Church history : the rise and growth of the church in its cultural, intellectual, and political context / Everett Ferguson, John D. Woodbridge, Frank A. James III.

Volume 1. : From Christ to the Pre-Reformation / Everett Ferguson.

The Setting for the Story's Beginning -- Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church -- The Subapostolic Age -- The Church and the Empire -- Heresies and Schisms of the Second Century -- The Defense Against Rival Interpretations -- The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems -- Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries -- Development of the Church During the Third Century -- Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century -- The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature -- Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship: The Church in the Fourth Century -- Christological Controversies to Chalcedon -- Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism -- -- Transition to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Development, and the Papacy -- Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries -- Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries -- The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade -- Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism -- Monastic, Literary, Political, and Cultural Activities in the Twelfth Century -- The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century -- Portents of Decline.

ACU copy of v.1&2 gift of Dr. Everett Ferguson.