Church History

About this eBook

Author

Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich), 1809-1890

Title

Church History (Volumes 1-3)

Credits

Produced by Jon Ingram, Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Church history

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51491

Release Date

March 17, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHURCH HISTORY.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.NOTE BY TRANSLATOR. — INTRODUCTION. — HISTORY OF THE PREPARATION FOR CHRISTIANITY. The pre-Christian World preparing the way of the Christian Church. — THE HISTORY OF THE BEGINNINGS. The Founding of the Church by Christ and His Apostles. — I. THE LIFE OF JESUS. — II. THE APOSTOLIC AGE. A.D. 30-70.
5. 5.FIRST DIVISION. History of the Development of the Church during the Græco-Roman and Græco-Byzantine Periods. — FIRST SECTION. History of the Græco-Roman Church during the Second and Third Centuries ( A.D. 70-323). 18 — I. THE RELATIONSHIP OF EXTRA-CHRISTIAN PAGANISM AND JUDAISM TO THE CHURCH. 21 — II. DANGER TO THE CHURCH FROM PAGAN AND JEWISH ELEMENTS WITHIN ITS OWN PALE. — III. THE DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT AND APOLOGETICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH. 52 — 1. Church Fathers Writing in Greek. — 2. Church Fathers Writing in Latin. — IV. CONSTITUTION, WORSHIP, LIFE AND DISCIPLINE. 94 — SECOND SECTION. The History of the Græco-Roman Church from the 4th-7th centuries. A.D. 323-692. — I. CHURCH AND STATE. — II. MONASTICISM, CLERICALISM AND HIERARCHISM. — III. THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. — 1. THE MOST IMPORTANT TEACHERS OF THE EASTERN CHURCH. — 2. THE MOST IMPORTANT TEACHERS OF THE WESTERN CHURCH. — IV. DOCTRINAL CONTROVERSIES AND HERESIES. — V. WORSHIP, LIFE, DISCIPLINE AND MORALS. — VI. THE CHURCH OUTSIDE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 185 — THIRD SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GRÆCO-BYZANTINE CHURCH IN THE 8 TH -15 TH CENTURIES ( A.D. 692-1453). — I. Developments of the Greek Church in Combination with the Western. — II. Developments in the Eastern Church without the Co-operation of the Western.
6. 6.SECOND DIVISION. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN AND ROMAN CHURCH DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. 198 — FIRST SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GERMAN-ROMAN CHURCH FROM THE 4 TH TO THE 9 TH CENTURY (DOWN TO A.D. 911). — I. Founding, Spread, and Limitation of the German Church. 199 — II. THE HIERARCHY, THE CLERGY AND THE MONKS. — III. THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE. — IV. THEOLOGY AND ITS BATTLES. — SECOND SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GERMANO-ROMANIC CHURCH, FROM THE 10 TH TO THE 13 TH CENTURY. A.D. 911-1294. — I. The Spread of Christianity. — II.―The Hierarchy, the Clergy, and the Monks. — III. Theological Science and its Controversies. — IV. The Church and the People. — V. Heretical Opposition to Ecclesiastical Authority. — THIRD SECTION. HISTORY OF THE GERMANO-ROMANIC CHURCH IN THE 14th AND 15th CENTURIES ( A.D. 1294-1517). — I. The Hierarchy, Clergy, and Monks. — II. Theological Science. — III. The Church and the People. — IV. Attempts at Reformation.
7. 7.THIRD DIVISION. History of the Development of the Church under Modern European Forms of Civilization. — FIRST SECTION. CHURCH HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — I. The Reformation. 360 — II. The Churches of the Reformation. — III. The Deformation. — IV. The Counter-Reformation. — SECOND SECTION. CHURCH HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — I. Relations between the Different Churches. — II. The Roman Catholic Church. — III. The Lutheran Church. — IV. The Reformed Church. — V. Anti- and Extra-Ecclesiastical Parties. — THIRD SECTION. CHURCH HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 492 — I. The Catholic Church in East and West. — II. The Protestant Churches. — FOURTH SECTION. CHURCH HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. — I. General and Introductory. — II. Protestantism in General. 526 — III. Catholicism in General. — IV. Relation of Church to the Empire and to the States. — V. Opponents of Church and of Christianity.
8. 8.INDEX.
9. 9.Footnotes.
10. 10.Transcriber’s Notes.

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