Christian thought : a historical introduction / Chad Meister and J.B. Stump.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Christian thought (2017)
Main Authors: Meister, Chad V., 1965- (Author)
Stump, J. B., 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Church history.
Theology > History.
Theology.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Incubations and origins : the ancient period, 500 BCE-70 CE. The pre-history of Christian thought
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • The Apostle Paul : his thought and context
  • The break from Judaism
  • Definition and resistance : the Patristic period, 70-451. Persecution of Christians
  • Spirituality and asceticism : the desert fathers and mothers
  • The Christian apologists : interacting with gnosticism and other "heresies"
  • The early church councils : Christological controversy and definition
  • Trinitarian debate
  • Formation of the New Testament canon
  • Augustine : philosopher, theologian, and church father
  • Establishment and diversification : the medieval period, 500-1500. Monasticism of the early Middle Ages
  • Eastern Christianity splits from the West
  • Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard
  • Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages
  • Women and theology in the Middle Ages
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Preparation for reform
  • Protest and revolution : the Reformation period, 1500-1700. Martin Luther
  • The Reformed tradition
  • Protesting against the Protestants : Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation
  • Reformation continues : the English and the Catholics
  • Enlightenment and evolution : the modern period, 1700-2000. The challenge of modernism
  • Pietism and revivalism
  • Romanticism's response to Enlightenment theology
  • Neo-orthodoxy : Karl Barth and others
  • Liberal Protestantism
  • Major theological traditions and developments in the twentieth century
  • Recent and emerging themes.