Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 480
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7425-5276-0 • Hardback • December 2006 • $26.95 • (£19.99)
Paul F. M. Zahl is president and dean of Trinity Episcopal Seminary. He has served as rector of Episcopal churches in Scarborough, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina; as curate of Grace Church, New York City; as the dean of the Cathedral Church of the Advent (Episcopal) in Birmingham, Alabama; and has taught at Oxford University. He is also the author of The First Christian: Universal Truth in the Teachings of Jesus Christ, Five Women in the English Reformation, and A Short Systematic Theology. He lives in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 What is Christianity?
Chapter 3 Jesus of Nazareth
Chapter 4 Jesus Christ and St. Paul
Chapter 5 The New Testament
Chapter 6 Christianity in the Ancient World
Chapter 7 The Birth of Christendom
Chapter 8 Heresy and the Fathers, Trinity and the Councils
Chapter 9 Monastacism
Chapter 10 St. Augustine
Chapter 11 Rome and Constantinople: The Great Schism and the Establishment of Western and Eastern Christianity
Chapter 12 Trinity and the Seed of Islam
Chapter 13 The Dark Ages
Chapter 14 Medieval Christianity
Chapter 15 The Twenty-First Century and Beyond
Chapter 16 Appendix
Chapter 17 Index and Glossary of Important Subjects, Events and Writings Mentioned in the Text
Chapter 18 Index and Biographical Sketches of Principal Persons Mentioned in the Text
A gifted pastor gifted with a keen theological mind. This book arrives just in time.
— R Albert Mohler, Jr., president, The Southern Baptist Seminary
A MUST for anyone aspiring to an overview of Christian history and thought.
— George Carey, (Lord Carey of Clifton), former Archbishop of Canterbury 1991-2002