TY - BOOK AU - Thompson, Glen L. TI - The ancient and medieval church (to A.D. 1400): an elementary textbook T2 - Asia Lutheran Seminary theological studies SN - 9789881416766 AV - BR 162.2 .A52 .T46 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Hong Kong PB - Published in cooperation with Asia Lutheran Seminary KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Church history--Middle Ages,600-1500 N1 - History and church history -- The Apostolic age -- Life in the Apostolic age -- Church and government -- The Apostles write -- The church grows -- The first martyrs -- The first heresies -- The first apologists -- The church conquers the empire -- Christianity deals with heresy -- The Trinitarian faith wins out -- Monasticism -- Church and empire work together -- The church rules the west -- The church splits in the east -- Augustine contends for the faith -- Jerome translates the Bible -- The faith of the ancient church -- A pope emerges in Rome -- A final try for church unity -- Muhammad and Islam -- Britain: from mission field to mission planter -- The Carolingians and the papacy -- Upheavals in the Byzantine church -- The gospel penetrates Europe -- Feudalism and monastic reform -- The tenth and eleventh centuries -- The church in Africa, India, and China -- The crusades -- The twelfth to fourteenth centuries -- Friars and scholastic -- Reformers, mystics and heretics -- Church doctrine in the middle ages ER -