The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Volume: 1
By: Everett Ferguson Format: Hardcover, Printed
List Price: $29.99 (USD)
Synopsis: A church history text that integrates the events and development of the church with the social, economic, and intellectual history of the world around it.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 0310205808, ISBN-13: 9780310205807Features: Index Included
Suggested Uses: Lead & Teach,
Learn & StudyAges: Adult
Related Product Types: Biblical Reference,
Biblical Studies & Church History,
New Testament Studies,
Old Testament Studies
A church history text that integrates the events and development of the church with the social, economic, and intellectual history of the world around it.
Description: Church History offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed. It did so not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. Church History looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church.
Volume one explores the development of the church from the days of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it offers overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds; insights into the church’s relationship to the Roman empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes toward Christians; the place of art and architecture, literature and philosophy, both sacred and secular; and much more, spanning the time from the first through the thirteenth centuries.
Volume One Content Overview
1. The Setting for the Story’s Beginning 2. Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church 3. The Subapostolic Age 4. The Church and the Empire 5. Heresies and Schisms of the Second Century 6. The Defense Against Rival Interpretations 7. The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems 8. Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries 9. Development of the Church During the Third Century 10. Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century 11. The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature 12. The Church in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries: Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship 13. Christological Controversies to Chalcedon 14. Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism 15. Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy 16. Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 17. The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries 18. The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries 19. Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 20. The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade 21. Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism 22. Monastic, Literary, Political, and Cultural Activities in the Twelfth Centuries 23. The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century 24. Portents of Decline
Page Count: 544
Paper Edge Description: White
Size: 7.7 wide x 9.6 high x 1.3 deep in. | 195 wide x 244 high x deep 33 mm
Weight: 2.245 lb | 1017 gms
Available: July, 2005
Publisher: Zondervan
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