"The present work has as its basis the series of five Short Histories by the same author, which appeared in the following order: The Reformation, 1884; The Early Church, 1886; The Medieval Church, 1887; The Modern Church in Europe, 1888; and The Church in the United States, 1890. The five volumes form a connected History of the Church nearly down to the present time." (from the preface)
Chapters
1 Preface 5 min 2 1.1 The Church and Its History 8 min 3 1.2 The Scene of the Labors of the Apostles 8 min 4 1.3 The Greek and Roman Conditions 12 min 5 1.4 The Attitude of Judaism towards Christianity 8 min 6 1.5 The Period of Universal Persecution 8 min 7 1.6 Christian Worship 4 min 8 1.7 The Life of Christians 4 min 9 1.8 Ecclesiastical Organization 4 min 10 1.9 Ebionism and Gnosticism 11 min 11 1.10 The Pagan Literary Attack 8 min 12 1.11 The Christian Defenders 8 min 13 1.12 The Christian Schools 6 min 14 1.13 Liberation under Constantine 7 min 15 1.14 Reaction under Julian 8 min 16 1.15 The Montanistic Reform 6 min 17 1.16 Controversies on Christ 7 min 18 1.17 The Later Controversies 14 min 19 1.18 Ecclesiastical Schisms 7 min 20 1.19 The Scriptures and Tradition 9 min 21 1.20 Apocryphal Writings 6 min 22 1.21 Theology During the Early Period 17 min 23 1.22 Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy 15 min 24 1.23 Sacred Seasons and Public Worship 9 min 25 1.24 Ecclesiastical Discipline 6 min 26 1.25 Christian Life and Usages 12 min 27 1.26 The Church in the Catacombs 16 min 28 1.27 Monasticism 6 min 29 1.28 The Age of Gregory the Great 4 min 30 1.29 The Expansion of Christianity 13 min 31 1.30 The Close of the Early Period 7 min 32 2.1 The Medieval Transition 6 min 33 2.2 The Reign of Charlemagne 8 min 34 2.3 Church and State under the Later Carolingian Rulers 6 min 35 2.4 The Fictitious Isidore 9 min 36 2.5 Mohammedanism 8 min 37 2.6 The Schools of Charlemagne 7 min 38 2.7 Theological Movements 8 min 39 2.8 The Rule of the Popes 10 min 40 2.9 The Gregorian Reform 7 min 41 2.10 Moral Life and Ecclesiastical Usages 6 min 42 2.11 The Public Services 8 min 43 2.12 The Writers of the Times 5 min 44 2.13 New Missions 13 min 45 2.14 Schism between the East and the West 7 min 46 2.15 The Anglo-Saxon Church 7 min 47 2.16 Arnold of Brescia 8 min 48 2.17 The Waldenses and the Albigenses 6 min 49 2.18 Thomas Becket 8 min 50 2.19 The Monastic Orders 10 min 51 2.20 Monasteries as Centres of Intellectual Life 3 min 52 2.21 Christian Art 6 min 53 2.22 Christian Worship 5 min 54 2.23 The Crusades: A.D. 1096-1270 9 min 55 2.24 Arabic Philosophy 4 min 56 2.25 The Hohenstaufens in Italy 6 min 57 2.26 The Jewish Philosophy 4 min 58 2.27 The Scholastic Philosophy 11 min 59 2.28 Abelard and his Fortunes 8 min 60 2.29 General Literature 4 min 61 2.30 The Great Schools 3 min 62 2.31 The Divided Papacy 7 min 63 2.32 Retrospect 4 min 64 3.1 The Heralds of Protestantism 34 min 65 3.2 The Humanism of Italy 12 min 66 3.3 The Reformatory Councils 8 min 67 3.4 The German Reformation: Martin Luther 19 min 68 3.5 Luther: Further Labors and Personal Character 16 min 69 3.6 Melanchthon and other German Reformers 12 min 70 3.7 The Reformation in German Switzerland 11 min 71 3.8 The Reformation in French Switzerland 19 min 72 3.9 The English Reformation: First Period 17 min 73 3.10 The English Reformation: Second Period 9 min 74 3.11 The Scotch Reformation 7 min 75 3.12 The Reformation in the Netherlands 10 min 76 3.13 The Reformation in France 11 min 77 3.14 The Reformation in Italy 13 min 78 3.15 The Reformation in Spain and Portugal 7 min 79 3.16 The Reformation in Scandinavia 3 min 80 3.17 The Reformation in the Slavic Lands 7 min 81 3.18 Survey of Results 7 min 82 3.19 The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Luther's Birth 6 min 83 4.1 Recuperative Measures of Romanism 6 min 84 4.2 The Order of Jesuits 10 min 85 4.3 The English Church under James I and Charles I 8 min 86 4.4 The English Puritans 6 min 87 4.5 The Quakers 5 min 88 4.6 Cromwell and the Commonwealth 8 min 89 4.7 The Church During the Restoration 7 min 90 4.8 