Eerdmans' handbook to the history of Christianity / 
 Handbook to the history of Christianity 
organizing editor, Tim Dowley ; consulting editors, John H.Y. Briggs, Robert D. Linder, David F. Wright. 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - Grand Rapids :  Eerdmans,  1977. 
 - xxiv, 656 p. :  some col. ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>God and history. God, time and history / John Briggs -- Beginnings 1-325. The church expands / W. Ward Gasque ; What the first Christians believed / David F. Wright -- Acceptance and conquest 325-600. Constantine and the Christian empire / Richard Todd ; Councils and creeds / David Wright ; The fall of the Roman empire / Richard Todd ; Christian ascetics and monks / Michael Smith -- A Christian society 600-1500. The West in crisis / Harry Rosenberg ; The Eastern church / Harlie Gallatin ; Flowering : the Western church / Robert Clouse ; An age of unrest / Ronald Finucane -- Reform 1500-1650. Seeds of renewal / Philip McNair ; Reform / James Atkinson ; Rome responds / Robert Linder -- Reason, revival and revolution 1650-1789. Awakening / A. Skevington Wood ; Expansion worldwide / James De Jong ; Reason and unreason / Colin Brown -- Cities and empires 1789-1914. Europe in revolt / Wayne Detzler ; The first industrial nation / John Briggs ; The ascent of man / Colin Brown ; Outposts of empire / Andrew Walls -- Towards 2000. An age of ideology / Richard Pierard ; An age of anxiety / Anthony Thiselton ; An age of liberation / C. René Padilla. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802834507 9780802834508 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77005616 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR146  / .E35 1977 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 270  / E26H