The Church In History

Part One: When the Christian Church was Young

1. The New Testament Church is Born
2. The Church is Tempered, 33-313
3. The Church Grows Inwardly. 33-325
4. The Church is Victorious, 313
5. The Church Consolidates, 325-451
6. The Church Deteriorates, 100-461
7. The Church Survives and Grows Again, 376-754

Part Two: The Church in the Middle Ages

8. The Church Loses Territory, 632-732
9. The Church Forms an Alliance, 751-800
10. The Church and Papal Development, 461-1073
11. The Church in Bondage to the State, 885-1949
12. The Church is Divided, 1054
13. Monasticism and the Cluny Reform
14. The Church Makes Efforts to Free Itself, 1049-1058
15. The Church continues to Free Itself, 1059-1073
16. The Church Is Forced to Compromise, 1073-1122
17. The Church Inspires the Crusades, 1096 -1291
18. The Church Rises to Its Height of Power, 1198-1216
19. The Church Declines in Power, 1294-1417
20. The Church is Stirred from Within, 1200-1517

Part Three: The Church in Reformation

21. The Church is Shaken. October 31, 1517
22. The Church is Convulsed, 1517-1521
23. The Church is Reformed in Germany
24. The Reformation in Switzerland
25. The Anabaptists
26. The Reformation in Western Europe
27. The Church is Reformed in Scotland, 1557-1570
28. The Church is Reformed in England, 1534
29. The Roman Church Undertakes Reform, 1545-1563
30. The Protestant Churches Fight for Their Lives, 1546-1648

Part Four: The Church After the Reformation

31. The Church in England Continues to Ferment, 1558-1689
32. The Congregationalists; the Baptists
33. Arminianism; the Quakers
34. Pietism; the Moravians
35. Socianism; Unitarianism; Modernism
36. The Methodists
37. The Eastern and the Roman Church
38. Religious Life in Germany and England
39. The Reformed Churches Survive Persecution
40. The Church Grows Once More, 1500 to the Present

Part Five: The Church in the New World

41. The Church Enters the New World
42. The Church Experiences a Great Awakening
43. The Church as the Young Nation is Formed
44. The Church in the Early Nineteenth Century
45. The Church in a Time of Turmoil
46. The Church Faces New Problems
47. The Church in Canada
48. The Church Seeks to Preserve the Faith
49. The Churches Seek Co-operation and Union
50. A Look Backward and Forward

Maps

The World in Which the Church Developed Its Doctrine
The Roman Empire
Cities of the Five Patriarchs
Barbarian Migrations
Final Locations of the Invading Tribes
Europe is Christianized
The Expansion of Mohammedanism
The Papal States
The Division of Charlemagne's Empire
The Church is Divided (1054)
Significant Cities of the Medieval Church
The Land that Luther Traveled
Europe as Calvin Knew It
The Religious Situation in 1648
The Colonists Bring the Church to the New World