Church history
Subtitle: The rise and growth of the church in its cultural, intellectual, and political context: from Christ to the pre-Reformation
By: Everett Ferguson
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780310516569
Copyright date: 2013
Table of contents: title: 1. The setting for the story's beginning; title: 2. Jesus and the beginnings of the Church; title: 3. The Subapostolic Age; title: 4. The Church and the Empire; title: 5. Heresies and schisms in the second century; title: 6. The defense against rival interpretations; title: 7. The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and their problems; title: 8. Church life in the second and third centuries; title: 9. Development of the Church during the third century; title: 10. Diocletian and Constantine : on the threshold of the fourth century; title: 11. The Church in the fourth century : doctrine, organization, and literature; title: 12. Monasticism, expansion, life, and worship : the Church in the fourth century; title: 13. Christological controversies to Chalcedon (451); title: 14. Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism; title: 15. Transitions to the Middle Ages : Germanic migrations, doctrinal developments, and the papacy; title: 16. Eastern and Western Churches in the fifth and sixth centuries; title: 17. The Eastern Churches from the seventh to eleventh centuries; title: 18. The Western Church from the seventh to ninth centuries; title: 19. Decline and renewal of vitality in the West : the ninth to the eleventh centuries; title: 20. The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade; title: 21. Intellectual revival : the rise of Scholasticism; title: 22. Monastic, literary, political, and cultural activities in the twelfth century; title: 23. The glory of the Western Medieval Church : the thirteenth century; title: 24. Portents of decline; title: General bibliography; title: Timeline from Christ to Pre-Reformation