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