A World History of Christianity by Hastings, Adrian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Contents Illustrations Preface The Contributors Introduction: Adrian Hastings 1 The emergence of Christianity: Martin Goodman

Judaism, the Roman Empire and Jesus The emergence of the Church

2 150–550: Adrian Hastings

The second and third centuries Constantine and an imperial Church The monastic movement Dogma and theology in the fourth and fifth centuries Missionary expansion and political disintegration: surpassing the empire

3 The Orthodox Church in Byzantium: Mary Cunningham

The sixth century: the revival of the Christian Roman Empire The seventh century and Monothelitism The Iconoclast Controversy (726–813) The revival of monasticism and the patriarchate of Photios Ninth-century missions to the Slavs and the emergence of the Slavic Churches The tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries The first four Crusades (1097–1204) The period of Latin occupation, 1204–61 The Slavic Churches in the last centuries of Byzantium The Palaeologan period, 1261–1453 Conclusion

4 The medieval West: Benedicta Ward and G. R. Evans

The medieval idea of the Church Spreading Christianity through northern Europe The Bible and the Church Church and state and papal authority The Church and the individual: sanctity, feasts and sacraments Religious life, prayer and mysticism The Church and war Education and theology Reform and revolution

5 India: R. E. Frykenberg

Early arrivals: the Thomas and Eastern Christians Responses to the Padroado and Propaganda Fide Evangelical and Enlightenment impulses Challenges under the Raj The continent since 1947

6 Africa: Kevin Ward

Egypt, North Africa, Nubia and Islam Ethiopia The kingdom of Kongo and the Portuguese missionary enterprise The revival of mission in the nineteenth century

West Africa South Africa Eastern Africa

Colonial and missionary scrambles Christianity in colonial times: education and ‘adaptation’ The rise of independent Churches Other movements of spiritual renewal Decolonialization Christianity and the politics of independent Africa African theology Conclusion

7 Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Andrew Pettegree

The pre-Reformation Church Luther and Germany The Reformation outside Germany Calvinism and religious warfare in the second half of the sixteenth century Later Lutheranism and the second Reformation Catholic reform The seventeenth century and the resolution of the Reformation conflict

8 Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century: Philip Walters

Europe East and West 1453–1700

Christianity under Ottoman rule Russia and its Church

1700–1920

Peter the Great and the New Russia The Caucusus between Russians and Ottomans Balkan Christians in a declining Ottoman Empire The Russian religious renaissance of the late nineteenth century

1920–1990

The collapse of the empires The Churches in the inter-war Balkans Russian Christianity under Communism Balkan Christianity under Communism

Post-Communist Christianity

9 Latin America: Adrian Hastings

Sixteenth-century Spain The first hundred and fifty years of Latin American Catholicism 1650–1780 1780–1900: revolutions and reactions The twentieth century

10 China and its neighbours: R. G. Tiedemann

China before 1500: Nestorians and Franciscans The planting of Christianity, 1500–1800

The Philippines The rise and fall of Christianity in late medieval Japan Late imperial China The origins of the Church in Vietnam

1800–1945

The Church, colonialism and nationalism in South-east Asia From mission to Church in modern China Japan: the second encounter Korea

1945 onwards

The Chinese Church under Communism Post-colonial South-East Asia

Concluding comments

11 North America: Robert Bruce Mullin

Seventeenth-century beginnings New challenges Wars and the Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening Canadian developments Catholics and controversy The problem of slavery and division Crisis days/halcyon days The Social Gospel Canada: organization and union Challenges for the soul of America Let the Church be the Church The Post-War Revival The 1960s and the second disestablishment Christianity in North America at the end of the twentieth century

12 Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment: Mary Heimann

Introduction Enlightenment Rational religion The unenlightened Revolution and reaction Liberalism Science and religion Pluralism and diffusion

13 Australasia and the Pacific: David Hilliard

Christian beginnings in Australia Christianity in the Pacific Islands Christianity in New Zealand Adaptation and innovation Church and society The Pacific Churches since the Second World War Recent trends in Australia and New Zealand

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