Table of Contents
List of Profiles of Faith xiii
Preface to the Fifth Edition xv
Contributors to the Fifth Edition xix
Prologue 1
Part 1 The Age of Jesus and the Apostles, 6 BC-AD 70
1 Away with the King! The Jesus Movement 7
2 Wineskins Old and New: The Gospel to the Gentiles 20
Part 2 The Age of Catholic Christianity, 70-312
3 Only "Worthless" People: Catholic Christianity 35
4 If the Tiber Floods: The Persecution of Christians 48
5 Arguing about the Event: The Rise of Orthodoxy 59
6 The Rule of Books: Formation of the Bible 69
7 School for Sinners: A Structure That Fits 80
8 Apostles to Intellectuals: Interacting with Other Worldviews 90
9 Countries of the Sunrise: Early Christianity in Asia and Africa 100
Part 3 The Age of the Christian Roman Empire, 312-590
10 Laying Her Sceptre Down: Conversion of the Empire 117
11 Splitting Important Hairs: The Doctrine of the Trinity 127
12 Emmanuel! Christ in the Creeds 138
13 Exiles from Life: Beginnings of Monasticism 148
14 The Sage of the Ages: Augustine of Hippo 159
15 Peter as "Pontifex Maximus": Beginnings of the Papacy 168
16 Somewhere between Heaven and Earth: Eastern Orthodoxy 178
17 Bending the Necks of Victors: Mission to the Barbarians 190
Part 4 The Christian Middle Ages, 590-1517
18 God's Consul: Gregory the Great 203
19 The Search for Unity: Charlemagne and Christendom 213
20 Lifted in a Mystic Manner: The Papacy and the Crusader 224
21 The Nectar of Learning: Scholasticism 236
22 A Song to Lady Poverty: Francis and the Apostolic Lifestyle 247
23 Chaos and the Law of Necessity: Decline of the Papacy 260
24 Judgment in the Process of Time: Wyclif and Hus 271
Part 5 The Age of the Reformation, 1517-1648
25 A Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther and Protestantism 283
26 Radical Discipleship: The Anabaptists 293
27 Thrust into the Game: John Calvin and Reformed Rule 303
28 The Curse upon the Crown: The Church of England 312
29 "Another Man" at Manresa: The Catholic Reformation 320
30 Opening the Rock: Uttermost America and Asia 330
31 The Rule of the Saints: Puritanism 342
32 Unwilling to Die for an Old Idea: Denominations 352
Part 6 The Age of Reason and Revival, 1648-1789
33 Aiming at the Foundations: The Cult of Reason 365
34 The Heart and Its Reasons: Pascal and the Pietists 375
35 A Brand from the Burning: Wesley and Methodism 387
36 A New Order of the Ages: The Great Awakening 399
Part 7 The Age of Progress, 1789-1914
37 Restoring the Fortress: Catholicism in the Age of Progress 413
38 A New Social Frontier: Nineteenth-Century England 426
39 To Earth's Remotest People: Protestant Missions 436
40 The Destiny of a Nation: A Christian America? 448
41 A Bridge for Intelligent Moderns: Protestant Liberalism 461
42 Nothing to Lose but Chains: Slums and the Social Gospel 473
Part 8 The Age of Ideologies, 1914-1989
43 Graffiti on a Wall of Shame: Twentieth-Century Ideologies 489
44 Rootless Immigrants in a Sick Society: American Evangelicals 501
45 New Creeds for Breakfast: The Ecumenical Movement 514
46 The Medicine of Mercy: Roman Catholicism and Vatican II 525
Part 9 The Age of Technology and the Spirit, 1990-
47 New Technologies, New Contexts: Christian Ministries in the West 539
48 More Peoples, More Tongues: Emergence of the Global South 554
Epilogue 569
Notes 575
For Further Study 583
Index of People 585
Index of Movements 591
Index of Events 595