HISTORY
of the
CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Volume I
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Addenda
FIRST PERIOD
APOSTLIC CHRISTIANITY
A.D. 1–100.
CHAPTER I. PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER II. JESUS CHRIST.
CHAPTER III. THE APOSTOLIC AGE.
CHAPTER IV. ST. PETER AND THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.
CHAPTER V. ST. PAUL AND THE CONVERSION OF THE GENTILES.
CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
CHAPTER VII. ST. JOHN, AND THE LAST STADIUM OF THE APOSTOLIC PERIOD – THE
CONSOLIDATION OF JEWISH AND GENTILE CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
CHAPTER IX. WORSHIP IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE.
CHAPTER X. ORGANIZATION OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
CHAPTER XI. THEOLOGY OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.
CHAPTER XII. THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Volume II
SECOND PERIOD
ANTE-NICENE CHRISTIANITY
a.d.
100–311 (325).
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I: Spread of Christianity.
CHAPTER II: Persecution of Christianity and
Christian Martyrdom.
CHAPTER III. Literary Contest of
Christianity with Judaism and Heathenism.
CHAPTER IV: Organization and Discipline of
the Church.
CHAPTER V: Christian Worship.
CHAPTER VI: Christian Art.
CHAPTER VII: The Church in the Catacombs.
CHAPTER VIII: The Christian Life in
Contrast with Pagan Corruption.
CHAPTER IX: Ascetic Tendencies.
CHAPTER X: Montanism.
CHAPTER XI: The Heresies of the Ante-Nicene
Age.
CHAPTER XII: The Development of Catholic
Theology.
CHAPTER XIII: Ecclesiastical Literature of
the Ante-Nicene Age, and Biographical Sketches of the Church Fathers.
Volume III
THIRD PERIOD
THE CHURCH IN UNION WITH THE
ROMAN EMPIRE
FROM CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO
GREGORY THE GREAT. a.d.
311–590.
Addenda.
Addenda (5th ed.)
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. DOWNFALL OF HEATHENISM AND VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE ROMAN
EMPIRE.
CHAPTER II. THE LITERARY TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY OVER GREEK AND ROMAN
HEATHENISM.
CHAPTER III. ALLIANCE OF CHURCH AND STATE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC
MORALS AND RELIGION.
CHAPTER IV. MONASTICISM.
CHAPTER V. THE HIERARCHY AND POLITY OF THE CHURCH.
CHAPTER VI. CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND SCHISMS.
CHAPTER VII. PUBLIC WORSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES.
CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTIAN ART.
CHAPTER IX. THEOLOGY. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECUMENICAL ORTHODOXY.
I. – The Trinitarian Controversies.
II. – The Origenistic Controversies.
III. – The Christological Controversies.
IV. – The Anthropological Controversies.
CHAPTER
X. CHURCH FATHERS, AND THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
I.—The Greek Fathers.
II.—The Latin Fathers.
List of Popes and Emporers.
Appendix.
Volume IV
MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIANITY
From Gregory I to Gregory
VII
A.D.
590–1073
————
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY
From
a. d.
590 –1517.
CHAPTER I. General Introduction to Mediaeval Church History
FOURTH PERIOD:
THE CHURCH AMONG THE
BARBARIANS
From Gregory I. To Gregory
VII.
A. D. 590 – 1049 (1073).
CHAPTER II. The Conversion of the Northern
and Western Barbarians.
I. The Conversion of England, Ireland, and
Scotland.
II. The Conversion of France, Germany, and
Adjacent Countries.
III. The Conversion of Scandanavis.
IV. The Christianization of the Slavs.
CHAPTER III. Mohammedanism in its Relation to Christianity.
CHAPTER IV. The Papal Hierarchy and the
Holy Roman Empire.
CHAPTER V. The Conflict of the Eastern and
Western Churches and Their Separation.
CHAPTER VI. Morals and Religion.
CHAPTER VII. Monasticism.
CHAPTER VIII. Church Discipline.
CHAPTER IX. Church and State.
CHAPTER X. Worship and Ceremonies.
CHAPTER XI. Doctrinal Controversies.
CHAPTER XII. Heretical Sects.
CHAPTER XIII. The State of Learning.
CHAPTER XIV. Biographical Sketches of
Ecclesiastical Writers.
Volume V
FROM GREGORY VII. TO BONIFACE
VIII. A. D. 1049–1294.
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER I. THE HILDEBRANDIAN POPES. A.D. 1049–1073.
CHAPTER II. GREGORY VII, 1073–1085.
CHAPTER III. THE PAPACY FROM THE DEATH OF GREGORY VII. TO THE CONCORDAT OF
WORMS. A.D. 1085–1122.
