History of the world Christian movement. / Dale T. Irvin, Scott W. Sunquist.
| Author/creator | Irvin, Dale T., 1955- author. |
| Other author | Sunquist, Scott W. (Scott William), 1953- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2001] |
| Description | 1 online resource (519 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Earliest Christianity to 1453 |
| Contents | Part one. Into all the world: beginnings of the world Christian movement. The civilizations and cultures of the world -- Judaism at the time of Jesus -- Christina beginnings: the Jesus movement. |
| Contents | Part two. Diverse trajectories of the early Christian movement. Apostolic memory in several gospels -- The early Christian movement in Syria and Mesopotamia -- In Greece and Asia Minor -- In the Western Mediterranean -- In Alexandria and Egypt -- "Every foreign land". |
| Contents | Part three. The Great Church takes shape. The Great Church emerges -- Gnostics, Catholics, and Manicheans -- Christians, Jews, and Israel's heritage of monotheism -- Spiritual currents and social life across cultures. |
| Contents | Part four. The age of the imperial church: affirmations and dissent (c.300 to c.600). The conversion of Constantine and the making of an imperial church -- Donatists and Catholics: a struggle over holiness and unity in Roman North Africa -- The Arian-Nicene controversy and the making of Orthodoxy -- The road to Chalcedon and christological diversity -- The Christian movement in the East: Syria and the emergence of a Persian National Church -- Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia -- Roman and Latin churches in the West -- The age of Justinian and Theodora in the Eastern Roman Empire. |
| Contents | Part five. New challenges, new beginnings, 600 to 1000. The land of Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, and the rise of Islam -- The Christian movement and the Islamic Caliphate: Syria and Persia -- The Christian movement in Africa and Spain -- Expansion of the Christian movement in India, Central Asia, and China -- The making of Christendom in the West -- Monasticism in the West -- Christianity in the East Roman Empire -- Christian expansion northward. |
| Contents | Part six. new political horizon, 1000 to 1453. Controversy and crisis in Christendom -- Christendom and crusade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Spiritual renewal in Western Christendom, 1100-1300 -- Intellectual renewal in Western Christendom, 1100-1300 -- Byzantium in the thirteenth century -- Christianity in Asia under the Mongols -- Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia -- Western Christendom, 1300-1450 -- The Christian movement in the East until 1453. |
| Abstract | Traces the development of Christianity from its origins up to the mid-fifteenth century. In place of conventional Eurocentric treatments, this work assigns a rightful place to the peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Near East in the unfolding of Christianity, a religion constantly evolving in dialogue with new cultures, new questions, and new historical influences. --From publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Irvin, Dale T., 1955- History of the world Christian movement. Volume I, Earliest Christianity to 1453. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2001] 9781570753961 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781608332434 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1608332438 (electronic bk.) |