John McManners is a Fellow of All Souls College, and Regius Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on French and European history. His fifth book, Death and the Enlightenment (OUP, 1981), was awarded the Wolfson Literary Prize for History, and was one of The Times ten best non-fiction books of the year. Henry Chadwick, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge Robert Markus, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of Nottingham Henry Mayr-Harting, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St Peter's College, Oxford Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford Jeremy Johns, Lecturer in Islamic Archaeology, University of Oxford Colin Morris, Professor of Medieval History, University of Southampton Patrick Collinson, Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Cambridge John McManners Owen Chadwick, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Cambridge Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Fredrick B. Pike, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Peter Hinchliff, Former Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford Kenneth Ballhatchet, Emeritus Professor of the History of South Asia, University of London, and Helen Ballhatchet, Associate Professor, Keio University, Japan Sergei Hackel, Formerly Reader in Russian Studies, University of Sussex, and Vicar-General of the Russian Orthodox Church in the British Isles Maurice Wiles, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford Bryan Wilson, Reader in Sociology, University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford Basil Mitchell, Nolloth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of the Christian Religion, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford John V. Taylor, Formerly General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, and Bishop of Winchester Edited by JOHN McMANNERS LIST OF MAPS viii Introduction I JOHN McMANNERS FROM THE ORIGINS TO 1800 i. The Early Christian Community 21 HENRY CHADWICK 2. From Rome to the Barbarian Kingdoms (330-700) 70 ROBERT A. MARKUS 3. The West: The Age of Conversion (700-1050) 101 HENRY MAYR-HARTING 4. Eastern Christendom 131 KALLISTOS WARE 5. Christianity and Islam 167 JEREMY JOHNS 6. Christian Civilization (1050-1400) 205 COLIN MORRIS 7. The Late Medieval Church and its Reformation (1400-16oo) 243 PATRICK COLLINSON 8. Enlightenment: Secular and Christian (i 6oo-i 8oo) 277 JOHN McMANNERS 9. The Expansion of Christianity (i 500-i 800) 310 JOHN McMANNERS CHRISTIANITY SINCE 1800 io. Great Britain and Europe 349 OWEN CHADWICK i i. North America 396 MARTIN MARTY 12. Latin America 437 FREDRICK PIKE 13. Africa 474 PETER HINCHLIFF 14. Asia So8 KENNETH AND HELEN BALLHATCHET iS. The Orthodox Churches of Eastern Europe 539 SERGEI HACKEL CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND TOMORROW 16. What Christians Believe 571 MAURICE WILES 17. New Images of Christian Community 587 BRYAN WILSON 18. The Christian Conscience 618 BASIL MITCHELL z9. The Future of Christianity 644 JOHN TAYLOR FURTHER READING 684 CHRONOLOGY 714 INDEX 741
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