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.