Volume One#

  • Chapter 01: The Setting for the Story’s Beginning

  • Chapter 02: Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church

  • Chapter 03: The Subapostolic Age

  • Chapter 04: The Church and the Empire

  • Chapter 05: Heresies and Schisms in the Second Century

  • Chapter 06: The Defense against Rival Interpretations

  • Chapter 07: The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems

  • Chapter 08: Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries

  • Chapter 09: Development of the Church during the Third Century

  • Chapter 10: Diocletian and Constantine: One the Threshold of the Fourth Century

  • Chapter 11: The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature

  • Chapter 12: The Church in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries: Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship

  • Chapter 13: Christological Controversies to Chalcedon (451)

  • Chapter 14: Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism

  • Chapter 15: Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy

  • Chapter 16: Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries

  • Chapter 17: The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries

  • Chapter 18: The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries

  • Chapter 19: Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries

  • Chapter 20: The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade

  • Chapter 21: Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism

  • Chapter 22: Monastic, Literary, Cultural, and Political Activities in the Twelfth Century

  • Chapter 23: The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century

  • Chapter 24: Portents of Decline General Bibliography