Christian Thought : A Historical Introduction (Hardcover, 3 ed)

Introduction??Part 1? Incubations and origins: the ancient period 500bce?70ce??1. The pre-history of Christian thought? 2. Jesus of Nazareth? 3.. The Apostle Paul: his thought and context? 4. The break from Judaism??Part 2? Definition and resistance: The Patristic period 70?500??5. Persecution of Christians? 6. Spirituality and asceticism: the desert fathers and mothers? 7. The Christian apologists: interacting with Gnosticism and other “heresies”? 8. The early Church councils: Christological controversy and definition? 9. Trinitarian debate??10. Formation of the New Testament canon? 11. Augustine: philosopher, theologian, and church father??Part 3? Establishment and diversification: the Medieval period 500?1500??12. Monasticism of the early Middle Ages? 13. Early Diversification and the East-West Schism? 14. Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard? 15. Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages? 16. Women and theology in the Middle Ages? 17. Thomas Aquinas? 18. Preparation for reform??Part 4? Protest and revolution: the Reformation period 1500?1700??19. Martin Luther? 20. The Reformed tradition? 21. Protesting against the Protestants: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation? 22. Reformation continues: the English and the Catholics??Part 5? Enlightenment and evolution: the Modern period 1700?2000 and beyond??23. The challenge of modernism? 24. Pietism and revivalism? 25. Romanticism's response to Enlightenment theology? 26. Neo-orthodoxy: Karl Barth and others? 27. Liberal Protestantism? 28. Major theological traditions and developments in the twentieth century? 29. Recent and emerging themes