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Chapter 1 The Study of Christianity Through Primary Sources 1 -- The Study of Christianity 2 -- The Nature and Variety of the Readings 6 -- Primary Sources of Christianity and the World Wide Web 9 -- Suggestions for Reading Profitably 11 -- Chapter 2 Biblical Foundations 15 -- Names 17 -- Historical Sketch 17 -- Uses 23 -- Events 25 -- The Call of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-7) 25 -- Deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 14:5-8, 10-11, 13-26, 28, 31) 26 -- Ezra's Enforcement of Law Observance (Ezra 9:1-6; 10:3-12) 27 -- The Birth of Jesus the Messiah (Matthew 1:18-25) 28 -- Jesus' Miracles (Luke 8:26-56) 28 -- The Arrest, Trial and Death of Jesus (Mark 14:43-50, 53-65; 15:1-41) 29 -- The Resurrection of Jesus (Mark 16:1-8) 31 -- The Coming of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-21) 32 -- Persecution of the Apostles (Acts 5:27-35, 38-42) 33 -- Two Views of the Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-21, Galatians 2:1-10) 33 -- Institution 35 -- The Twelve Apostles and Their Mission (Matthew 10:1-15) 35 -- Peter as the Rock (Matthew 16:13-20) 35 -- Early and Late Pauline Teaching on Church Leadership (Romans 16:1-7; I Timothy 3:1-13) 36 -- The Eucharist (Matthew 26:17-19, 26-29; John 6:35-51) 37 -- Baptism (Matthew 28:16-20; Romans 6:1-11) 37 -- Women in the Church (Luke 10:38-42; I Corinthians 11:2-16; Galatians 3:27-28; I Timothy 2:8-15) 38 -- Teaching 39 -- Creation and Revolt (Genesis 1:26-2:9; 2:15-3:24) 39 -- The Oneness of God (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) 41 -- The Parables of Jesus (Mark 4:1-34; Luke 10:29-37) 42 -- The Word Became Human (John 1:1-18) 43 -- Attack on Gnosis (I John 4:1-6) 44 -- Results of Justification (Romans 5:1-11) 44 -- The End of Time (Matthew 25:31-46; Revelation 20:1-21:4) 45 -- Ethics 46 -- The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-19) 46 -- The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) 47 -- Love (I Corinthians 13:1-13) 51 -- Ethics in the Christian Household (Ephesians 5:21-6:9) 51 -- Relations 52 -- Christians and Gentile Life (Romans 1:18-32; I Corinthians 8; Acts 17:22-28) 52 -- Paul on Judaism (Romans 2:17-3:4) 53 -- Two Attitudes toward Government (Romans 13:1-10; Revelation 17:1-8; 18:1-5) 54 -- Chapter 3 Ancient Christianity (100-500) 58 -- Names 59 -- Historical Sketch 61 -- Events 66 -- The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul Recollected (Clement, First Epistle to the Corinthians 5) 66 -- Roman Investigation of Christians (Pliny, Letters 10.96, 97) 66 -- Martyrdom of a Young Christian Woman (Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas, Preface, 1.1-2, 2.2, 6.1-4) 68 -- The Great Persecutions (Lactantius, The Deaths of the Persecutors 11-13) 70 -- The Victory and Conversion of Constantine (Eusebius, Life of Constantine) 71 -- The Edict of Toleration (Lactantius, The Death of the Persecutors 48) 72 -- Theodosius' Prohibition of Worship of the Roman Gods (Theodosian Code 16:10, 12) 73 -- Institution 74 -- Papal Primacy Derived from Petrine Primacy (Pope Leo I, Sermons 4.2-4) 74 -- The Scripture Canon in Formation (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27.2; Muratorian Canon) 75 -- Offices of the Church in the Second Century (Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians 4.2-6.3) 77 -- The Deaconess (Teaching of the Apostles 3.15-17) 78 -- An Ancient Christian Service (Justin, Apology 65-66) 78 -- Baptism in the Second and Third Centuries (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles [Didache] 7; Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition 3.21.1-3.22.6) 79 -- The Eucharist (Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition 43) 80 -- A Pilgrim Nun Worships in Eastern-Rite Jerusalem (Egeria and Her Travels 24-25) 81 -- The Beginnings of Monasticism (Athanasius, Life of Saint Anthony 2, 5, 9, 14, 47) 83 -- The Earliest Surviving Hymn (Oxyrhynchus Papyri 15.1786) 84 -- Teaching 85 -- The Rule of Faith (Tertullian, Prescription against Heretics 13) 85 -- Gnostic Christianity and Orthodox Christianity in Conflict (Gospel of Truth 34-41; Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Preface 1.1-2, 7.1-5) |
