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A History of Christian Thought in One Volume

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon

1. The Cradle of Christianity

2. The Theology of the Apostolic Fathers

3. The Greek Apologists

4. The Early Heresies: Challenge and Response

5. The Great Theologians of the Early Church

6. Theology in the Third Century

7. The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea

8. The Theology Surrounding Nicea

9. The Christological Controversies

10. Apostolic or Apostate?

Part 2: Medieval Theology

11. The Theology of Augustine

12. Western Theology after Augustine

13. Eastern Theology between the Fourth and the Sixth Ecumenical Councils

14. The Carolingian Renaissance

15. The Twelfth Century: Darkness Dissipates

16. Eastern Theology after the Islamic Conquests

17. The Thirteenth Century

18. Theology in the Later Middle Ages

19. Dawn or Dusk?

Part 3: From the Reformation to the Present

20. The End of an Era

21. The Theology of Martin Luther

22. Ulrich Zwingli and the Beginning of the Reformed Tradition

23. Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation

24. The Reformed Theology of John Calvin

25. The English Reformation

26. Theology in the Catholic Reformation

27. Protestant Orthodoxy and Pietist Reaction

28. Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century

29. Roman Catholic Theology to the First World War

30. Eastern Theology after the Fall of Constantinople

31. Theology in the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First

A Final Overview