Page 2 - God's Church through the Ages - Student Textbook

Contents

Study Section 1: God’s Church Through the Ages – Early Church to Middle Ages .................................................. 2

Study Section 2: The First Great Persecution under Nero – 64 AD. – 67 AD ......................................................... 14
Study Section 3: Apologists in the Early Church - continued ................................................................................. 19
Study Section 4: The Church in Favor.................................................................................................................... 24

Study Section 5: The Great Scientific Theologians - continued ............................................................................. 30
Study Section 6: The Great Scientific Theologians - continued ............................................................................. 36
Study Section 7: Fall of Rome and death of Augustine 430 .................................................................................. 41

Study Section 8: Islam and the Church .................................................................................................................. 47
Study Section 9: The Great Schism to the Reformation (1054-1483)..................................................................... 54
Study Section 10: The Church Leaves Her First Love ............................................................................................. 60
Study Section 11: Hesychasm Controversy, c. 1300-1399..................................................................................... 66

Study Section 12: The Domination of Humanism in Europe and the Renaissance Movement ............................. 72
Study Section 13: Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods (1483-1750) ........................................................ 76
Study Section 14: The Great Reformers - continued ............................................................................................. 81

Study Section 15: Opposition to the Reformation ................................................................................................ 86
Study Section 16: The Period of Orthodoxy, 1559-1622 ........................................................................................ 92
Study Section 17: 30 Years War, 1618-1648 ......................................................................................................... 99
Study Section 18: Writers of the French Revolution 1694-1784 ......................................................................... 103

Study Section 19: The Great Revivalists .............................................................................................................. 109
Study Section 20: The Enlightenment begins 1720-80 ........................................................................................ 115
Study Section 21: The Gospel goes to Africa ....................................................................................................... 121

Study Section 22: The Gospel goes to China ....................................................................................................... 127
Study Section 23: Neo-orthodox Ideas................................................................................................................ 133
Study Section 24: The Emergence of Modernism c. 1890-1900 .......................................................................... 138

Study Section 25: Explosion of Christianity in Africa, 1950-60 ........................................................................... 145

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