Introduction -- The abiding glory: the people of Israel -- Jesus Christ, born of the Jews -- The death of the Messiah -- The Easter proclamation -- The church of the apostles -- The growth of the early church -- The age of the martyrs -- The Gnostics -- Alexandria in the early Christian centuries -- Constantine the Great and the birth of Christendom -- Cities of the desert: the rise of monasticism -- Christianity in Armenia and India -- Ancient splendour: Christianity in Ethiopia -- One god in three persons: the Earliest church councils -- The age of the fathers -- The fall of Rome and the rise of a new western Christendom -- Western monasticism and the preservation of western learning -- Christendom -- The formation of orthodox christology -- The last epoch of the united Christian empire -- The "Church of the East": the Nestorian missions -- A new power in the world: the rise of Islam -- Charlemagne -- The face of God: the iconoclast controversy -- Franks and Byzantines: the widening gulf -- The conversion of the Slavs -- The great schism -- The early Crusades -- Byzantine zenith and nadir -- The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages -- The high Middle Ages -- Reason and superstition: medieval contradictions -- The Oriental churches in the later Middle Ages -- Byzantine twilight -- The last Caesar -- Renaissance Christian thought -- Spain and its Inquisition -- The Reformation begins -- The growth of Reformation -- The Anabaptists and the Catholic reformation -- Schism and war: early modern Europe -- Colonies and missions -- The Church and the scientists -- Deism, enlightenment and revolution -- Eastern orthodoxy in the early modern period -- The 19th century: a time of radical doubt -- The 19th century: a time of fervent faith -- The 20th century in America -- The most violent century in history -- The 20th to the 21st century: the rise of a new Christendom.
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