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.