Description
For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Introduction to Theology, Christianity or History of the Christian Tradition.
This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, God, creation, Jesus, and church.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Catherine Cory, Terence Nichols, David Smith, and Jan Michael Joncas
Part I - The Old Testament
Catherine Cory and John Smithe
Chapter 2 - The Primeval Story
John Smithe and David Penchansky
Chapter 3 - God’s Covenant with Israel
David Smith and Catherine Cory
Chapter 4 - Judges, Prophets, Kings
David Penchansky and John Smithe
Chapter 5 - Second Temple Judaism
John Smithe
Part II - The New Testament
Catherine Cory
Chapter 6 - Jesus and the Gospels
Catherine Cory
Chapter 7 - Apostolic Missions
John Smithe and Catherine Cory
Part III - The History of Christianity
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 8 - Christianity after the Apostles
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 9 - The Age of the Imperial Church
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 10 - Augustine of Hippo
David Hunter
Chapter 11 - Eastern Christianity
Jan Michael Joncas
Chapter 12 -Islam Past and Present
Patrick Gaffney
Chapter 13 - Christianity in the Early Medieval Period
Jan Michael Joncas
Chapter 14 - Christianity in the High Middle Ages
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 15 - Thomas Aquinas
David Smith
Chapter 16 - Christianity in the Late Medieval Period
Anne H. King
Part IV - The Modern Period
Terence Nichols
Chapter 17 - The Renaissance
Terence Nichols
Chapter 18 - Martin Luther
Shirley E. Jordon
Chapter 19 - Other Protestant Reformers
David S. Cunningham
Chapter 20 -The Catholic Reformation
Anne H. King
Chapter 21 -Global Expansion and the Colonial Churches
Thaddeus Posey
Chapter 22 - Modern Challenges to Christianity
Terence Nichols
Chapter 23 - Christianity in America
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 24 - The Second Vatican Council in Context
Michael Hollerich
Chapter 25 - Christianity and the Contemporary Situation
Catherine Cory, Terence Nichols, David Smith, and David S.Cunningham
Chapter 26 - Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue
Edward Ulrich
Glossary
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index
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