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Christianity An Introduction 3rd Table of contents:

1. Jesus of Nazareth and the Origins of Christianity

• The Significance of Jesus of Nazareth for Christianity
• The Sources of Our Knowledge about Jesus of Nazareth
• Jesus of Nazareth in His Jewish Context
• The Gospels and Jesus of Nazareth
• The Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
• The Early Ministry of Jesus of Nazareth
• The Teaching of Jesus of Nazareth: The Parables of the Kingdom
• The Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
• The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth
• Events and Meanings: The Interpretation of the History of Jesus
• The New Testament Understandings of the Significance of Jesus
• Jesus of Nazareth and Women
• The Reception of Jesus of Nazareth outside Judaism

2. The Christian Bible

• The Old Testament
• Major Themes of the Old Testament
• The creation
• Abraham: Calling and covenant
• The exodus and the giving of the Law
• The establishment of the monarchy
• The priesthood
• Prophecy
• Exile and restoration
• The New Testament
• The gospels
• The New Testament letters
• The fixing of the New Testament canon
• The Christian Understanding of the Relation of the Old and New Testaments
• The Translation of the Bible
• The Bible and Tradition

3. Christian Creeds and Beliefs

• The Emergence of Creeds
• What Is Faith?
• Faith and reason
• Can God’s existence be proved?
• The Christian Understanding of God
• Christian analogies for God
• God as Father
• A personal God
• God as almighty
• God as spirit
• The doctrine of the Trinity
• God as the creator
• The Christian Understanding of Humanity
• Humanity and the “image of God”
• Humanity, the fall, and sin
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Early Christian approaches to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth
• The Arian controversy and the incarnation
• The incarnation: The Chalcedonian definition
• Jesus of Nazareth as mediator between God and humanity
• Islamic criticisms of the Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth
• The Christian Understanding of Salvation
• New Testament images of salvation
• Christ the victor: The defeat of death and sin
• Christ the harrower of hell: Atonement as restoration
• Christ the redeemer: Atonement as satisfaction
• The death of Christ as a perfect sacrifice
• Christ the lover: Atonement and the enkindling of love
• Salvation and the “threefold office of Christ”
• Grace
• The Pelagian controversy of the fifth century
• The Reformation debates of the sixteenth century
• The Church
• The unity of the church
• The holiness of the church
• The catholicity of the church
• The apostolicity of the church
• The Sacraments
• What is a sacrament?
• The function of sacraments
• Debates about baptism
• Debates about the eucharist
• The Christian Hope
• The New Testament and Christian hope
• The nature of the resurrection body
• Christian burial or cremation?

4. Christian History: An Overview

• The Early Church, c. 100–c. 500
• The apostolic age
• Early Christianity and the Roman empire
• Early Christian worship and organization
• Women and early Christianity
• The conversion of the Emperor Constantine
• The cities and the rise of monasticism
• The fall of the Roman empire
• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c. 500–c. 1500
• The development of Celtic Christianity
• The rise of the monastic and cathedral schools
• The “Great Schism” between East and West (1054)
• The crusades: Spain and the Middle East
• Academic theology: The rise of scholasticism
• Secular and religious power in the Middle Ages
• Popular religion: The cult of the saints
• The rise of the Ottoman empire: The fall of Constantinople (1453)
• The rebirth of western culture: The Renaissance
• Competing Visions of Reform, c. 1500–c. 1650
• Christian expansion: Portuguese and Spanish voyages of discovery
• The Lutheran Reformation
• The Calvinist Reformation
• The Radical Reformation (Anabaptism)
• The Catholic Reformation
• The Reformation in England
• The Council of Trent
• The Society of Jesus
• The Wars of Religion
• Puritanism in England and America
• A Protestant religion of the heart: Pietism
• American Protestantism and the Great Awakening
• The Modern Period, c. 1650–1914
• The rise of indifference to religion in Europe
• The Enlightenment: The rise of rationalism
• Christianity in the American Revolution
• Church and state in America: The “wall of separation”
• The French Revolution and “dechristianization”
• Orthodox resurgence: The Greek War of Independence
• A new expansion of Christianity: The age of mission
• The shifting fortunes of Catholicism
• The First Vatican Council: Papal infallibility
• Theological revisionism: The challenge of modernism
• The Victorian crisis of faith
• Pentecostalism: The American origins of a global faith
• The Twentieth Century, 1914 to the Present
• The Armenian genocide of 1915
• The Russian Revolution of 1917
• America: The fundamentalist controversy
• The German church crisis of the 1930s
• The 1960s: The emergence of a post-Christian Europe
• The Second Vatican Council: Reform and revitalization
• Christianity and the American Civil Rights Movement
• Faith renewed: John Paul II and the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Challenging the church’s establishment: Feminism and liberation theology
• Christianity beyond the West: The globalization of faith

5. Denominations: Contemporary Forms of Christianity

• Catholicism
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Protestantism
• Anglicanism
• The Baptists
• Lutheranism
• Methodism
• Presbyterianism and other reformed denominations
• Pentecostalism
• Evangelicalism
• The Ecumenical Movement and the World Council of Churches
• The Erosion of Protestant Denominationalism in the United States

6. The Life of Faith: Christianity as a Living Reality

• Gateways to Exploring the Life of Faith
• Christian Communities: The Life of the Church
• Christian weddings
• Christian funerals
• The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
• Christian Worship
• Prayer
• Praise
• The public reading of the Bible
• Preaching
• The reciting of the creeds
• The Sacraments
• Baptism
• The eucharist
• Rhythms and Seasons: The Christian Year
• Advent
• Christmas
• Epiphany
• Lent
• Holy Week
• Easter
• Ascension
• Pentecost
• Trinity
• The Structuring of Time: The Monastic Day
• The Structuring of Space: Pilgrimage and the Christian Life

7. Christianity and the Shaping of Culture

• Christianity and Culture: General Considerations
• Christian Symbolism: The Cross
• Christian Art
• Icons
• Church Architecture
• Stained Glass
• Christian Music
• Christianity and Literature
• Christianity and the Natural Sciences

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