Reclaiming our roots : an inclusive introduction to church history. 1 /
Mark Ellingsen.
- 320 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 22 centímetros
Incluye bibliografía.
The beginnings of christianity: including the gentiles. A liberating, open "Jewish" movement?. Defending the faith: the first christian apologists. Struggles against heresy. Life in the early Church. The establishment of christianity and the development of monasticism. The nicene solution. More internal struggles in a less friendly environment. Augostine and the Augustinian synthesis. The great contemporaries of Augustine. Christological controversies, a divided christendom, and a new order. The middle ages: Tests of strength for church and state. Scholastic theology in the high middle ages. Dawn of the reformation. The beginnings of colonial christianity and its imparct on the church in Europe.