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| Foreword | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Age of Jesus and the Apostles 6 BC-AD 70 | |
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| Away with the King: The Jesus Movement | |
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| Wineskins: Old and New: The Gospel to the Gentiles | |
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| The Age of Catholic Christianity 70-312 | |
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| Only Worthless People: Catholic Christianity | |
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| If the Tiber Floods: The Persecution of Christians | |
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| Arguing about the Event: The Rise of Orthodoxy | |
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| The Rule of Books: The Formation of the Bible | |
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| The School for Sinners: The Power of Bishops | |
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| Apostles to Intellectuals: The Alexandrians | |
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| The Age of the Christian Roman Empire 312-590 | |
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| Laying Her Sceptre Down: The Conversion of the Empire | |
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| Splitting Important Hairs: The Doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Emmanuel!: Christ in the Creeds | |
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| Exiles from Life: The Beginnings of Monasticism | |
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| The Sage of the Ages: Augustine | |
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| Peter as "Pontifex Maximus": The Beginnings of the Papacy | |
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| Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth: Eastern Orthodoxy | |
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| Bending the Necks of Victors: Mission to the Barbarians | |
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| The Christian Middle Ages 590-1517 | |
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| God's Consul: Gregory the Great | |
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| The Search for Unity: Charlemagne and Christendom | |
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| Lifted in a Mystic Manner: The Papacy and the Crusader | |
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| The Nectar of Learning: Scholasticism | |
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| A Song to Lady Poverty: The Apostolic Life-Style | |
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| Sleeping Men and the Law of Necessity: The Decline of the Papacy | |
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| Judgment in the Process of Time: Wyclif and Hus | |
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| The Age of the Reformation 1517-1648 | |
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| A Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther and Protestantism | |
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| Radical Discipleship: The Anabaptists | |
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| Thrust into the Game: John Calvin | |
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| The Curse upon the Crown: The Church of England | |
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| "Another Man" at Manresa: The Catholic Reformation | |
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| Opening the Rock: America and Asia | |
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| The Rule of the Saints: Puritanism | |
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| Unwilling to Die for an Old Idea: Denominations | |
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| The Age of Reason and Revival 1648-1789 | |
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| Aiming at the Foundations: The Cult of Reason | |
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| The Heart and Its Reasons: Pascal and the Pietists | |
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| A Brand from the Burning: Wesley and Methodism | |
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| A New Order of the Ages: The Great Awakening | |
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| The Age of Progress 1789-1914 | |
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| The Restoration of Fortresses: Catholicism in the Age of Progress | |
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| A New Social Frontier: Nineteenth-Century England | |
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| To Earth's Remotest People: Protestant Missions | |
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| The Destiny of a Nation: A Christian America | |
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| A Bridge for Intelligent Moderns: Protestant Liberalism | |
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| Nothing to Lose but Chains: The Social Crisis | |
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| The Age of Ideologies 1914- | |
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| Graffiti on a Wall of Shame: Twentieth-Century Ideologies | |
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| Rootless Immigrants in a Sick Society: American Evangelicals | |
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| New Creeds for Breakfast: The Ecumenical Movement | |
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| The Medicine of Mercy: Roman Catholicism: Vatican II | |
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| Time for a Reverse Flow: Christianity in the Third World | |
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| Politics as Noble Calling: Christianity in America's Me Generation | |
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| The Global Village: Christianity on the World Scene | |
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| Winds from Afar: Christianity at the Birth of the Third Millennium | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| List of Popes from Leo I to the Present | |
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| Indexes (People, Movements, Events) | |