Routledge Companion to Christian History

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Christian History</em> is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers:</p><ul> <li>all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the rise of Fundamentalism</li> <li>the impact of Islam, the Crusades, Monasticism, and the spread of popular religious movements</li> <li>cross-cultural coverage; as well as Western Christendom, the Orthodox churches of the East and the 'new' churches of Asia and Africa.</li> </ul><p>Fully cross referenced throughout with a combination of chronologies, glossary and statistics this packed volumes contains everything for the first time student or for anyone revisiting the subject. </p> <p>The Early Church. The Spread and Development of Christianity. The Conversion of the British Isles. The Impact of Islam. The Northern Crusades: The Teutonic Knights and Northern Europe. Papacy and Empire: The Struggle for Supremacy. Monasticism and Religious Orders. The Church Militant: The Crusades and the Holy Land. Medieval Heresy: The Albigensian Crusade. The Eastern Church: Iconoclasm 1054 and Rus 13. The Great Schism: The Avignon Papacy. Luther and the Reformation in Germany. Calvin Geneva and French Protestantism. The Reformation in England and Scotland. The Radical Reformation: Anabaptists. The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent The Church Revolutionary: Liberation Theology in Latin America. The Decline of European Christianity. The Church in the Contemporary World: Crisis and Controversies</p>