A concise history of Western Christianity:
The early and medieval period
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chapter 1: Christianity in the first and early second century
1.1 From Jesus to the Early Church
1.2 Chart of different groups in the NT time
1.3 From Judaism to Christianity
1.4 Missionary strategies in early Christianity
1.5 Seven stages in the early spread of Christianity: A study of Acts
1.6 The disappearance of Jewish Christianity--A conflict of loyalty
1.7 The different Jewish groups after the Judaeo-Roman war
1.8 The Emergence of Supersessionist Christianity
Chapter 2: Christianity and politics: Persecution and extension in the first three centuries
2.1 The early Christians’ conflicts with various groups
2.2 Waves of persecution in the first three centuries
Chapter 3: Challenges to the Christian faith and the trend towards a unified faith
The diversity of early Christian groups andtheir further development
3.1 From diversity to unity
3.2 Graphic description of the Gnostic salvation story
3.3 Christian responses to doctrinal challenges in the second century
Chapter 4: Christianity and culture: The encounter with Hellenist philosophy
4.1 Image of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
4.2 Neo-Platonism’s hierarchy of being
4.3 Important theologians of the first four centuries
4.3 Early Trinitarian models
Chapter 5: Christianity becoming the religion of the empire
5.1 Map of the Roman Empire before Constantine at the end of the 3rd century
Chapter 6: Theological and ecclesial controversies in the fourth century
6.1 Summary comparison between Arianism and Orthodoxy
Chapter 7: Theology and christological debates in the 5th century
7.1 Five centuries of Trinitarian and christological debates under different names
7.2a The Christological Debates in the 5th Century
7.2b The Christological Debates in the 5th Century
7.3 Comparison between Nestorianism and Orthodoxy
7.4 Comparison between Eutychianism and Orthodoxy
7.5 Topics in Augustine's theology and its influence on later Western theology
Chapter 8: Mission history: The extension of the Catholic Church and its inculturation in new contexts
8.1 Map of invasions of the Roman Empire
8.2 Spread of Christianity in the first 600 years
8.3 The expansion of the Islamic Empire during the first 130 years
8.4 Europe at the end of Charlemagne‘s reign (814)
Chapter 9: Papal history: The growth of papal power
9.1 Different leadership models: Episcopalism vs papalism
9.2 Summary: Seven steps in the development of papal power
Chapter 10: The history of a growing division: The churches in East and West on separate ways
10.1 Six steps in the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
Chapter 11: The history of the other church: Revivalism, reform, and alternative Christian faith expression in the medieval time
11.1 The basic pattern of development of the other church in medieval Catholicism
11.2 The dual governance structure of the Catholic Church
Chapter 12: Outward militancy and inward divisions in the high and late medieval time
12.1 The first crusades
Chapter 13: Theological developments during the medieval time
13.1 Four periods of medieval theological development
13.2 Medieval concepts of faith and reason
13.3 Different positions in the controversy about the universals
