Turning Points
by Noll, Mark A.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-07-01
Publisher(s): Baker Academic
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Summary
This new edition of Mark Noll's classic introduction to church history isolates fourteen key moments that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. This version includes a new preface, updates throughout the book, revised further readings for each chapter, and two new chapters. Study questions are included. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Mark A. Noll (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is one of the nation's most distinguished practitioners of American religious history and the author of dozens of books, including America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Idea of Turning Points and Reasons for Studying the History of Christianity | p. 1 |
| The Church Pushed Out on Its Own: The Fall of Jerusalem (70) | p. 13 |
| Realities of Empire: The Council of Nicaea (325) | p. 39 |
| Doctrine, Politics, and Life in the Word: The Council of Chalcedon (451) | p. 59 |
| The Monastic Rescue of the Church: Benedict's Rule (530) | p. 77 |
| The Culmination of Christendom: The Coronation of Charlemagne (800) | p. 99 |
| Division between East and West: The Great Schism (1054) | p. 121 |
| The Beginnings of Protestantism: The Diet of Worms (1521) | p. 143 |
| A New Europe: The English Act of Supremacy (1534) | p. 167 |
| Catholic Reform and Worldwide Outreach: The Founding of the Jesuits (1540) | p. 189 |
| The New Piety: The Conversion of the Wesleys (1738) | p. 215 |
| Discontents of the Modern West: The French Revolution (1789) | p. 239 |
| A Faith for All the World: The Edinburgh Missionary Conference (1910) | p. 261 |
| Mobilizing for the Future: The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (1974) | p. 287 |
| Afterword: The Character of Christianity and the Search for Turning Points | p. 307 |
| Study Questions | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 345 |
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