A History of Christian Thought in One Volume

by Justo L Gonzalez

Overview

In this revised and updated version of his popular history, Justo González retains the essential elements of his earlier three volumes as he describes the central figures and debates leading to the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. Then he moves to Augustine and shows how Christianity evolved and was understood in the Latin West and Byzantine East during the Middle Ages. Finally, he introduces the towering theological leaders of the Reformation and continues to trace the development of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christianities through modernity in the twentieth century to postmodernity in the twenty-first.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426757778
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	03/18/2014
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Justo L. Gonzalez has taught at the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico and Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He is the author of many books, including Church History: An Essential Guide and To All Nations From All Nations, both published by Abingdon Press. Justo L. Gonzalez es un ampliamente leido y respetado historiador y teologo. Es el autor de numerosas obras que incluyen tres volumenes de su Historia del Pensamiento Cristiano, la coleccion de Tres Meses en la Escuela de... (Mateo... Juan... Patmos... Prision... Espiritu), Breve Historia de las Doctrinas Cristianas y El ministerio de la palabra escrita, todas publicadas por Abingdon Press.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Introduction vii

Part 1 From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon

1 The Cradle of Christianity 3

2 The Theology of the Apostolic Fathers 13

3 The Greek Apologists 25

4 The Early Heresies: Challenge and Response 33

5 The Great Theologians of the Early Church 45

6 Theology in the Third Century 71

7 The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea 83

8 The Theology Surrounding Nicea 95

9 The Christological Controversies 110

10 Apostolic or Apostate? 123

Part 2 Medieval Theology

11 The Theology of Augustine 127

12 Western Theology after Augustine 141

13 Eastern Theology between the Fourth and the Sixth Ecumenical Councils 148

14 The Carolingian Renaissance 158

15 The Twelfth Century: Darkness Dissipates 166

16 Eastern Theology after the Islamic Conquests 180

17 The Thirteenth Century 191

18 Theology in the Later Middle Ages 204

19 Dawn or Dusk? 214

Part 3 From the Reformation to the Present

20 The End of an Era 219

21 The Theology of Martin Luther 227

22 Ulrich Zwingli and the Beginning of the Reformed Tradition 238

23 Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation 243

24 The Reformed Theology of John Calvin 251

25 The English Reformation 265

26 Theology in the Catholic Reformation 271

27 Protestant Orthodoxy and Pietist Reaction 285

28 Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century 309

29 Roman Catholic Theology to the First World War 322

30 Eastern Theology after the Fall of Constantinople 328

31 Theology in the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First 333

A Final Overview 347

Index 349