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
