Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

A brief history of Christianity /

Lindberg, Carter, 1937-

A brief history of Christianity / Carter Lindberg. - Oxford : Blackwell, 2006. - p. cm. - Blackwell brief histories of religion . - Blackwell brief histories of religion .

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity -- "The law of praying is the law of believing" -- Sibling rivalry : heresy, orthodoxy, and the ecumenical councils -- The heavenly city : the Augustinian synthesis of biblical religion and Hellenism -- The development of the Medieval papacy -- Faith in search of understanding : Anselm, Abelard, and the beginnings of scholasticism -- The Medieval church -- The Reformations of the sixteenth century -- Pietism and the Enlightenment -- Challenge and response : the church in the nineteenth century -- The Christian churches since World War I.

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Church history.

BR145.3 / .L56 2006

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