Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. THE EMERGENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

Timeline c. 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E.
 1. Judaism in Various Forms: An Ambivalent Inheritance. 2. Literature of the Early Church: Texts as Preservers of Experience. 3. Roman Power and Religion: Divine Destinies in Conflict. 4. Worship in the Early Church: A Case Study in Adaptation.

II. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUITY.

Timeline 400-800 C.E.
 5. The Emergence of Hierarchy: Papal Beginnings. 6. The Flourishing of Liturgy: Devotion Through Ritual and Imagery. 7. The Monastic Microcosm: The Benedictine Norm and Reform. 8. The Expansion of the Church: First Missionary Movements and the Crusades.

III. MEDIEVAL WESTERN CHRISTIAN CULTURE.

Timeline 800-1500 C.E.
 9. Carolingian Culture and Religion: A Medieval Renaissance. 10. Scholasticism: From Anselm to Aquinas. 11. The Church and the Law: The Investiture Controversy. 12. The Mendicant Orders and Lay Movements: New Forms of Religious Life. 13. Scholasticism and Salvation: The Sacramental System. 14. Spirituality and Mystical Experience: Medieval Mystics.

IV. FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN: FROM ONE CHURCH, MANY.

Timeline 1500-1700 C.E.
 15. Launching the Reformation: Martin Luther's Revolution. 16. Development of the Reformation: The Spread of Protestantism. 17. Protestant Orthodoxy: Developments in Scholasticism. 18. Reformation-Era Catholicism: Reaction and New Religious Orders. 19. The Challenge of Rationalism: Skepticism and Faith in the 17th Century. 20. Early American Religion: Between Reformation and Enlightenment.

V. FROM ENLIGHTMENT TO MODERNITY.

Timeline 1700-1900 C.E.
 21. Enlightenment Religion: Adaptations in an Age of Progress. 22. The Dawn of Modern Religion: The West and Its Missions. 23. Challenges to the English Church: The Oxford Movement and Evolution. 24. Nineteenth-Century America: Religious Diversity and Revivalism. 25. Roman Catholicism: Confronting the Modern World.

VI. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND.

Timeline 1900-Present.
 26. Social Christianity: The Dawn of the 20th Century. 27. The Crisis of War: The Recovery of Orthodoxy. 28. Ecumenical Initiatives: The World Council of Churches and Vatican II. 29. Mainstreams and Margins: Colonialism and Liberation Theology. 30. Christianity at the Dawn of the Third Millenium.Maps.Bibliography.Literary Credits.Picture Credits.Index.