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The History of Christianity [A Lion handbook]

by Tim Dowley

Expansion of the Church - 325-600 conquest - Constantine and the Christian Empire - Fall of the Roman Empire - 600-1500, a Christian society - The Eastern Church - The Crusades - Peter Abelard - Thomas Aquinas - Medieval monasticism - Reform, 1500-1650 - Martin Luther - John Calvin - Puritans and Separatists - John Bunyan - The English Baptists - The Anabaptists - Ignatius of Loyola - The Jesuits - Teresa of Avila - The Russian church - James de Jong - 1789-1914, cities and empires - An age of idealogy - Pentecostals - Helder Camara - Pope John XXIII - Protestant religions - Religion in wartime Germany (Nazi) - The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe & Russia - The Russian tradition of Icons - Icon painters Andrei Rublev & Daniel Chorney.a; - Savonarola - The Monk's Day in Western Europe - Martin Luther - History of Bibles - Puritans - Thomas Cranmer - Methodists.

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