Volume One
From Christ to Pre-Reformation
The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Everett Ferguson
Church History Volume 1: From Christ to Pre-Reformation
Copyright © 2005 by Everett Ferguson
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Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ferguson, Everett, 1933–
Church history / Everett Ferguson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-10: 0-310-20580-8 (v. 1)
ISBN-13: 978-0-310-20580-7 (v. 1)
1. Church history—Textbooks. I. Title.
BR145.3.F47 2004
270—dc22
2004020348
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To the students who will use this textbook. May they enter into the adventure of the life of the church as they extend its history into the days ahead.
Church History Volume Two: Reformation to the Present by John D. Woodbridge and Frank James III is forthcoming.
Maps, Charts, and Illustrations
1. The Setting for the Story’s Beginning
2. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church
5. Heresies and Schisms in the Second Century
6. The Defense against Rival Interpretations
7. The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems
8. Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries
9. Development of the Church during the Third Century
10. Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century
11. The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature
12. The Church in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries: Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship
13. Christological Controversies to Chalcedon (451)
14. Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism
15. Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy
16. Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
17. The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries
18. The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries
19. Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
20. The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade
21. Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism
22. Monastic, Literary, Cultural, and Political Activities in the Twelfth Century
23. The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century
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About Church History, Volume 1: From Christ to Pre-ReformationChurch History offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed. It did so not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Church History looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church. Volume one explores the development of the church from the days of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it offers overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds; insights into the church’s relationship to the Roman Empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes toward Christians; the place of art and architecture, literature, and philosophy, both sacred and secular; and much more, spanning the time from the first through the thirteenth centuries. |
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