Christianity through the ages
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Harper chapel books,
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780060650117
Subjects: Church history
Description: Here is an attempt to tell in brief compass the history of Christianity. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. Both that spread and that rootage have been mounting in the past 150 years and especially in the present century. The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene. - Preface.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 310-311.
Table of contents: title: The cosmic setting as presented in the Christian scriptures; title: Pre-Christian history; title: The earthly life of him through whom Christianity began; title: The initial five centuries of Christianity.; title: Professed allegiance of the Roman world; title: Influence of that world; title: Birth of the Catholic Church; title: Definition of Christian beliefs; title: Deepening twilight, A.D. 500-950; title: Revival and involvement in medieval Europe, A.D. 950-1350; title: Geographic losses and spiritual decay : partly offset by fresh religious movements, A.D. 1350-1500; title: Revival, reform, and expansion, A.D. 1500-1750; title: The shock of augmented revolution, A.D. 1750-1815; title: The nineteenth century : mounting Western domination with economic, intellectual, and social revolutions, A.D. 1815-1914; title: Christianity, challenged and expanding : the half-century which followed, A.D. 1914; title: An attempt at an appraisal and forecast