This superb volume provides the first genuinely global one-volume history of the rise and development of the Christian faith. An international team of specialists takes seriously the geographical diversity of the Christian story, discussing the impact of Christianity not only in the West but also in Latin America, Africa, India, the Orient and Australasia Christianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America. This prodigious work provides the first genuinely global one-volume study of the rise, development, and impact of the Christian faith. Written by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive volume covers the full breadth of Christian history while also taking seriously the geographical diversity of the story: extensive chapters cover North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, China and its neighbors, and Australia and the Pacific. Though unified in scope, these chapters each focus on what matters most in the specific time and place covered, ensuring that readers are introduced to the major themes--social, theological, political, and cultural--that together constitute Christianity's role in world history. Ideally suited for classroom study as well as for independent reading, A World History of Christianity will serve as the definitive study of church history for the coming generation worldwide. Contributors: Mary B. Cunningham Gillian Evans Robert E. Frykenberg Martin Goodman Adrian Hastings Mary Heimann David Hilliard Robert Bruce Mullin Andrew Pettegree Gary Tiedemann Philip Walters Benedicta Ward Kevin Ward List of maps x Preface xi The contributors xiii Introduction 1(6) Adrian Hastings The emergence of Christianity 7(18) Martin Goodman Judaism, the Roman Empire and Jesus 7(9) The emergence of the Church 16(9) 150--550 25(41) Adrian Hastings The second and third centuries 25(10) Constantine and an imperial Church 35(8) The monastic movement 43(3) Dogma and theology in the fourth and fifth centuries 46(12) Missionary expansion and political distintegration: surpassing the empire 58(8) The Orthodox Church in Byzantium 66(44) Mary Cunningham The sixth century: the revival of the Christian Roman Empire 68(6) The seventh century and Monothelitism 74(3) The Iconoclast Controversy (726--843) 77(4) The revival of monasticism and the patriarchate of Photios 81(1) Ninth-century missions to the Slavs and the emergence of the Slavic Churches 82(4) The tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 86(8) The first four Crusades (1097-1204) 94(3) The period of Latin occupation, 1204-61 97(2) The Slavic Churches in the last centuries of Byzantium 99(2) The Palaeologan period, 1261-1453 101(4) Conclusion 105(5) The medieval West 110(37) Benedicta Ward G. R. Evans The medieval idea of the Church 110(1) Spreading Christianity through northern Europe 111(8) The Bible and the Church 119(3) Church and state and papal authority 122(3) The Church and the individual: sanctity, feasts and sacraments 125(6) Religious life, prayer and mysticism 131(6) The Church and war 137(2) Education and theology 139(2) Reform and revolution 141(6) India 147(45) R. E. Frykenberg Early arrivals: the Thomas and Eastern Christians 148(9) Responses to the Padroado and Propaganda Fide 157(15) Evangelical and Enlightenment impulses 172(7) Challenges under the Raj 179(9) The continent since 1947 188(4) Africa 192(46) Kevin Ward Egypt, North Africa, Nubia and Islam 193(4) Ethiopia 197(3) The kingdom of Kongo and the Portuguese missionary enterprise 200(3) The revival of mission in the nineteenth century 203(13) West Africa 203(6) South Africa 209(4) Eastern Africa 213(3) Colonial and missionary scrambles 216(2) Christianity in colonial times: education and `adaptation' 218(3) The rise of independent Churches 221(2) Other movements of spiritual renewal 223(3) Decolonialization 226(2) Christianity and the politics of independent Africa 228(3) African theology 231(2) Conclusion 233(5) Reformation and Counter-Reformation 238(44) Andrew Pettegree The pre-Reformation Church 238(5) Luther and Germany 243(5) The Reformation outside Germany 248(9) Calvinism and religious warfare in the second half of the sixteenth century 257(9) Later Lutheranism and the second Reformation 266(4) Catholic reform 270(7) The seventeenth century and the resolution of the Reformation conflict 277(5) Eastern Europe since the fifteenth century 282(46) Philip Walters Europe East and West 282(2) 1453--1700 284(12) Christianity under Ottoman rule 284(6) Russia and its Church 290(6) 1700--1920 296(15) Peter the Great and the New Russia 296(5) The Caucusus between Russians and Ottomans 301(2) Balkan Christians in a declining Ottoman Empire 303(5) The Russian religious renaissance of the late nineteenth century 308(3) 1920--1990 311(10) The collapse of the empires 311(1) The Churches in the inter-war Balkans 312(2) Russian Christianity under Communism 314(5) Balkan Christianity under Communism 319(2) Post-Communist Christianity 321(7) Latin America 328(41) Adrian Hastings Sixteenth-century Spain 328(2) The first hundred and fifty years of Latin American Catholicism 330(13) 1650--1780 343(6) 1780--1900: revolutions and reactions 349(8) The twentieth century 357(12) China and its neighbours 369(47) R. G. Tiedemann China before 1500: Nestorians and Franciscans 369(4) The planting of Christianity, 1500-1800 373(13) The Philippines 374(1) The rise and fall of Christianity in late medieval Japan 375(2) Late imperial China 377(7) The origins of the Church in Vietnam 384(2) 1800--1945 386(19) The Church, colonialism and nationalism in South-east Asia 386(4) From mission to Church in modern China 390(9) Japan: the second encounter 399(3) Korea 402(3) 1945 onwards 405(6) The Chinese Church under Communism 405(3) Post-colonial South-East Asia 408(1) South Korea 409(2) Concluding comments 411(5) North America 416(42) Robert Bruce Mullin Seventeenth-century beginnings 417(4) New challenges 421(1) Wars and the Great Awakening 422(6) The Second Great Awakening 428(4) Canadian developments 432(1) Catholics and controversy 433(3) The problem of slavery and division 436(4) Crisis days/halcyon days 440(3) The Social Gospel 443(1) Canada: organization and union 444(2) Challenges for the soul of America 446(3) Let the Church be the Church 449(2) The Post-War Revival 451(1) The 1960s and the second disestablishment 452(3) Christianity in North America at the end of the twentieth century 455(3) Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment 458(50) Mary Heimann Introduction 458(1) Enlightenment 459(6) Rational religion 465(6) The unenlightened 471(6) Revolution and reaction 477(8) Liberalism 485(5) Science and religion 490(7) Pluralism and diffusion 497(11) Australiasia and the Pacific 508(29) David Hilliard Christian beginnings in Australia 509(2) Christianity in the Pacific Islands 511(5) Christianity in New Zealand 516(2) Adaptation and innovation 518(8) Church and society 526(3) The Pacific Churches since the Second World War 529(2) Recent trends in Australia and New Zealand 531(6) Bibliography 537(35) Maps 572(10) Index 582