The Routledge Companion to Christian History

Chris Cook

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780429603884
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers:

• all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the rise of Fundamentalism
• the impact of Islam, the Crusades, Monasticism, and the spread of popular religious movements
• cross-cultural coverage; as well as Western Christendom, the Orthodox churches of the East and the 'new' churches of Asia and Africa.

Fully cross referenced throughout with a combination of chronologies, glossary and statistics this packed volumes contains everything for the first time student or for anyone revisiting the subject.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• I Outline Topic Chronologies
• The Early Church (from the Apostolic Age to the Council of Nicaea)
• Church and Empire, 313–476
• Early heresies and councils
• Christianity in North Africa (to 698)
• Early monasticism (to 910)
• Christianity in the Eastern Empire: from Justinian to the Great Schism
• Christianity in the East: the Oriental Orthodox Churches
• Christianity and the rise of Islam
• The Western Church, 402–910
• The conversion of Europe (to 1198)
• Christianity in the British Isles
• Moorish and Christian Spain, 711–1492
• The medieval papacy, 1049–1198
• The medieval papacy, 1198–1305 54
• The religious orders
• The Byzantine Church, 1054–1453
• The Crusades
• Medieval heresy: the Albigensian Crusade
• The Teutonic Knights: the Northern Crusades and the Baltic
• The medieval papacy, 1309–1449
• Medieval anti-Semitism: from the Crusades to the Counter-Reformation
• The English Church, 1066–1485
• Christianity and witchcraft in Europe
• The Proto-Reformation
• The Church on the eve of the Reformation
• Luther and the German Reformation
• Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich
• Calvin and Geneva
• The Reformation and the Civil War in France
• The English Church, 1485–1603
• The Reformation in Scotland, 1472–1603
• The Northern Reformation
• The Inquisition
• The Jesuits
• The expansion of Christianity overseas
• The English Church, 1603–88
• Religion in the American colonies and Canada, 1603–1776
• Christianity in the Russian lands
• Christianity and the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1763
• Christianity in the eighteenth century: the age of Rationalism
• The English Church, 1689–1837
• The Church, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, 1789–1815
• The papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
• Church and State in Western Europe, 1848–1914
• Holy Russia: the Orthodox Church, 1762–1917
• Christianity and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1923
• The growth of religious toleration in Continental Europe, 1782–1905
• Religion in America, 1776–1914
• The rise of black religion in America, 1787–1918
• The spread of new religious movements in America (to 1940)
• The religious question in Ireland, 1691–1871
• The English Church, 1828–1939
• The missionaries and Africa, 1752–1913
• The missionaries and India, 1698–1857
• The missionaries in Australasia and the Pacific
• The missionaries and the Far East
• The missionaries and South America, 1815–1914
• The growth of independent African Christian movements, 1872–1966
• The Church in the age of the dictators, 1918–45
• Christianity under Communism, 1917–90
• The Catholic Church and the modern world
• The Anglican Church since 1939
• Religion in America since 1914
• Modern Pentecostalism
• The modern ecumenical movement
• Dialogue and debate: Christianity and the non-Christian world
• Part II Glossary of terms and events
• Part III Compendium of lists, tables and statistics
• The spread of Christianity
• Persecution and martyrdom
• The religious orders
• The military orders
• The modern missionary age
• The development of Christian doctrine
• Pilgrimages and cults
• Church membership in the modern era
• Selected offices and office holders
• Rulers and monarchs
• General miscellany
• Bibliography
• Index