The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History: The People, Places, and Events That Shaped Christianity

398 Pages·2013·10.04 MB·English

by  Ed Hindson

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THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHURCH HISTORY
Copyright © 2013 by Ed Hindson and Daniel R. Mitchell
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The popular encyclopedia of church history / Ed Hindson and Dan Mitchell, general editors.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-7369-4806-7
1. Church history—Encyclopedias. I. Hindson, Edward E., editor of compilation. II. Mitchell, Dan
(Daniel R.) editor of compilation.
BR95.P67 2013
270.03—dc23
2012046795
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To our students,
the future church history makers
of the 21st century
who will prove against the winds of time
that God’s church still stands
and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it.
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Contents
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Editors and Contributors ............................. 13
Preface.............................................. 15
Time Line of Church History ........................... 17
Abelard, Peter.......................................... 21
Adoptionism .......................................... 22
Adventists............................................. 24
African Methodist Episcopal Church........................ 25
Albigensians........................................... 26
Alexandrian School ..................................... 27
Ambrose, Saint......................................... 28
Amish................................................ 30
Amyraut, Moïse........................................ 31
Anabaptists............................................ 33
Anglicanism........................................... 34
Anselm of Canterbury ................................... 36
Apostles’ Creed......................................... 37
Apostolic Fathers ....................................... 38
Aquinas, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Arius and Arianism...................................... 41
Arminianism .......................................... 43
Arminius, Jacob ( Jacobus) ................................ 45
Asbury, Francis......................................... 47
Assemblies of God ...................................... 48
Athanasius ............................................ 50
Augustine of Hippo ..................................... 51
Bach, Johann Sebastian .................................. 53
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Baptists .............................................. 54
Barth, Karl............................................ 56
Basil the Great ......................................... 58
Baxter, Richard......................................... 59
Becket, Thomas ........................................ 61
Bede, Saint............................................ 62
Benedict, Saint......................................... 63
Bernard of Clairvaux .................................... 64
Beza, Theodore......................................... 66
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich .................................... 67
Booth, William ........................................ 68
Brainerd, David........................................ 70
Brethren.............................................. 71
Bright, William “Bill” ................................... 72
Bryan, William Jennings ................................. 73
Bullinger, Heinrich ..................................... 74
Bunyan, John.......................................... 76
Byzantine Christianity................................... 77
Calvin, John........................................... 79
Calvinism............................................. 81
Campbell, Alexander.................................... 83
Carey, William......................................... 85
Chafer, Lewis Sperry .................................... 86
Chalcedon, The Council of ............................... 88
Chambers, Oswald...................................... 89
Charismatic Movement.................................. 90
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith ................................ 93
Cho, David Yonggi ..................................... 94
Christian Science....................................... 95
Chrysostom, John ...................................... 97
Church Growth Movement............................... 98
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Church of God ........................................ 99
Church of God in Christ ................................. 101
Churches of Christ...................................... 102
Congregationalism...................................... 104
Constantine the Great ................................... 105
Coptic Church......................................... 107
Crusades ............................................. 108
Cyril and Methodius .................................... 111
Cyril of Jerusalem....................................... 112
Da Vinci, Leonardo ..................................... 113
Dante................................................ 114
Darby, John Nelson ..................................... 116
Disciples of Christ ...................................... 117
Dispensationalism ...................................... 118
Docetism............................................. 121
Dominicans........................................... 122
Dort, Synod of ........................................ 123
Dwight, Timothy....................................... 124
Eastern Orthodoxy...................................... 127
Ecumenical Councils.................................... 128
Ecumenical Movement .................................. 130
Eddy, Mary Baker ...................................... 131
Edwards, Jonathan...................................... 133
Emergent Church ...................................... 134
England, Church of..................................... 136
Ephrem the Syrian ...................................... 137
Episcopal Church....................................... 138
Erasmus, Desiderius..................................... 139
Eusebius of Caesarea .................................... 140
Evangelical Alliance ..................................... 141
Evangelicalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
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Falwell, Jerry .......................................... 145
Finney, Charles Grandison................................ 146
Fox, George ........................................... 147
Foxe, John ............................................ 148
Francis of Assisi ........................................ 150
Franciscans............................................ 152
Fundamentalism ....................................... 152
Geneva Bible .......................................... 155
Gideons International ................................... 156
Gill, John............................................. 157
Gnosticism............................................ 158
Graham, Billy.......................................... 160
Great Awakening....................................... 162
Great Schism .......................................... 163
Gregory of Nazianzus.................................... 164
Handel, George Frideric.................................. 167
Harvard, John ......................................... 168
Haystack Revival ....................................... 170
Heidelberg Catechism ................................... 171
Henry, Carl F.H. ....................................... 173
Henry, Matthew........................................ 174
Holiness Movement..................................... 176
Hubmaier, Balthasar .................................... 177
Huguenots............................................ 179
Huss, Jan ............................................. 181
Ignatius of Loyola....................................... 183
Inquisition............................................ 184
Irenaeus of Lyons....................................... 186
Isidore of Seville........................................ 187
Jehovah’s Witnesses ..................................... 189
Jerome ............................................... 190
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