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| List of maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| The contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The emergence of Christianity | |
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| Judaism, the Roman Empire and Jesus | |
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| The emergence of the Church | |
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| 150-550 | |
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| The second and third centuries | |
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| Constantine and an imperial Church | |
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| The monastic movement | |
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| Dogma and theology in the fourth and fifth centuries | |
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| Missionary expansion and political disintegration: surpassing the empire | |
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| The Orthodox Church in Byzantium | |
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| The sixth century: the revival of the Christian Roman Empire | |
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| The seventh century and Monothelitism | |
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| The Iconoclast Controversy (726-843) | |
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| The revival of monasticism and the patriarchate of Photios | |
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| Ninth-century missions to the Slavs and the emergence of the Slavic Churches | |
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| The tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries | |
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| The first four Crusades (1097-1204) | |
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| The period of Latin occupation, 1204-61 | |
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| The Slavic Churches in the last centuries of Byzantium | |
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| The Palaeologan period, 1261-1453 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The medieval West | |
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| The medieval idea of the Church | |
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| Spreading Christianity through northern Europe | |
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| The Bible and the Church | |
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| Church and state and papal authority | |
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| The Church and the individual: sanctity, feasts and sacraments | |
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| Religious life, prayer and mysticism | |
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| The Church and war | |
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| Education and theology | |
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| Reform and revolution | |
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| India | |
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| Early arrivals: the Thomas and Eastern Christians | |
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| Responses to the Padroado and Propaganda Fide | |
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| Evangelical and Enlightenment impulses | |
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| Challenges under the Raj | |
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| The continent since 1947 | |
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| Africa | |
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| Egypt, North Africa, Nubia and Islam | |
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| Ethiopia | |
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| The kingdom of Kongo and the Portuguese missionary enterprise | |
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| The revival of mission in the nineteenth century | |
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| West Africa | |
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| South Africa | |
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| Eastern Africa | |
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| Colonial and missionary scrambles | |
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| Christianity in colonial times: education and 'adaptation' | |
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| The rise of independent Churches | |
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| Other movements of spiritual renewal | |
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| Decolonialization | |
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| Christianity and the politics of independent Africa | |
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| African theology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reformation and Counter-Reformation | |
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| The pre-Reformation Church | |
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| Luther and Germany | |
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| The Reformation outside Germany | |
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| Calvinism and religious warfare in the second half of the sixteenth century | |
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| Later Lutheranism and the second Reformation | |
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| Catholic reform | |
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| The seventeenth century and the resolution of the Reformation conflict | |
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| Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century | |
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| Europe East and West | |
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| 1453-1700 | |
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| Christianity under Ottoman rule | |
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| Russia and its Church | |
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| 1700-1920 | |
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| Peter the Great and the New Russia | |
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| The Caucusus between Russians and Ottomans | |
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| Balkan Christians in a declining Ottoman Empire | |
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| The Russian religious renaissance of the late nineteenth century | |
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| 1920-1990 | |
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| The collapse of the empires | |
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| The Churches in the inter-war Balkans | |
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| Russian Christianity under Communism | |
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| Balkan Christianity under Communism | |
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| Post-Communist Christianity | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Sixteenth-century Spain | |
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| The first hundred and fifty years of Latin American Catholicism | |
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| 1650-1780 | |
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| 1780-1900: revolutions and reactions | |
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| The twentieth century | |
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| China and its neighbours | |
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| China before 1500: Nestorians and Franciscans | |
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| The planting of Christianity, 1500-1800 | |
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| The Philippines | |
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| The rise and fall of Christianity in late medieval Japan | |
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| Late imperial China | |
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| The origins of the Church in Vietnam | |
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| 1800-1945 | |
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| The Church, colonialism and nationalism in South-east Asia | |
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| From mission to Church in modern China | |
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| Japan: the second encounter | |
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| Korea | |
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| 1945 onwards | |
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| The Chinese Church under Communism | |
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| Post-colonial South-East Asia | |
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| South Korea | |
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| Concluding comments | |
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| North America | |
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| Seventeenth-century beginnings | |
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| New challenges | |
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| Wars and the Great Awakening | |
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| The Second Great Awakening | |
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| Canadian developments | |
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| Catholics and controversy | |
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| The problem of slavery and division | |
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| Crisis days/halcyon days | |
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| The Social Gospel | |
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| Canada: organization and union | |
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| Challenges for the soul of America | |
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| Let the Church be the Church | |
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| The Post-War Revival | |
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| The 1960s and the second disestablishment | |
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| Christianity in North America at the end of the twentieth century | |
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| Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Enlightenment | |
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| Rational religion | |
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| The unenlightened | |
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| Revolution and reaction | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Science and religion | |
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| Pluralism and diffusion | |
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| Australasia and the Pacific | |
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| Christian beginnings in Australia | |
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| Christianity in the Pacific Islands | |
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| Christianity in New Zealand | |
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| Adaptation and innovation | |
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| Church and society | |
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| The Pacific Churches since the Second World War | |
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| Recent trends in Australia and New Zealand | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Maps | |
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| Index | |