The Story of Christianity: From Birth to Global PresenceIn order to highlight the long lines of continuity and development in the historical process of the religion, Balling (ancient and medieval church history, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) slides over many events that would illuminate the nuances and diversity of that process, and limits his study to European |
Contents
Ways of Faith and Ways of Life | 5 |
Context and Events | 33 |
178 | 86 |
Eastern Christianity | 97 |
From the Mediterranean to Europe | 114 |
Old Europe | 123 |
The Time of the Church | 129 |
h Deviant Christianity | 179 |
Churches Societies and People | 209 |
e Personal Christianity | 218 |
Consequences and Responses226 | 226 |
Old European Christianity in the Mirror of the Poets | 232 |
Modernity | 237 |
Modern European and American Christianity | 249 |
Conclusion | 287 |
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