A World History of ChristianityAdrian Hastings Christianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America. This prodigious work provides the first genuinely global one-volume study of the rise, development, and impact of the Christian faith. Written by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive volume covers the full breadth of Christian history while also taking seriously the geographical diversity of the story: extensive chapters cover North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, China and its neighbors, and Australia and the Pacific. Though unified in scope, these chapters each focus on what matters most in the specific time and place covered, ensuring that readers are introduced to the major themes—social, theological, political, and cultural—that together constitute Christianity's role in world history. Ideally suited for classroom study as well as for independent reading, A World History of Christianity will serve as the definitive study of church history for the coming generation worldwide. Contributors: Mary B. Cunningham Gillian Evans Robert E. Frykenberg Martin Goodman Adrian Hastings Mary Heimann David Hilliard Robert Bruce Mullin Andrew Pettegree Gary Tiedemann Philip Walters Benedicta Ward Kevin Ward |
Contents
The emergence of Christianity | 7 |
The emergence of the Church | 16 |
150550 Adrian Hastings | 25 |
Constantine and an imperial Church | 35 |
The monastic movement | 43 |
Dogma and theology in the fourth and fifth centuries | 46 |
surpassing the empire | 58 |
The Orthodox Church in Byzantium | 66 |
The Russian religious renaissance of the late nineteenth century | 308 |
19201990 | 311 |
The Churches in the interwar Balkans | 312 |
Russian Christianity under Communism | 314 |
Balkan Christianity under Communism | 319 |
PostCommunist Christianity | 321 |
Latin America | 328 |
The first hundred and fifty years of Latin American Catholicism | 330 |
the revival of the Christian Roman Empire | 68 |
The seventh century and Monothelitism | 74 |
The Iconoclast controversy 726843 | 77 |
The revival of monasticism and the patriarchate of Photios | 81 |
Ninthcentury missions to the Slavs and the emergence of the Slavic Churches | 82 |
The tenth eleventh and twelfth centuries | 86 |
The first four Crusades 10971204 | 94 |
The period of Latin occupation 120461 | 97 |
The Slavic Churches in the last centuries of Byzantium | 99 |
The Palaeologan period 12611453 | 101 |
Conclusion | 105 |
The medieval West | 110 |
Spreading Christianity through northern Europe | 111 |
The Bible and the Church | 119 |
Church and state and papal authority | 122 |
sanctity feasts and sacraments | 125 |
Religious life prayer and mysticism | 131 |
The Church and war | 137 |
Education and theology | 139 |
Reform and revolution | 141 |
India | 147 |
the Thomas Christians | 148 |
Responses to the Padroado and Propaganda Fide | 157 |
Evangelical and Enlightenment impulses | 172 |
Challenges under the Raj | 179 |
The continent since 1947 | 188 |
Africa | 192 |
Egypt North Africa Nubia and Islam | 193 |
Ethiopia | 197 |
The kingdom of Kongo and the Portuguese missionary enterprise | 200 |
The revival of mission in the nineteenth century | 203 |
South Africa | 209 |
Eastern Africa | 213 |
Colonial and missionary scrambles | 216 |
education and adaptation | 218 |
The rise of independent Churches | 221 |
Other movements of spiritual renewal | 223 |
Decolonialization | 226 |
Christianity and the politics of independent Africa | 228 |
African theology | 231 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Reformation and CounterReformation | 238 |
Luther and Germany | 243 |
The Reformation outside Germany | 248 |
Calvinism and religious warfare in the second half of the sixteenth century | 257 |
Later Lutheranism and the second Reformation | 266 |
Catholic reform | 270 |
The seventeenth century and the resolution of the Reformation conflict | 277 |
Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century | 282 |
14531700 | 284 |
Russia and its Church | 290 |
17001920 | 296 |
The Caucasus between Russians and Ottomans | 301 |
Balkan Christians in a declining Ottoman Empire | 303 |
16501780 | 343 |
revolutions and reactions | 349 |
The twentieth century | 357 |
China and its neighbours | 369 |
The planting of Christianity 15001800 | 373 |
The Philippines | 374 |
The rise and fall of Christianity in late medieval Japan | 375 |
Late imperial China | 377 |
The origins of the Church in Vietnam | 384 |
18001945 | 386 |
From mission to Church in modern China | 390 |
the second encounter | 399 |
Korea | 402 |
1945 onwards | 405 |
Postcolonial Southeast Asia | 408 |
South Korea | 409 |
Concluding comments | 411 |
North America | 416 |
Seventeenthcentury beginnings | 417 |
New challenges | 421 |
Wars and the Great Awakening | 422 |
The Second Great Awakening | 428 |
Canadian developments | 432 |
Catholics and controversy | 433 |
The problem of slavery and division | 436 |
Crisis dayshalcyon days | 440 |
The Social Gospel | 443 |
organization and union | 444 |
Challenges for the soul of America | 446 |
Let the Church be the Church | 449 |
The PostWar Revival | 451 |
The 1960s and the second disestablishment | 452 |
Christianity in North America at the end of the twentieth century | 455 |
Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment | 458 |
Enlightenment | 459 |
Rational religion | 465 |
The unenlightened | 471 |
Revolution and reaction | 477 |
Liberalism | 485 |
Science and religion | 490 |
Pluralism and diffusion | 497 |
Australasia and the Pacific | 508 |
Christian beginnings in Australia | 509 |
Christianity in the Pacific Islands | 511 |
Christianity in New Zealand | 516 |
Adaptation and innovation | 518 |
Church and society | 526 |
The Pacific Churches since the Second World War | 529 |
Recent trends in Australia and New Zealand | 531 |
Bibliography | 537 |
Maps | 572 |
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