. The beginnings of Monasticism -- C. The beginnings of theology -- 1. Gnosticism -- 2. The Western fathers -- 3. The Eastern fathers -- 4. The doctrine of the trinity -- IV. The age of the councils -- A. Arianism -- 1. Arius and his teaching -- 2. The council of Nicaea I, 325 A.D. -- 3. The revival of Arianism -- 4. St. Athanasius against the world -- 5. The triumph of the Nicene faith -- B. The church in the West -- 1. St. Martin of Tours (319-397) -- 2. St. Ambrose (340-397) and St. Augustine (354-430) -- 3. Pelagianism -- C. The church in the east -- 1. St. Jerome (340-420) and St. John Chrysostom (347-407) -- 2. Nestorianism -- 3. Monophysitism -- 4. Caesaro-papalism