Short History of the Christian Church

Narrators: TriciaG

Number of Chapters: 182

Length: 26 hours and 30 minutes

Language: English

"The present work has as its basis the series of five Short Histories by the same author, which appeared in the following order: The Reformation, 1884; The Early Church, 1886; The Medieval Church, 1887; The Modern Church in Europe, 1888; and The Church in the United States, 1890. The five volumes form a connected History of the Church nearly down to the present time." (from the preface)

John Fletcher Hurst was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He wrote the 5 histories as Chautauqua textbooks. The audio files are in the following order:
Part 1: The Early Church (A.D. 30-750)
Part 2: The Medieval Church (A.D. 750-1517)
Part 3: The Reformation (A.D. 1517-1545)
Part 4: The Modern Church in Europe (A.D. 1558-1892)
Part 5: The Church in the United States (A.D. 1492-1892)

Preface (TriciaG)

1.1 The Church and Its History (TriciaG)

1.2 The Scene of the Labors of the Apostles (TriciaG)

1.3 The Greek and Roman Conditions (TriciaG)

1.4 The Attitude of Judaism towards Christianity (TriciaG)

1.5 The Period of Universal Persecution (TriciaG)

1.6 Christian Worship (TriciaG)

1.7 The Life of Christians (TriciaG)

1.8 Ecclesiastical Organization (TriciaG)

1.9 Ebionism and Gnosticism (TriciaG)

1.10 The Pagan Literary Attack (TriciaG)

1.11 The Christian Defenders (TriciaG)

1.12 The Christian Schools (TriciaG)

1.13 Liberation under Constantine (TriciaG)

1.14 Reaction under Julian (TriciaG)

1.15 The Montanistic Reform (TriciaG)

1.16 Controversies on Christ (TriciaG)

1.17 The Later Controversies (TriciaG)

1.18 Ecclesiastical Schisms (TriciaG)

1.19 The Scriptures and Tradition (TriciaG)

1.20 Apocryphal Writings (TriciaG)

1.21 Theology During the Early Period (TriciaG)

1.22 Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy (TriciaG)

