History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100

About this book

The first volume of Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church, covering apostolic Christianity, A.D. 1-100. Schaff describes the preparation in Judaism and the pagan world, the life of Christ, and the age of the apostles. Learned, reverent, and readable, it opens the standard evangelical church history of the nineteenth century.

Contents

1. Preface to the Revised Edition
2. From the Preface to the First Edition
3. Preface to the Third Revision
4. Addenda
5. Literature
6. Nature of Church History
7. Branches of Church History
8. Sources of Church History
9. Periods of Church History
10. Uses of Church History
11. Duty of the Historian
12. Literature of Church History
13. Preparation for Christianity in the History of the Jewish
14. Central Position of Christ in the History of the World
15. Judaism
16. The Law, and the Prophecy
17. Heathenism
18. Grecian Literature, and the Roman Empire 🔒
19. Judaism and Heathenism in Contact 🔒
20. Sources and Literature 🔒
21. The Founder of Christianity 🔒
22. Chronology of the Life of Christ 🔒
23. The Land and the People 🔒
24. Aprocyphal Traditions 🔒
25. The Resurrection of Christ 🔒
26. Sources and Literature of the Apostolic Age 🔒
27. The Critical Reconstruction of the History of the Apostolic Age 🔒
28. Chronology of the Apostolic Age 🔒
29. The Miracle of Pentecost and the Birthday of the Christian Church. A.D. 30. 🔒
30. The Church of Jerusalem and the Labors of Peter 🔒
31. The Peter of History and the Peter of Fiction 🔒
32. James the Brother of the Lord 🔒
33. Preparation for the Mission to the Gentiles 🔒
34. St. Paul and the Conversion of the Gentiles 🔒
35. Sources and Literature on St. Paul and his Work 🔒
36. Paul before his Conversion 🔒
37. The Conversion of Paul 🔒
38. The Work of Paul 🔒
39. Paul's Missionary Labors 🔒
40. The Synod of Jerusalem, and the Compromise between Jewish and Gentile Christianity 🔒
41. The Conservative Reaction, and the Liberal Victory - Peter and Paul at Antioch 🔒
42. Christianity in Rome 🔒
43. The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution 🔒
44. The Jewish War and the Destruction of Jerusalem. A.D. 70 🔒
45. Effects of the Destruction of Jerusalem on the Christian Church 🔒
46. The Johannean Literature 🔒
47. Life and Character of John 🔒
48. Apostolic Labors of John 🔒
49. Traditions Respecting John 🔒
50. Christian Life in the Apostolic Church 🔒
51. The Power of Christianity 🔒
52. The Spiritual Gifts 🔒
53. Christianity in Individuals 🔒
54. Christianity and the Family 🔒
55. Christianity and Slavery 🔒
56. Christianity and Society 🔒
57. Spiritual Condition of the Congregations.--The Seven Churches in Asia 🔒
58. Worship in the Apostolic Age 🔒
59. The Synagogue 🔒
60. Christian Worship 🔒
61. The Several Parts of Worship 🔒
62. Baptism 🔒
63. he Lord's Supper 🔒
64. Sacred Places 🔒
65. Sacred Times--The Lord's Day 🔒
66. Literature 🔒
67. The Christian Ministry, and its Relation to the Christian Community 🔒
68. Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists 🔒
69. Presbyters or Bishops. The Angels of the Seven Churches. James of Jerusalem 🔒
70. Deacons and Deaconesses 🔒
71. Church Discipline 🔒
72. The Council at Jerusalem 🔒
73. The Church and the Kingdom of Christ 🔒
74. Literature 🔒
75. Unity of Apostolic Teaching 🔒
76. Different Types of Apostolic Teaching 🔒
77. The Jewish Christian Theology--I. James and the Gospel of Law 🔒
78. II. Peter and the Gospel of Hope 🔒
79. The Gentile Christian Theology. Paul and the Gospel of Faith 🔒
80. John and the Gospel of Love 🔒
81. Heretical Perversions of the Apostolic Teaching 🔒
82. Literature 🔒
83. Rise of the Apostolic Literature 🔒
84. Character of the New Testament 🔒
85. Literature on the Gospels 🔒
86. The Four Gospels 🔒
87. The Synoptists 🔒
88. Matthew 🔒
89. Mark 🔒
90. Luke 🔒
91. John 🔒
92. Critical Review of the Johannean Problem 🔒
93. The Acts of the Apostles 🔒
94. The Epistles 🔒
95. The Catholic Epistles 🔒
96. The Epistles of Paul 🔒
97. The Epistles to the Thessalonians 🔒
98. The Epistles to the Corinthians 🔒
99. The Epistles to the Galatians 🔒
100. The Epistle to the Romans 🔒
101. The Epistles of the Captivity 🔒
102. The Epistle to the Colossians 🔒
103. The Epistle to the Ephesians 🔒
104. Colossians and Ephesians Compared and Vindicated 🔒
105. The Epistle to the Philippians 🔒
106. The Epistle to Philemon 🔒
107. The Pastoral Epistles 🔒
108. The Epistle To The Hebrews 🔒
109. The Apocalypse 🔒
110. Concluding Reflections. Faith and Criticism 🔒