A Summary of Christian History
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Overview
Originally published in 1959, A Summary of Christian History has been a classic text for introductory-level studies of Christian history for more than four decades. Even in the face of advancing history, new findings, and changing perspectives, Dr. Baker’s original classic has remained popular decades beyond the normal life expectancy of a textbook.
In this third edition, Dr. John Landers, a former student of Dr. Baker, builds on the original goal of helping students grasp the broad contours of Christian history without becoming lost in a maze of historical detail.
- Attempts to offer an overview of Christian history for beginning students
- Includes chronologies to provide readers an additional way to grasp the flow of events that are discussed along the text
- Offers a section for Further Reading that expands on the material presented in each chapter, as well as other perspectives that complement the text
- The Beginning of Historical Christianity
- Pagan Opposition to Christianity
- The Struggle for Purity
- The Close of an Era
- The Age of Constantine
- Roman Catholic Foundations
- Roman Catholic Expansions
- Religious Opposition to Roman Authority
- Throne and Altar
- Roman Catholic Domination
- The High Middle Ages
- The Decline of Papal Prestige and the Rise of Nation States
- The Reanaissance
- Renaissance Church Councils
- Ecclesiastical Dissent
- Causes of the Reformation
- The Lutheran Reform
- The Zwinglian and Calvinistic Reforms
- Anabaptists and the Radical Reformation
- The Anglican Reform
- The Roman Catholic Revival
- The Thirty Years War
- The Seaborne Expansion of Christianity
- Continental European Christianity, 1648-1789
- British Christianity, 1649-1789
- Colonial North American Christianity
- Continuental European Christianity since 1789
- British Christianity since 1789
- The United States and Canada
- The Worldwide Missionary Movement
- Global Christianity