Outlines of Church History
Rudolf Sohm [1841-1917], translated by Miss May Sinclair

Book Description

Title:

Outlines of Church History

Author:

Rudolf Sohm [1841-1917], translated by Miss May Sinclair

Publication Year:

1909

Location:

London

Publisher:

SPCK

Pages:

260

Subjects:

Church History, Introduction

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Table of Contents

• Editor's Preface
• Author's Preface
• Division I: The Beginning
• Introduction
• The World
• Christianity
1. Persecution
• Judaism and Christianity
• Paganism and Christianity
• Proceedings against the Christians
• The Decisive Battle
• The Church and her Victory
2. Internal Development
• Jewish Christianity
• Gentile Christianity
• Constitution of the Church. Catholicism
3. The Church of the Empire
• State and Church
• The Council of Nicrea
• Institution of Patriarchs
• Rome and Constantinople
• Rise of Monasticism. Augustine
• Division II: The Middle Ages
  • Introduction
1. The Frankish Empire
• The Kingdoms of the Germans
• Under the Merovingians
• The Frankish Reformation
• The Empire of Charles the Great
2. The German Middle Ages
• The German Emperors
• Reform of Monasticism
• Ecclesiastical Reform
• The Concordat of Worms
• The Crusades and Chivalry
• Monasticism. The Mendicant Orders
• Spiritual Law and Jurisdiction
• The Mendicant Orders and the Middle Class
• Encroachments of the Papal Autl1ority-Abuses
• The Babylonian Exile-Schism
• Degradation of Monasticism
• Reforming Forces
• The Councils of Reform
• Power of the Sovereigns
• Division III: The Age of the Reformation
1. Reformation
• New Currents
• Luther
• The Protestant Reformation
• The Constitution of the Protestant Church
• The Lutherans and the Reformed Churches
2. Counter Reformation
• The Catholic Reformation
• The Order of Jesuits
• The Council of Trent
• Division IV: Pietism and the Illumination
• Pietism
• The Illumination
• The Destruction of the Jesuit Order
• The Omnipotent State
• The Idea of Toleration
• Division V: The Nineteenth Century
• The Question
• The Restoration and Romanticism
• Liberalism
• The Realism of the Present
• The Church and Society
• The Situation

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