History of Church

Contents: Preface. 1. History of modern church. 2. Christian conception: arise in our society. 3. Churches of the American immigrants and frontier. 4. Beginning of French Christianity in the America. 5. Eastern Orthodoxy: History and evolution. 6. "Catholic Action". 7. Younger churches and its growth. 8. Significance of Roman Church and the Catholic princes. 9. Enlightenment Christianity. 10. Reformed churches and the states. 11. Reformed traditions, Anglicanism and Free Church. 12. Pietism and evangelicalism. 13. Christianity: doctrine of non-resistance to evil by force. 14. Age of the enlightenment in Christianity. 15. Missionary enterprise in Christianity. 16. Missionaries, mystics and martyrs in Christianity. 17. Christianity in the eighteenth century: Southern and Caribbean. 18. Expanding but changing church in Christianity. 19. Roman Catholic Theological Liberalism. 20. Criticisms of the doctrine of non-resistance to evil by force. 21. Misunderstanding of Christianity. Bibliography Index.

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