A dictionary of Asian Christianity / edited by Scott Sunquist ; associate editors, David Wu Chusing and John Chew Hiang Chea.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This dictionary is the first basic reference work for the study of Asian Christianity in the past and at present. Describing Christianity in the region from Pakistan to Japan and from Mongolia to Indonesia, this volume's 1,260 signed articles include biographies of important Asian church leaders as well as reliable, up-to-date information on the political, cultural, and religious movements that have shaped the Christian faith in this part of the world."--Jacket.

History of the world Christian movement :  volume 1 : earliest Christianity to 1453 / Dale T. Irvin, Scott W. Sunquist.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

VOLUME 1. Foreword -- List of maps -- List of illustrations -- PART I. INTO ALL THE WORLD: BEGINNINGS OF THE WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT -- 1. The civilizations and culture of the world -- 2. Judaism at the time of Jesus -- 3. Christian beginnings: The Jesus Movement -- PART II. DIVERSE TRAJECTORIES OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT -- 4. Apostolic memory in several Gospels -- 5. The early Christian movement in Syria and Mesopotamia -- 6. The early Christian movement in Greece and Asia Minor -- 7. The early Christian movement in the Western Mediterranean -- 8. The early Christian movement in Alexandria and Egypt -- 9. "Every foreign land" -- PART III. THE GREAT CHURCH TAKES SHAPE -- 10. The great church emerges -- 11. Gnostics, Catholics, and Manichaeans -- 12. Christians, Jews, and Israel's heritage of monotheism -- 13. Spiritual currents and social life across cultures -- PART IV. THE AGE OF THE IMPERIAL CHURCH: AFFIRMATIONS AND DISSENT (c. 300 to c. 600) -- 14. The conversion of Constantine and the making of an imperial church -- 15. Donatists and Catholics: A struggle over holiness and unity in Roman North Africa -- 16. The Arian-Nicene controversy and the making of orthodoxy -- 17. The road to Chalcedon and Christological diversity -- 18. The Christian movement in the East: Syria and the emergence of a Persian national church -- 19. Christianity in Egypt and Ethiopia -- 20. Rome and the Latin churches in the West -- 21. The age of Justinian and Theodora in the Eastern Roman Empire -- PART V. NEW CHALLENGES, NEW BEGINNINGS: 600 TO 1000 -- 22. The land of Arabia, the prophet Muhammad, and the rise of Islam -- 23. The Christian movement and the Islamic Caliphate I: Syria and Persia -- 24. The Christian movement in Africa and Spain -- 25. Expansion of the Christian movement in India, Central Asia, and China -- 26. The making of Christendom in the West -- 27. Monasticism in the West -- 28. Christianity in the East Roman Empire -- 29. Christian expansion northward -- PART VI. NEW POLITICAL HORIZONS: 1000 TO 1453 -- 30. Controversy and crisis in Christendom -- 31. Christendom on crusade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 32. Spiritual renewal in Western Christendom 1100-1300 -- 33. Intellectual renewal in Western Christendom 1100-1300 -- 34. Byzantium in the thirteenth century -- 35. Christianity in Asia under the Mongols -- 36. Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia -- 37. Western Christendom 1300-1450 -- 38. The Christian movement in the East until 1453 -- Index to names of persons and deities -- Index to subjects.