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v. 1. The Early Church to the dawn of the Reformation -- The fullness of time -- The Church in Jerusalem -- Mission to the Gentiles -- First conflicts with the state -- Persecution in the second century -- The defense of the faith -- The deposit of the faith -- The teachers of the Church -- Persecution in the third century -- Christian life -- The Great Persecution and the final victory -- Constantine --- Official theology: Eusebius fo Caesarea -- The monastic reaction -- The schismatic reaction: Donatism -- The Arian controversy and the Council of Nicea -- The Pagan reaction: Julian the Apostate -- Athanasius of Alexandria -- The Great Cappadocians -- Ambrose of Milan -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Augustine of Hippo -- Beyond the Borders of the Empire -- The end of an era -- The new order -- Eastern Christianity -- Imperial restoration and continuing decay -- Movements of renewal -- The offensive against Islam -- The Golden Age of Medieval Christianity -- The collapse -- In quest of Reformation -- Renaissance and humanism -- Spain and the New World -- The Portuguese enterprise --

v. 2. The Reformation to the present day -- The call for Reformation -- Martin Luther: pilgrimage to Reformation -- An uncertain decade -- Luther's theology -- Ulrich Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- John Calvin -- The Reformation in Great Britain -- Further developments within Lutheranism -- The Reformation in the Low Countries -- Protestantism in France -- The Catholic Reformation -- Protestantism at the edges -- A convulsed age -- An age of dogma and doubt -- The Thirty Years' War -- The Church of the desert -- The Puritan Reformation -- Catholic Orthodoxy -- Lutheran Orthodoxy -- Reformed Orthodoxy -- The rationalist option -- The spiritualist option -- The pietist option -- The thirteen colonies -- An age beyond Christendom -- A shifting landscape: the United States -- A shifting landscape: Western Europe -- A shifting landscape: Latin America -- A shifting landscape: Eastern Christianity -- Protestant theology -- Catholicism in the face of modernity -- Geographic expansion -- Roman Catholic Christianity -- Crisis at the center: Protestantism in Europe -- Crisis at the center: Protestantism in the United States -- Vitality at the periphery -- A global history