A brief history of Christianity /
Carter Lindberg.
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- xi, 216 p. ; 20 cm.
- Blackwell brief histories of religion .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.
The responsibility to remember : introduction to the historiography of Christianity -- The law of praying is the law of believing -- Sibling rivalry : heresy, orthodoxy, and ecumenical councils -- The heavenly city : the Augustinian synthesis of biblical religion and Hellenism -- The development of the medieval Christendom -- Faith in search of understanding : Anselm, Abelard, and the beginnings of scholasticism -- The medieval church -- The Reformations of the sixteenth century -- Pietism and the Enlightenment -- Challenge and response : the church in the nineteenth century -- The Christian churches since World War I.