Prophets of reform before Protestantism -- Luther and the dawn of Protestantism -- Zwingli, Calvin, and the reformed tradition -- The Anabaptist radicals -- The Catholic reformation -- The church militant in the Spanish Empire -- War and witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire -- Puritans, kings, and theology in practice -- Religious dissent and the English Civil War -- Eastern Orthodoxy: from Byzantium to Russia -- Christians under Muslim rule -- The church and the scientific revolution -- The enlightenment quest for reasonable faith -- Pietist revival in Europe -- The first great awakening -- Religion and revolution in the 18th Century -- The second great awakening -- The Mormons: a true American faith -- Slave religion in the Americas -- Christian missions and moral reform -- The church's encounter with modern learning -- The social gospel -- Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism -- Apocalyptic faith in the 1800s and beyond -- The church and the Russian Revolution -- The rival gods of the cold war -- Rebellion and reform in Latin America -- Vatican II and global renewal -- Secularism and the death of God -- The gospel and global civil rights -- Culture wars and the Christian right -- Liberation theologies in Latin America -- Prophetic religion in modern Africa -- Chinese Christianity: missionaries to Mao -- Revival and repression in Korea -- The challenge of 21st-Century Christianity.
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