1.23 Sacred Seasons and Public Worship (TriciaG)

1.24 Ecclesiastical Discipline (TriciaG)

1.25 Christian Life and Usages (TriciaG)

1.26 The Church in the Catacombs (TriciaG)

1.27 Monasticism (TriciaG)

1.28 The Age of Gregory the Great (TriciaG)

1.29 The Expansion of Christianity (TriciaG)

1.30 The Close of the Early Period (TriciaG)

2.1 The Medieval Transition (TriciaG)

2.2 The Reign of Charlemagne (TriciaG)

2.3 Church and State under the Later Carolingian Rulers (TriciaG)

2.4 The Fictitious Isidore (TriciaG)

2.5 Mohammedanism (TriciaG)

2.6 The Schools of Charlemagne (TriciaG)

2.7 Theological Movements (TriciaG)

2.8 The Rule of the Popes (TriciaG)

2.9 The Gregorian Reform (TriciaG)

2.10 Moral Life and Ecclesiastical Usages (TriciaG)

2.11 The Public Services (TriciaG)

2.12 The Writers of the Times (TriciaG)

2.13 New Missions (TriciaG)

2.14 Schism between the East and the West (TriciaG)

2.15 The Anglo-Saxon Church (TriciaG)

2.16 Arnold of Brescia (TriciaG)

2.17 The Waldenses and the Albigenses (TriciaG)

2.18 Thomas Becket (TriciaG)

2.19 The Monastic Orders (TriciaG)

2.20 Monasteries as Centres of Intellectual Life (TriciaG)

2.21 Christian Art (TriciaG)

2.22 Christian Worship (TriciaG)

2.23 The Crusades: A.D. 1096-1270 (TriciaG)

2.24 Arabic Philosophy (TriciaG)

2.25 The Hohenstaufens in Italy (TriciaG)

2.26 The Jewish Philosophy (TriciaG)

2.27 The Scholastic Philosophy (TriciaG)

2.28 Abelard and his Fortunes (TriciaG)

2.29 General Literature (TriciaG)

2.30 The Great Schools (TriciaG)

2.31 The Divided Papacy (TriciaG)

2.32 Retrospect (TriciaG)

3.1 The Heralds of Protestantism (TriciaG)

3.2 The Humanism of Italy (TriciaG)

3.3 The Reformatory Councils (TriciaG)

3.4 The German Reformation: Martin Luther (TriciaG)

3.5 Luther: Further Labors and Personal Character (TriciaG)

3.6 Melanchthon and other German Reformers (TriciaG)

3.7 The Reformation in German Switzerland (TriciaG)

3.8 The Reformation in French Switzerland (TriciaG)

3.9 The English Reformation: First Period (TriciaG)

3.10 The English Reformation: Second Period (TriciaG)

3.11 The Scotch Reformation (TriciaG)

3.12 The Reformation in the Netherlands (TriciaG)

3.13 The Reformation in France (TriciaG)

3.14 The Reformation in Italy (TriciaG)

3.15 The Reformation in Spain and Portugal (TriciaG)

3.16 The Reformation in Scandinavia (TriciaG)

3.17 The Reformation in the Slavic Lands (TriciaG)

3.18 Survey of Results (TriciaG)

3.19 The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Luther's Birth (TriciaG)

4.1 Recuperative Measures of Romanism (TriciaG)

4.2 The Order of Jesuits (TriciaG)

4.3 The English Church under James I and Charles I (TriciaG)

4.4 The English Puritans (TriciaG)

4.5 The Quakers (TriciaG)

4.6 Cromwell and the Commonwealth (TriciaG)

4.7 The Church During the Restoration (TriciaG)

4.8 English Deism (TriciaG)

4.9 The Protestant Church in Germany (TriciaG)

4.10 Mysticism in Germany (TriciaG)

4.11 The Thirty Years' War (TriciaG)

4.12 The Protestant Emigration to America (TriciaG)

4.13 Arminius and the Synod of Dort (TriciaG)

4.14 The Salzburg Persecution (TriciaG)

4.15 Spener and Pietism (TriciaG)

4.16 The Moravians (TriciaG)

4.17 Swedenborg and the New Church (TriciaG)

4.18 Rationalism in Germany (TriciaG)

4.19 The Evangelical Reaction (TriciaG)

4.20 French Mysticism and Flemish Jansenism (TriciaG)

4.21 French Infidelity (TriciaG)

4.22 French Protestantism (TriciaG)

4.23 The Russo-Greek Church (TriciaG)

4.24 Wesley and Methodism (TriciaG)

4.25 The Tractarian Movement (TriciaG)

4.26 The Schools in the Church of England (TriciaG)

4.27 The English Universities (TriciaG)

4.28 Scholars and Divines of the English Church (TriciaG)

4.29 Puritan and Presbyterian Scholars and Divines (TriciaG)

4.30 Critical Periods in the History of the Scottish Church (TriciaG)

4.31 The Ekskine Schism and the Haldane Revival (TriciaG)

4.32 The Great Disruption (TriciaG)

4.33 Learning and Literary Culture in the Roman Catholic Church (TriciaG)

4.34 The Growth of Mary-Worship (TriciaG)

4.35 The End of the Temporal Power of the Papacy (TriciaG)

4.36 The Contest with Germany (TriciaG)

4.37 The Survival of Superstition (TriciaG)

4.38 Roman Catholicism in England (TriciaG)

4.39 The Vatican Council (TriciaG)

4.40 The Old Catholics (TriciaG)

4.41 The Evangelical Alliance (TriciaG)

4.42 The Sunday-School (TriciaG)

4.43 The Revision of the Bible (TriciaG)

4.44 The Protestant Mission Field (TriciaG)

4.45 The Temperance Reform (TriciaG)

4.46 Philanthropy in England and Germany (TriciaG)

4.47 English Preachers (TriciaG)

4.48 Literature and Religion in England (TriciaG)

4.49 The Salvation Army (TriciaG)

4.50 Survey of Religious Life on the Continent (TriciaG)

5.1.1 The New Christendom (TriciaG)

5.1.2 The Spanish Colonization (TriciaG)

5.1.3 The French Colonization (TriciaG)

5.1.4 The English Colonization: Virginia and Massachusetts (TriciaG)

5.1.5 Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other English Colonies (TriciaG)

5.1.6 Continental Colonies: Dutch, Swedes, Huguenots, and other Protestants (TriciaG)

5.1.7 The Providential Planting (TriciaG)

5.1.8 Political Framework of the Colonies (TriciaG)

5.1.9 Church Government in the Colonies (TriciaG)

5.1.10 Education (TriciaG)

5.1.11 Intolerance in the Colonies (TriciaG)

5.1.12 Religious Life of the Colonies (TriciaG)

5.1.13 Colonial Worship and Usages (TriciaG)

5.1.14 Missions to the Indians (TriciaG)

5.1.15 Theological Movements (TriciaG)

5.1.16 Religious Literature (TriciaG)

5.1.17 Early Leaders (TriciaG)

5.1.18 The Influence of the Puritans (TriciaG)

5.1.19 The Episcopal Defection in Connecticut (TriciaG)

5.2.1 The Church at the Founding of the Republic (TriciaG)

5.2.2 The Separation of Church and State (TriciaG)

5.2.3 The French Infidelity (TriciaG)

5.2.4 Revival at the Beginning of the Century (TriciaG)

5.2.5 Expansion in the South and West (TriciaG)

5.2.6 The Protestant Episcopal Church (TriciaG)

5.2.7 The Congregational Church (TriciaG)

5.2.8 The Reformed Churches (TriciaG)

5.2.9 The Baptist Church (TriciaG)

5.2.10 The Presbyterian Church (TriciaG)

5.2.11 The Lutheran Church (TriciaG)

5.2.12 American Methodism (TriciaG)

5.2.13 The Roman Catholic Church (TriciaG)

5.2.14 The Unitarian Church (TriciaG)

5.2.15 The Universalist Church (TriciaG)

5.2.16 The Moravian Church (TriciaG)

5.2.17 Alexander Campbell and the Disciples of Christ (TriciaG)

5.2.18 The Quakers (TriciaG)

5.2.19 Other Denominations (TriciaG)

5.2.20 The Transcendentalists (TriciaG)

5.2.21 Communistic Churches (TriciaG)

5.2.22 The Mormons (TriciaG)

5.2.23 The Antislavery Reform (TriciaG)

5.2.24 The Temperance Reform (TriciaG)

5.2.25 Philanthropy and Christian Union (TriciaG)

5.2.26 Missions (TriciaG)

5.2.27 The Sunday-School (TriciaG)

5.2.28 Christian Literature (TriciaG)

5.2.29 The American Pulpit (TriciaG)

5.2.30 Theology of the American Church (TriciaG)

5.2.31 Theological Scholarship (TriciaG)

The audiobook Short History of the Christian Church falls under the genres of Christianity - Other. It is written by John Fletcher Hurst.

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