The History of Christianity in the light of modern knowledge
Subtitle: a collective work
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & co.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: N. Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 780
Subjects: Church history
Other titles: Christianity in the light of modern knowledge.
Notes: Bibliography at end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The world into which Christ was born. Chapter I. The extent and nature of the Roman empire at the birth of Christianity / by Thomas George Tucker.; title: Chapter II. The state religion of Rome at the time of Christ / by Cyril Bailey.; title: Chapter III. Religion and philosophy / by Gilbert Murray.; title: Chapter IV. Mystery religions / by Edwyn Robert Bevan.; title: Chapter V. Palestine in the time of Christ / by John Garstang.; title: Chapter VI. Judaism, the religion in which Christ was educated / by David Capell Simpson.; title: Chapter VII. The Bible as Christ knew it / by Frederick George Kenyon.; title: Part II. The life of Christ and the early records of it. Chapter I. John the Baptist / by James Moffatt.; title: Chapter II. The life of Jesus / by Francis Crawford Burkitt.; title: Chapter III. The earliest archaeological records / by Edward William Watson.; title: Chapter IV. The rise, language, and form of the New Testament writings / by George Milligan.; title: Chapter V. The Greek papyri and the New Testament / by George Milligan.; title: Chapter VI. The Apocryphal gospels / by Adam Fyfe Findlay.; title: Part III. The early Church. Chapter I. The theology of the New Testament / by Charles Anderson Scott.; title: Chapter II. The early missionaries and St. Paul / by Frederick John Foakes-Jackson.; title: Chapter III. The history of Christianity from the death of St. Paul to the reign of Constantine / by Charles Harold Dodd.; title: Part IV. From the fourth century to the end of the Reformation. Chapter I. History of the Church, 312-800 A.D. / by James Houston Baxter.; title: Chapter II. From the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire to the dawn of the Reformation / by Robert Sangster Rait.; title: Chapter III. The history of the Reformation, the Jesuits, and the Counter-Reformation / by Archibald Main.; title: Part V. After the Reformation. Chapter I. The English versions of the Bible / Frederick George Kenyon.; title: Chapter II. Seventeenth-century dissent : Jansenism and Puritanism / by David Ogg.; title: Chapter III. The eighteenth century / by Herbert Brook Workman.; title: Chapter IV. Christianity in the nineteenth century / by Clement Charles Julian Webb.; title: Chapter V. Christianity today : social and Christian ethics / by William Temple.