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SCM Core Text: Modern Church History

[Paperback]

by Timothy Grass

    • Author

      Timothy Grass

    • Book Format

      paperback

    • Publisher

      SCM

    • Published

      March 2008

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      Product Description

      Provides an introduction to global Christianity from 1700 to the mid 20th C. This book aims to help students understand the processes, movements and individuals who have contributed to making the contemporary Christian landscape the shape it is in the 21st century. It also summarizes the developments within the Christian Church in the UK.

      1 Introduction
      About this book
      Key themes in modern church history
      Global Christianity in 1648

      Part 1 (1648-1789)

      Timeline: World Events, 1648-1789

      2 European Protestantism after 1648
      The aftermath of war
      The state of the churches
      Reaction against confessionalization (i): Pietism
      Reaction against confessionalization (ii): Deism and the Enlightenment

      3 Roman Catholicism
      The eighteenth-century papacy
      The Church in the Baroque era
      Church and state in the pre-revolutionary period
      Hierarchy and clergy
      Catholic devotion
      Catholic mission

      4 The ‘Babylonian Captivity’ of the Eastern Churches
      East and West
      Russia
      Christianity under Ottoman rule

      5 The Churches in Britain, Ireland, and North America, 1688-1789
      Timeline: Events in Britain, Ireland, and North America, 1689-1789
      England and Wales
      Scotland
      Ireland
      Christianity in the New World

      6 The Rise of Evangelicalism
      What was Evangelicalism?
      The rise of Evangelicalism
      Evangelicalism and the churches
      The ‘Great Awakening’: early North American Evangelicalism

      Part 2 1789-1914

      Timeline: World Events, 1789-1914

      7 Orthodoxy
      Russia
      Ottoman domination and its legacy

      8 Rome, Revolution, and Reaction
      Revolution
      Reaction
      Popular piety

      9 European Protestantism during the Nineteenth Century
      The challenges of modern thought
      Biblical criticism
      Church and state
      Renewal movements

      10 The Churches in Nineteenth-Century Britain (I): Church and State in England and Wales
      Timeline: Events in Britain and Ireland, 1789-1914
      Roman Catholicism
      Anglicanism
      From Dissenters to Nonconfirmists to Free Churchmen

      11 The Churches in Nineteenth-Century Britain (II): Growth and Division
      The 1851 Religious Consensus
      The effectiveness of outreach
      The changing roles of women
      The growth of non-Anglican Christianity in Ireland
      Division and pluralism in Scotland

      12 Christianity in the United States
      The development of religious pluralism
      The churches and the black community
      Adapting to the American context
      Theological developments
      American religious creations

      13 Western Christian Social Thought to 1914
      Roman Catholic social teaching
      German and Scandinavian Protestantism responds to social need
      British Christian social thought
      The ‘Social Gospel’ in North America

      14 Nineteenth-Century Expansion Outside Europe
      Where did Christianity expand?
      The main types of agency
      The missionaries
      Missionary strategy
      Missions and colonization
      The emergence of indigenous churches
      Edinburgh 1910

      Part 3 1914 to the Present

      Timeline: 1914-2007

      15 The Impact of Two World Wars
      World War I and the churches
      The rise of Neo-Orthodoxy
      Christians, Jews, and Nazis in in inter-war Europe
      World War II, the Holocaust, and the churches

      16 The Eastern Churches from 1917
      Communism and its impact
      East and West
      The churches in the Middle East

      17 Christianity in the West - Change or Decline?
      Defining our terms
      The state of the churches
      Theological developments

      18 Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
      Pentecostal development
      The global spread of Pentecostalism
      The Charismatic Movement

      19 The Ecumenical movement
      Roots
      Global ecumenical organizations
      The World Council of Churches
      Changing conceptions of ecumenism and its goals
      Other approaches to ecumenism

      20 Twentieth-Century Roman Catholicism
      Papacy, church, and state
      Social and ethical thought before Vatican II
      Vatican II
      The Church since Vatican II

      21 The British Churches
      Timeline: Events in Britain, 1914-2007
      The churches and society
      Industrial developments
      Ecumenism
      New traditions
      Changes in worship

      22 Global Christianity
      The shift in the centre of Christian gravity away from the post-Christian West
      The churches and national identity
      The growth of regional theologies
      From missions to mission

      23 Conclusion

      Glossary
      Suggested Further Reading
      Index of Names and Subjects

      Specification

      • Author

        Timothy Grass

      • Book Format

        paperback

      • Publisher

        SCM

      • Published

        March 2008

      • Weight

        33g

      • Page Count

        400

      • Dimensions

        234 x 567 x 156 mm

      • ISBN

        9780334040620

      • ISBN-10

        0334040620

      • Eden Code

        1003011

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Timothy Grass

      • ISBN: 9780334040620

      • Publisher: SCM

      • Release Date: March 2008

      • Weight: 33g

      • Dimensions: 234 x 567 x 156 mm

      • Eden Code: 1003011


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