This book organizes large amounts of information from the history of the church for greater understanding and ease of reference.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Overview and General Charts
• 1. A Timeline of Church History
• 2. The Parallel Structures of Systematic Theology and Church History
• 3. The Pendulum Effect in Church History
• 4. Divine Sovereignty and Free Will–The Debate through the Centuries
• 5. The Popes Recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
• 6. Branches of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• 7. Major Styles of Church Architecture
• 8. Great Hymn Writers
• The Ancient Church (to 476)
• 9. A Timeline of the Ancient Church (30-476)
• 10. The Twelve Disciples and Paul after the Death of Jesus
• 11. Early Symbols of Christianity
• 12. Worship in the Early Church
• 13. The Apostolic Fathers and Early Writings
• 14. The Second-Century Apologists
• 15. The Arguments of the Apologists
• 16. The Third-Century Church Fathers
• 17. The Development of the New Testament Canon
• 18. Books Debated for Inclusion in the New Testament Canon
• 19. Ante-Nicene Heresies
• 20. Roman Persecutions of Christians
• 21. Niceneand Post-Nicene Fathers
• 22. Development of Episcopacy in the First Five Centuries
• 23. Factors Contributing to the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome
• 24. Major Ancient Church Doctrinal Controversies
• 25. Ancient Church Trinitarian Heresies
• 26. Ancient Church Christological Heresies
• 27. The Pelagian Controversy
• 28. The Ecumenical Councils of the Early Church
• 29. Monasticism in the Ancient Church
• 30. Women in the Ancient Church
• The Medieval Church (476-1517)
• 31. A Timeline of the Medieval Church (c. 500–1500)
• 32. The Conversion of the Barbarian Tribes
• 33. Church and State in the Byzantine Empire (c. 500-1453)
• 34. Church and State in the West (754-1309)
• 35. The Iconoclastic Controversy
• 36. Early Medieval Church Leaders
• 37. The Primary Causes of the East-West Schism of 1054
• 38. The Crusades
• 39. The Muslim Conquest and the Crusades–A Comparison
• 40. The Theology of Scholasticism
• 41. Arguments for the Existence of God–The Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas
• 42. Major Monastic Orders
• 43. Medieval Mysticism
• 44. Women in the Middle Ages
• 45. Medieval Dissenters and Heretical Groups
• 46. The Great Schism of the Papacy (1378-1417)
• 47. Medieval Ecumenical Councils
• 48. Forerunners of the Reformation
• The Reformation (1517-1648)
• 49. A Timeline of the Reformation in Germany (1517-1648)
• 50. A Timeline of the Reformation in Switzerland (1519–1575)
• 51. A Timeline of the Reformation in France (c.1510–1685)
• 52. A Timeline of the Reformation in England and Scotland (c. 1530–1688)
• 53. A Timeline of the Reformation in the Netherlands (c. 1530–1648)
• 54. A Timeline of the Catholic Reformation (c. 1500-1648)
• 55. Four Major Reformers
• 56. Other German Reformers
• 57. Other Swiss Reformers
• 58. The Radical Reformation
• 59. Italian Renaissance Figures and Their Relationship to the Church
• 60. Northern Renaissance Figures and Their Relationship to the Church
• 61. The English Reformers
• 62. Church and State in Tudor England
• 63. The English Puritans
• 64. Church and State in Stuart England
• 65. Leaders of the French Huguenots
• 66. Church and State in France (1515-1589)
• 67. Protestant Creeds of the Reformation Era
• 68. Leaders of the Catholic Counterreformation
• 69. Religious Wars of the Reformation
• 70. Theological Issues–Protestant versus Catholic
• 71. Theological Issues–Lutheran versus Reformed
• 72. Theological Issues–Calvinist versus Arminian
• 73. A Family Tree of Protestant Denominational Groups
• The Modern Church (from 1648)
• 74. A Timeline of the Modern Church in Britain (from 1688)
• 75. A Timeline of the Modern Church in Germany (from 1648)
• 76. A Timeline of the Modern Church in France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands (from 1648)
• 77. Leaders in the Development of Science and Their Relationship to the Church
• 78. English Deism and Its Opponents
• 79. Church and State in France (1589-1814)
• 80. German Pietism and English Methodism–A Comparison
• 81. John Wesley and George Whitefield–A Contrast
• 82. Other European Revivals
• 83. Evangelical Social Reformers in England
• 84. Major Figures in German Liberal Theology
• 85. Other Prominent Figures in European Theology
• 86. Prominent Protestant Missionaries
• 87. Prominent Roman Catholic Missionaries
• 88. Major Indigenous Christian Religious Movements in Africa
• 89. Modern Roman Catholic Ecumenical Councils
• 90. Forerunners of Pentecostalism
• 91. The Growth and Development of the World Council of Churches
• 92. Translations of the Bible into English
• 93. Notable Protestant Historians of the Church
• The American Church (from 1607)
• 94. A Timeline of the Church in the American Colonies (1607-1776)
• 95. A Timeline of the Church in the United States (from 1776)
• 96. Religion in the Thirteen Colonies
• 97. Religious Utopian Communities in America
• 98. The American Puritans
• 99. Leaders of the First Great Awakening
• 100. Religious Influences Supporting the American Revolution
• 101. Religious Influences Opposed to the American Revolution
• 102. Leaders of the Second Great Awakening
• 103. A Comparison of the First and Second Great Awakenings
• 104. Major Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Social Reform Movements
• 105. Denominational Schisms over Slavery
• 106. Black Denominations in the United States
• 107. Major Nineteenth-Century American Cults
• 108. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Parachurch Organizations
• 109. Nineteenth-Century American Theologians and Preachers
• 110. Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Revivalists
• 111. Key Figures in the Dissemination of Dispensationalism in America
• 112. A Comparison of Historic Covenant and Historic Dispensational Theology
• 113. Denominational Divisions over the Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy
• 114. Key Figures in the Twentieth-Century Presbyterian Schisms
• 115. Twentieth-Century American Theologians and Preachers
• 116. Leading Figures of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
• 117. Pentecostals and Charismatics–A Comparison
• 118. An American Presbyterian Family Tree
• 119. An American Baptist Family Tree
• 120. An American Lutheran Family Tree
• 121. An American Episcopal Family Tree
• 122. An American Methodist Family Tree
• 123. An American Reformed and Congregationalist Family Tree
• 124. An American Pentecostal Family Tree
• 125. An American Mennonite Family Tree
• 126. An American Adventist Family Tree
• Bibliography