Pocket History of the Church

Name: Pocket History of the Church
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ISBN: 9780830827015

ISBN-10: 0830827013

ISBN-13: 9780830827015

Edition: 2002

Authors: D. Jeffrey Bingham

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The story of Christianity is a fascinating tale. Here we find drama, vision and expansion along with failure, setbacks and tragedy. Yet during the past two thousand years the power of Jesus is felt throughout the interplay of human actors and the forces of world events.How can you grasp the story played out on such a gigantic stage? This book is an ideal place to start. D. Jeffrey Bingham has skillfully selected the key people and episodes to tell a grand and humbling story. From Roman persecution to the early creeds, from the monastic movement to the Reformation, from the rise of liberalism to missionary expansion, he chronicles the ups and downs of a people and a faith.This pocket history…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 4/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

D. Jeffrey Bingham (Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is associate dean, biblical and theological studies, and professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is general editor for The Bible in Ancient Christianity Monograph Series from E. J. Brill (Leiden).



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Early Church



On the Heels of the Apostles



Councils of Doctrine, Cloisters of Holiness



The Church in the Middle Ages



Empires, Emperors & Pastors



Medieval Lessons on Prayer, Thinking & Devotion



The Church in the Protestant Reformation



A River with Many Tributaries



The Doctrine of Salvation in the Reformers



The Doctrines of the Church & the Scriptures in the Reformers



Chains of Spanish Silver: The Church in the Modern Era



The Enlightenment & Modernity



Awakenings & Revivals



Liberalism, Missions & Evangelicalism


Notes


Bibliography


Subject


Index


Scripture


Index