
- 480 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Thomas S. Kidd presents a global history of the Christian church in the modern age.
Christian History, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present provides a composite picture of important, influential, and representative Christian beliefs, thinkers, activists, trends, and practices from about 1500 to the present day. In a highly readable style, Kidd covers the events and figures from the Reformation, the Great Awakenings, higher criticism, and the culture wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This volume also covers the global nature of God’s church by examining historical global traditions as well as the recent the demographic shift of active Christian communities to the global South.
In addition to the major theologians, movements, and events of the period, Kidd highlights the everyday Christian experience through the centuries, including accounts of ordinary men and women who experienced conversion, lived sacrificially for the gospel, or endured persecution.
A lively, engaging, and readable text, Christian History, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present will become a staple text for students and professors alike.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Reformation Begins
- Chapter 2: The Reformation: Division and Reaction
- Chapter 3: The Catholic Reformation
- Chapter 4: Reform in the British Isles
- Chapter 5: The Fate of the Reformation into the 1600s
- Chapter 6: The English Civil War, Pietism, and the Early Enlightenment
- Chapter 7: New World Colonies
- Chapter 8: Skepticism, Devotion, andĀ the Enlightenment
- Chapter 9: The Early Evangelical Movement
- Chapter 10: A Transatlantic Revival
- Chapter 11: A Vibrant and Contested Awakening
- Chapter 12: Faith and the Age of Revolutions
- Chapter 13: Protestants and New Global Missions
- Chapter 14: The Second Great Awakening and a Growing Christian World
- Chapter 15: A New Era of Theological Change and Moral Reform
- Chapter 16: Missionaries, the Benevolent Empire, and Global Christian Growth
- Chapter 17: The Age of Societies
- Chapter 18: An Era of Theological Innovation
- Chapter 19: Christians and the āHeinousĀ Sinā of Slavery
- Chapter 20 : A New Era of Biblical Criticism
- Chapter 21: Sources of Christian Recovery and Renewal
- Chapter 22: Revival, Revivalists, and the Coming of Pentecostalism
- Chapter 23: Theological Divisions and the Era of the World Wars
- Chapter 24: Resistance and Realism in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Chapter 25: Global Christian Growth in the Age of Billy Graham
- Chapter 26: Civil Rights, Liberation Theology, and Culture War
- Chapter 27: Theological Conflict and a New Global Church
- Chapter 28: Global Churches Facing the Future
- Illustration Credits
- Index