The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith
by David Bentley Hart Author
(From Amazon): A distinguished theologian presents a beautifully illustrated history of 2,000 years of the Christian faithPresented in 50 short chapters, each focusing on a critical facet of Christian history or theology, and each amplified by timelines, quotations, and color images, this magisterial account does full justice to the range of Christian tradition, belief, and practice—Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, Evangelical, Coptic, Chaldean, Ethiopian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Malankaran, to name but a few of the many possibilities. From the persecutions of the early church to the papal–imperial conflicts of the Middle Ages, from the religious wars of 16th- and 17th- century Europe to the challenges of science and secularism in the modern era, and from the ancient Christian communities of Africa and Asia to the "house churches" of contemporary China, this sequence of essays focusing on critical "moments" in the religion triumphantly captures the heterogeneous richness of Christian history.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780857383426
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 51
- Pages
- 256
- Suggested Grades
- 5th - 9th
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Copyright
- 2012
Chapters
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Abiding Glory: The People of Israel
- 3 Jesus Christ, born of the Jews
- 4 The Death of the Messiah
- 5 The Easter Proclamation
- 6 The Church of the Apostles
- 7 The Growth of the Early Church
- 8 The Age of the Martyrs
- 9 The Gnostics
- 10 Alexandria in the Early Church Christian centuries
- 11 Constantine the Great and the Birth of Christendom
- 12 Cities of the Desert: The rise of Monsticism
- 13 Christianity in Armenia and India
- 14 Ancient Splendour: Christianity in Ethiopia
- 15 One God in Three Persons: The Earliest Church Councils
- 16 The Age of the Fathers
- 17 The Fall of Rome and the Rise of Western Christendom
- 18 Western Monasticism and the Preservation of Western Learning
- 19 Christendom
- 20 The Formation of Orthodox Christology
- 21 The Last Epoch of the United Christian Empire
- 22 The 'Church of the East': The Nestorian Missions
- 23 A New Power in the World: The Rise of Islam
- 24 Charlemagne
- 25 The Face of God: The Iconoclast Controversy
- 26 Franks and Byzantines: The Widening Gulf
- 27 The Conversion of the Slavs
- 28 The Great Schism
- 29 The Early Crusades
- 30 Byzantine Zenith and Nadir
- 31 The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
- 32 The High Middle Ages
- 33 Reason and Superstition: Medieval Contradictions
- 34 The Oriental Churches in the Later Middle Ages
- 35 Byzantine Twilight
- 36 The Last Caesar
- 37 Renaissance Christian Thought
- 38 Spain and Its Inquisition
- 39 The Reformation Begins
- 40 The Growth of the Reformation
- 41 The Anabaptists and the Catholic Reformation
- 42 Schism and War: Early Modern Europe
- 43 Colonies and Missions
- 44 The Church and the Scientists
- 45 Deism, Enlightenment and Revolution
- 46 Eastern Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period
- 47 The 19th Century: A Time of Radical Doubt
- 48 The 19th Century: A Time of Fervent Faith
- 49 The 20th Century in America
- 50 The Most Violent Century in History
- 51 The 20th to the 21st Century: The Rise of a New Christendom
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