CHAPTER IV. THE PAPACY FROM THE CONCORDAT OF WORMS TO INNOCENT III. A.D.
1122–1198.
CHAPTER V. INNOCENT III. AND HIS AGE. A.D. 1198–1216.
CHAPTER VI. THE PAPACY FROM THE DEATH OF INNOCENT III. TO BONIFACE VIII.
1216–1294.
CHAPTER VII. THE CRUSADES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE MONASTIC ORDERS.
CHAPTER IX. MISSIONS.
CHAPTER X. HERESY AND ITS SUPPRESSION.
CHAPTER XI. UNIVERSITIES AND CATHEDRALS.
CHAPTER XII. SCHOLASTIC AND MYSTIC THEOLOGY.
CHAPTER XIII. SCHOLASTICISM AT ITS HEIGHT.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SACRAMENTAL SYSTEM.
CHAPTER XV. POPE AND CLERGY.
CHAPTER XVI. POPULAR WORSHIP AND SUPERSTITION.
Volume VI
FROM BONIFACE VIII. TO
MARTIN LUTHER. A.D. 1294–1517.
The Sixth Period of Church
History.
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER I. THE DECLINE OF THE PAPACY AND THE AVIGNON EXILE. A.D.
1294–1377.
CHAPTER II. THE PAPAL SCHISM AND THE REFORMATORY COUNCILS. 1378–1449.
CHAPTER III. LEADERS OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT.
CHAPTER IV. THE GERMAN MYSTICS.
CHAPTER V. REFORMERS BEFORE THE REFORMATION.
CHAPTER VI. THE LAST POPES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 1447–1521
CHAPTER VII. HERESY AND WITCHCRAFT.
CHAPTER VIII. THE RENAISSANCE.
CHAPTER IX. THE PULPIT AND POPULAR PIETY.
CHAPTER X. THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Volume VII
HISTORY OF
THE
REFORMATION.
1517 – 1648.
Preface
CHAPTER I. ORIENTATION. mediaeval and
modern christianity
FIRSTBOOK.
THE GERMAN REFORMATION
TILL THE DIET OF AUGSBURG, 1517–1530.
CHAPTER II. LUTHER’S TRAINING FOR THE REFORMATION, (l483–1517).
CHAPTER III. THE GERMAN REFORMATION FROM THE PUBLICATION OF LUTHER’S
THESES TO THE DIET OF WORMS, (1517–1521).
CHAPTER IV. THE GERMAN REFORMATION FROM THE DIET OF WORMS TO THE PEASANTS’
WAR, (1521–1525).
CHAPTER V. THE INNER DEVELOPMENT OF THE REFORMATION FROM THE
PEASANTS’ WAR TO THE DIET OF AUGSBURG,
(1525–1530).
CHAPTER VI. PROPAGATION AND PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTISM.
CHAPTER VII. THE SACRAMENTARIAN CONTROVERSIES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE POLITICAL SITUATION BETWEEN 1526 AND 1529.
CHAPTER IX. THE DIET AND CONFESSION OF AUGSBURG. (1530).
Volume VIII
SECOND BOOK.
THE SWISS REFORMATION.
Preface
CHAPTER I. introduction.
CHAPTER II. zwingli's training. a.d.
1484-1519.
CHAPTER III. the reformation in zürich.
1519–1526.
CHAPTER IV. spread of the reformation in
german switzerland and the grisons.
CHAPTER V. the civil and religious war
between the roman catholic and reformed cantons.
CHAPTER VI. the period of consolidation.
THIRD BOOK.
THE REFORMATION IN FRENCH
SWITZERLAND, OR THE CALVINISTIC MOVEMENT.
CHAPTER VII. the preparatory work. from
1526 to 1536.
CHAPTER VIII. john calvin and his work.
CHAPTER IX. from france to switzerland.
1509-1536.
CHAPTER X. calvin's first sojourn and
labors in geneva. 1536-1538.
CHAPTER XI. calvin in germany. from 1538 to
1541.
CHAPTER XII. calvin's second sojourn and
labors in geneva. 1541-1564.
CHAPTER XIII. constitution and discipline
of the church of geneva.
CHAPTER XIV. the theology of calvin.
CHAPTER XV. doctrinal controversies.
CHAPTER XVI. servetus: his life, trial, and
execution.
CHAPTER XVII. calvin abroad.
CHAPTER XVIII. closing scenes in the life
of calvin.
CHAPTER XIX. theodore beza.
Appendix.
* Schaff, Philip, History of
the Christian Church. This material has been carefully compared,
corrected¸ and emended (according to the 1910 edition of Charles Scribner's
Sons) by The Electronic Bible Society, Dallas, TX, 1998.
