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Tables of Contents for A World History of Christianity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of maps
x
Preface
xi
The contributors
xiii
Introduction
1
6
Adrian Hastings
The emergence of Christianity
7
18
Martin Goodman
Judaism, the Roman Empire and Jesus
7
9
The emergence of the Church
16
9
150--550
25
41
Adrian Hastings
The second and third centuries
25
10
Constantine and an imperial Church
35
8
The monastic movement
43
3
Dogma and theology in the fourth and fifth centuries
46
12
Missionary expansion and political distintegration: surpassing the empire
58
8
The Orthodox Church in Byzantium
66
44
Mary Cunningham
The sixth century: the revival of the Christian Roman Empire
68
6
The seventh century and Monothelitism
74
3
The Iconoclast Controversy (726--843)
77
4
The revival of monasticism and the patriarchate of Photios
81
1
Ninth-century missions to the Slavs and the emergence of the Slavic Churches
82
4
The tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries
86
8
The first four Crusades (1097-1204)
94
3
The period of Latin occupation, 1204-61
97
2
The Slavic Churches in the last centuries of Byzantium
99
2
The Palaeologan period, 1261-1453
101
4
Conclusion
105
5
The medieval West
110
37
Benedicta Ward
G. R. Evans
The medieval idea of the Church
110
1
Spreading Christianity through northern Europe
111
8
The Bible and the Church
119
3
Church and state and papal authority
122
3
The Church and the individual: sanctity, feasts and sacraments
125
6
Religious life, prayer and mysticism
131
6
The Church and war
137
2
Education and theology
139
2
Reform and revolution
141
6
India
147
45
R. E. Frykenberg
Early arrivals: the Thomas and Eastern Christians
148
9
Responses to the Padroado and Propaganda Fide
157
15
Evangelical and Enlightenment impulses
172
7
Challenges under the Raj
179
9
The continent since 1947
188
4
Africa
192
46
Kevin Ward
Egypt, North Africa, Nubia and Islam
193
4
Ethiopia
197
3
The kingdom of Kongo and the Portuguese missionary enterprise
200
3
The revival of mission in the nineteenth century
203
13
West Africa
203
6
South Africa
209
4
Eastern Africa
213
3
Colonial and missionary scrambles
216
2
Christianity in colonial times: education and `adaptation'
218
3
The rise of independent Churches
221
2
Other movements of spiritual renewal
223
3
Decolonialization
226
2
Christianity and the politics of independent Africa
228
3
African theology
231
2
Conclusion
233
5
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
238
44
Andrew Pettegree
The pre-Reformation Church
238
5
Luther and Germany
243
5
The Reformation outside Germany
248
9
Calvinism and religious warfare in the second half of the sixteenth century
257
9
Later Lutheranism and the second Reformation
266
4
Catholic reform
270
7
The seventeenth century and the resolution of the Reformation conflict
277
5
Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century
282
46
Philip Walters
Europe East and West
282
2
1453--1700
284
12
Christianity under Ottoman rule
284
6
Russia and its Church
290
6
1700--1920
296
15
Peter the Great and the New Russia
296
5
The Caucusus between Russians and Ottomans
301
2
Balkan Christians in a declining Ottoman Empire
303
5
The Russian religious renaissance of the late nineteenth century
308
3
1920--1990
311
10
The collapse of the empires
311
1
The Churches in the inter-war Balkans
312
2
Russian Christianity under Communism
314
5
Balkan Christianity under Communism
319
2
Post-Communist Christianity
321
7
Latin America
328
41
Adrian Hastings
Sixteenth-century Spain
328
2
The first hundred and fifty years of Latin American Catholicism
330
13
1650--1780
343
6
1780--1900: revolutions and reactions
349
8
The twentieth century
357
12
China and its neighbours
369
47
R. G. Tiedemann
China before 1500: Nestorians and Franciscans
369
4
The planting of Christianity, 1500-1800
373
13
The Philippines
374
1
The rise and fall of Christianity in late medieval Japan
375
2
Late imperial China
377
7
The origins of the Church in Vietnam
384
2
1800--1945
386
19
The Church, colonialism and nationalism in South-east Asia
386
4
From mission to Church in modern China
390
9
Japan: the second encounter
399
3
Korea
402
3
1945 onwards
405
6
The Chinese Church under Communism
405
3
Post-colonial South-East Asia
408
1
South Korea
409
2
Concluding comments
411
5
North America
416
42
Robert Bruce Mullin
Seventeenth-century beginnings
417
4
New challenges
421
1
Wars and the Great Awakening
422
6
The Second Great Awakening
428
4
Canadian developments
432
1
Catholics and controversy
433
3
The problem of slavery and division
436
4
Crisis days/halcyon days
440
3
The Social Gospel
443
1
Canada: organization and union
444
2
Challenges for the soul of America
446
3
Let the Church be the Church
449
2
The Post-War Revival
451
1
The 1960s and the second disestablishment
452
3
Christianity in North America at the end of the twentieth century
455
3
Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment
458
50
Mary Heimann
Introduction
458
1
Enlightenment
459
6
Rational religion
465
6
The unenlightened
471
6
Revolution and reaction
477
8
Liberalism
485
5
Science and religion
490
7
Pluralism and diffusion
497
11
Australiasia and the Pacific
508
29
David Hilliard
Christian beginnings in Australia
509
2
Christianity in the Pacific Islands
511
5
Christianity in New Zealand
516
2
Adaptation and innovation
518
8
Church and society
526
3
The Pacific Churches since the Second World War
529
2
Recent trends in Australia and New Zealand
531
6
Bibliography
537
35
Maps
572
10
Index
582