English Deism 8 min 91 4.9 The Protestant Church in Germany 5 min 92 4.10 Mysticism in Germany 6 min 93 4.11 The Thirty Years' War 8 min 94 4.12 The Protestant Emigration to America 3 min 95 4.13 Arminius and the Synod of Dort 5 min 96 4.14 The Salzburg Persecution 4 min 97 4.15 Spener and Pietism 10 min 98 4.16 The Moravians 6 min 99 4.17 Swedenborg and the New Church 5 min 100 4.18 Rationalism in Germany 6 min 101 4.19 The Evangelical Reaction 6 min 102 4.20 French Mysticism and Flemish Jansenism 6 min 103 4.21 French Infidelity 5 min 104 4.22 French Protestantism 6 min 105 4.23 The Russo-Greek Church 9 min 106 4.24 Wesley and Methodism 9 min 107 4.25 The Tractarian Movement 7 min 108 4.26 The Schools in the Church of England 14 min 109 4.27 The English Universities 5 min 110 4.28 Scholars and Divines of the English Church 16 min 111 4.29 Puritan and Presbyterian Scholars and Divines 15 min 112 4.30 Critical Periods in the History of the Scottish Church 11 min 113 4.31 The Ekskine Schism and the Haldane Revival 8 min 114 4.32 The Great Disruption 8 min 115 4.33 Learning and Literary Culture in the Roman Catholic Church 7 min 116 4.34 The Growth of Mary-Worship 6 min 117 4.35 The End of the Temporal Power of the Papacy 6 min 118 4.36 The Contest with Germany 4 min 119 4.37 The Survival of Superstition 4 min 120 4.38 Roman Catholicism in England 8 min 121 4.39 The Vatican Council 6 min 122 4.40 The Old Catholics 7 min 123 4.41 The Evangelical Alliance 4 min 124 4.42 The Sunday-School 4 min 125 4.43 The Revision of the Bible 5 min 126 4.44 The Protestant Mission Field 16 min 127 4.45 The Temperance Reform 4 min 128 4.46 Philanthropy in England and Germany 7 min 129 4.47 English Preachers 5 min 130 4.48 Literature and Religion in England 6 min 131 4.49 The Salvation Army 5 min 132 4.50 Survey of Religious Life on the Continent 6 min 133 5.1.1 The New Christendom 5 min 134 5.1.2 The Spanish Colonization 10 min 135 5.1.3 The French Colonization 10 min 136 5.1.4 The English Colonization: Virginia and Massachusetts 15 min 137 5.1.5 Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other English Colonies 9 min 138 5.1.6 Continental Colonies: Dutch, Swedes, Huguenots, and other Protestants 8 min 139 5.1.7 The Providential Planting 6 min 140 5.1.8 Political Framework of the Colonies 7 min 141 5.1.9 Church Government in the Colonies 8 min 142 5.1.10 Education 10 min 143 5.1.11 Intolerance in the Colonies 14 min 144 5.1.12 Religious Life of the Colonies 6 min 145 5.1.13 Colonial Worship and Usages 6 min 146 5.1.14 Missions to the Indians 10 min 147 5.1.15 Theological Movements 11 min 148 5.1.16 Religious Literature 10 min 149 5.1.17 Early Leaders 12 min 150 5.1.18 The Influence of the Puritans 4 min 151 5.1.19 The Episcopal Defection in Connecticut 4 min 152 5.2.1 The Church at the Founding of the Republic 7 min 153 5.2.2 The Separation of Church and State 8 min 154 5.2.3 The French Infidelity 7 min 155 5.2.4 Revival at the Beginning of the Century 6 min 156 5.2.5 Expansion in the South and West 7 min 157 5.2.6 The Protestant Episcopal Church 5 min 158 5.2.7 The Congregational Church 5 min 159 5.2.8 The Reformed Churches 6 min 160 5.2.9 The Baptist Church 12 min 161 5.2.10 The Presbyterian Church 13 min 162 5.2.11 The Lutheran Church 11 min 163 5.2.12 American Methodism 20 min 164 5.2.13 The Roman Catholic Church 15 min 165 5.2.14 The Unitarian Church 13 min 166 5.2.15 The Universalist Church 9 min 167 5.2.16 The Moravian Church 9 min 168 5.2.17 Alexander Campbell and the Disciples of Christ 9 min 169 5.2.18 The Quakers 10 min 170 5.2.19 Other Denominations 26 min 171 5.2.20 The Transcendentalists 10 min 172 5.2.21 Communistic Churches 12 min 173 5.2.22 The Mormons 14 min 174 5.2.23 The Antislavery Reform 16 min 175 5.2.24 The Temperance Reform 17 min 176 5.2.25 Philanthropy and Christian Union 16 min 177 5.2.26 Missions 17 min 178 5.2.27 The Sunday-School 8 min 179 5.2.28 Christian Literature 13 min 180 5.2.29 The American Pulpit 13 min 181 5.2.30 Theology of the American Church 13 min 182 5.2.31 Theological Scholarship 19 min
