Page 2 - History of Christianity - Student Textbook

Contents

Study Section 1: Church History I – Early Church to Middle Ages ............................................................................ 2

Study Section 2: The First Great Persecution under Nero – 64 AD. – 67 AD ............................................................ 7
Study Section 3: Apologists in the Early Church - continued .................................................................................. 12
Study Section 4: The Church in Favor ..................................................................................................................... 17

Study Section 5: The Great Scientific Theologians - continued .............................................................................. 23
Study Section 6: The Great Scientific Theologians - continued .............................................................................. 29
Study Section 7: Fall of Rome and Death of Augustine 430 ................................................................................... 34

Study Section 8: Islam and the Church ................................................................................................................... 39
Study Section 9: The Great Schism to the Reformation (1054-1483) ...................................................................... 46
Study Section 10: The Church Leaves Her First Love .............................................................................................. 52
Study Section 11: Hesychasm Controversy, c. 1300-1399 ...................................................................................... 58

Study Section 12: The Domination of Humanism in Europe and the Renaissance Movement .............................. 64
Study Section 13: Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods (1483-1750) ......................................................... 68
Study Section 14: The Great Reformers - continued .............................................................................................. 72

Study Section 15: Opposition to the Reformation .................................................................................................. 77
Study Section 16: The Period of Orthodoxy, 1559-1622 ......................................................................................... 82
Study Section 17: 30 Years War, 1618-1648 ........................................................................................................... 89
Study Section 18: Writers of the French Revolution 1694-1784 ............................................................................ 93

Study Section 19: The Great Revivalists .................................................................................................................. 98
Study Section 20: The Enlightenment Begins 1720-80 ......................................................................................... 104
Study Section 21: The Gospel goes to Africa ........................................................................................................ 110

Study Section 22: The Gospel goes to China ......................................................................................................... 115
Study Section 23: Neo-orthodox Ideas ................................................................................................................. 121
Study Section 24: The Emergence of Modernism c. 1890-1900 ........................................................................... 125

Study Section 25: Explosion of Christianity in Africa, 1950-60 ............................................................................ 132

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