Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries
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Overview
Church history is important because it shows us how God’s faithful dealings with His people in the Bible continue in the ongoing life and work of Christ in our world. If you have ever wished for a short book highlighting church history’s most important events that will enlighten your mind and peak your interest, this is the one you’ve been waiting for. Three prolific church historians collaborate their efforts in Church History 101 to present you with a quick read of church history’s high points.
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- Highlights the church history’s most important events.
- Shows us how God’s faithful dealings with His people in the Bible continue in the ongoing life.
- Presents you with a quick read of church history’s high points.
- Preface
- First Century: Apostolic Foundations
- Second Century: The Church of Martyrs and Confessors
- Third Century: Persecution and Heresy; Origen and Tertullian
- Fourth Century: The Beginnings of the Christian Empire
- Fifth Century: The City of God and the City of Man
- Sixth Century: Justinian, Benedict, and the Conversion of the Scots
- Seventh Century: Gregory the Great and the Rise of Islam
- Eighth Century: The Iconoclastic Controversy
- Ninth Century: Struggle for Power in the Church; Ratramnus and Gottschalk
- Tenth Century: The Dark Ages
- Eleventh Century: The Great Schism; Anselm of Canterbury
- Twelfth Century: The Crusades, Abelard, Lombard, and the Waldenses
- Thirteenth Century: Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas
- Fourteenth Century: The Church’s Babylonian Captivity and John Wycliffe
- Fifteenth Century: The Renaissance, Huss, Savonarola, and Groote
- Sixteenth Century: Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation
- Seventeenth Century: Reforming the Church in England
- Eighteenth Century: The Great Awakening
- Nineteenth Century: Beginnings of Modern Theology and Kingdom Builders
- Twentieth Century: The Age of Paradoxes
The story of the growth of God’s kingdom is thrilling in all its aspects, and to have this brief summary available in book form will surely aid us in the assurance that absolutely nothing can prevent King Jesus from fulfilling His purpose in building His church. Thrilling to read.
—Derek Thomas, Robert Strong Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta
- Title: Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries
- Author: Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson
- Publisher: Reformation Heritage
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 99
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781601784766, 1601784767
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRCH101TWCNTRS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-07T20:02:56Z
Dr. Sinclair Ferguson is a native of Scotland and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen. He was minister of two churches in Scotland, on the Island of Unst the most northerly of the Shetland Isles, and in St George’s-Tron, in the center of Glasgow, as well as serving in the USA at First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C. In addition, he was for many years Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia and at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas. He is currently the honorary evening preacher in St Peter’s Free Church of Scotland, Dundee. He has authored around fifty books and contributed to many others. He and his wife Dorothy have been blessed with three sons and a daughter and eleven grandchildren.