The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

	Chapter 1: The Development of the Early Church (1 to 300 A.D.)
	Chapter 2: Christ Conquers Caesar (300 to 600)
	Chapter 3: Europe as a Christian Society (600 to 1000)
	Chapter 4: The Age of Faith (1000 to 1500)
	Chapter 5: The Reformation (1500 to 1648)
	Chapter 6: The Church Goes Forth (1500 to 1725)
	Chapter 7: New Denominations, New Opportunities (1600 to 1900)
	Chapter 8: The Church In the Twentieth Century

Chapter 1: The Development of the Early Church

1 to 300 A.D.

	Introduction
	How God prepared the Way
	Jesus of Nazareth
	The Rabbi from Tarsus
	The Journeys of the Apostles
	The Church Loses its Hebraic Roots
	The Glory Goes Away
	Defending the Faith
	Competitors to Christianity
	The First Heresies
	The Roman Response to Christianity

Chapter 2: Christ Conquers Caesar

300 to 600

	Constantine
	Controversies and Councils
	While Rome Fell
	The End of Arianism
	The Birth of Monasticism

Chapter 3: Europe as a Christian Society

600 to 1000

	The Challenge from Islam
	The Church's Role in the Recovery of the West
	Paulicians and Iconoclasm: the Eastern Church
	The Cities Beneath Cappadocia
	Charlemagne and Christendom
	The Church Backslides and Splits
	The Recovery of Christendom

Chapter 4: The Age of Faith

1000 to 1500

	The High Water Mark of the Papacy
	The Crusades
	The Real Achievements of the Medieval Church
	Clouds on the Horizon
	The Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy, A Long Night Begins for the East

Chapter 5: The Reformation

1500 to 1648

	Christendom at the Dawn of the Modern Era
	The Challenge of the Renaissance
	How an Overindulgence Led to the Reformation
	Martin Luther
	The Battle Lines are Drawn
	The Cautious Zurich Experiment
	The Anabaptists
	John Calvin
	John Knox
	The Anglican Church
	The Road to Augsburg
	Religious Wars in France
	The Revolt of the Netherlands

Chapter 6: The Church Goes Forth

1500 to 1725

	The Counter-Reformation
	The Jesuits
	The Council of Trent
	Consequences of the Reformation
	Cross Versus Crescent: Africa
	Cross Versus Crescent: Asia
	Catholicism in America
	Orthodox Growing Pains
	The Thirty Years War
	The Puritans and the English Civil War
	Some Statistics on Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7: New Denominations, New Opportunities

1600 to 1900

	Arminians, Baptists and Quakers
	Colonial American Christianity
	Pietists, Moravians and Missionaries
	The Great Awakening Begins
	John and Charles Wesley
	George Whitefield
	From Faith to Reason
	The Unitarians and Modernism
	The Catholic Church Survives Revolution
	The Church in Great Britain, the First Industrial Nation
	Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Reason Becomes Non-Reason

Chapter 8: The Church in the Twentieth Century

	Nationalism
	Communism
	Individualism
	Protestant USA: A Faith for the Frontier
	Strange New Sects
	Pentacostalism
	Preaching the Good News to All Nations
	Christianity's East Wind
	Zulu Zion
	Southern Advance, Western Retreat
	Ecumenism
	Conclusion

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