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85 -- Women and Gnosticism (Gospel of Mary 7.8-18) 88 -- The Threefold Interpretation of Scripture Explained and Illustrated (Origen, On First Principles 4.2.4-4.3.5; Homily on Luke 2) 89 -- The Ecumenical Creeds (Apostles', Original Nicene, Niceno-Constantinopolitan, Chalcedonian) 91 -- The Arian Controversy (Letter of Arius to Eusebius of Nicomedia; Letter of Constantine to the Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Egypt; Athanasius, Against the Arians 3.4) 92 -- Pelagius and Augustine on Free Will, Human Responsibility, and Divine Election (Pelagius, Letter to Demetrias; Augustine, Admonition and Grace 1.2, 2.3-4, 7.13, 17; The Decrees of the Council of Carthage) 94 -- Popular Christian Beliefs on Death and Eternal Life (Roman Catacomb Inscriptions) 96 -- Ethics 97 -- The Two Ways (Didache 1, 5-6) 97 -- Christian Morality in Diverse Cultures (Epistle to Diognetus 5) 98 -- Two Views of War (Tertullian, On the Crown 11; Augustine, The City of God 19.7) 99 -- Augustine's Conversion (Confessions 8.12.28-30) 100 -- Relations 101 -- Opposing Attitudes toward Greek Philosophy (Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1; Tertullian, Prescription against the Heretics 7) 101 -- Popular Opposition to Christians (The Alexamenos Graffito) 102 -- Christianity and Judaism (Justin, Dialogue with Trypho 68; John Chrysostom, Sermons against Judaizing Christians 8.5) 103 -- Conflict between Christian Emperor and Church (Ambrose, Letters 20.19, 22-28) 104 -- Christianity and the Fall of Rome (Augustine, City of God 2.2-3) 106 -- Augustine on the Suppression of Heresy (Letters 23.7, 93.16-17, 185.11-24) 107 -- Chapter 4 Christianity in Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance Times (500-1500) 110 -- Names 111 -- Historical Sketch 113 -- Events 117 -- Benedict's Life and Miracles (Pope Gregory I, Dialogues on the Lives and Miracles of the Italian Fathers 2, Preface) 117 -- Two Early Missions (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England, 1.23, 25; John of Monte Corvino, Letter from China) 118 -- Pope Urban II Calls for a Crusade, and a Noble Dissent (Acts of God through Francis 1.382-384; Roger Niger, On a Military Matter) 120 -- East and West Formally Separate (Humbert of Silva Candida, Letter Excommunicating Michael Cerularius; Michael Cerularius, Decree of Excommunication) 121 -- Popular Religious Responses to the Great Plague (Jean le Bel, True Chronicles, for the years 1347-48) 123 -- Women and Witchcraft (Heinrich Kraemer and Jacob Sprenger, Hammer against Witches) 124 -- Historical Criticism Begins in the Italian Renaissance (Lorenzo Valla, Theological Calumnies) 125 -- Institution 126 -- The Organization of Monastic Communities (The Benedictine Rule 22, 33, 38, 58) 126 -- The Iconoclastic Controversy (John of Damascus, On Holy Images 4.16; Decree of the Council of 754; Decree of the Seventh Ecumenical Council [787]) 127 -- Mandatory Celibacy of the Roman Catholic Clergy (Body of Canon Law 81.15) 130 -- Devotion to the Virgin Mary (Caesar of Heisterbach, Dialogues on Miracles 7.34; Akathistos Hymn; Hail Mary and Angelus Prayers) 130 -- The Jesus Prayer (Symeon the New Theologian, Method of Holy Prayer and Attention) 132 -- The Late Medieval View of Death ("Day of Wrath" Hymn) 133 -- Teaching 134 -- The First Eucharistic Debate (Paschasius Radbertus, Christ's Body and Blood 1, 3, 4; Ratramnus, Christ's Body and Blood 5-11, 49) 134 -- Scholastic Argument on Proving the Existence of God (Anselm, Preface 2-3; Gaunilo, Response to Anselm; Aquinas, Summa theologiae 1a, Q. 2) 135 -- The Relationship of Faith and Reason (Aquinas, Summa theologiae 1a. 1.1) 138 -- Theories of the Atonement (Anselm, Why God Became Human 1.25; Abelard, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans 3) 139 -- Mystical Views of Christ (Hildegard of Bingen, Visions 2; Catherine of Siena, Dialogue 26-28; Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love 58) 140 -- The High Point of Renaissance Humanism (Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man") 143 -- Ethics 144 -- A Christian Mother's Instructions to Her Son (Dhuoda, Manual of William) 144 -- Christians and the Natural World (Francis of Assisi, "The Song of Brother Sun") 146 -- Complaints about University Students (Alvarus Pelagius, The Church's Complaint) 147 -- The Discipline of the Inner Life (Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ 2.1) 148 -- Relations 149 -- Byzantine Views of Church and Empire (Justinian, The New Laws, Title 6: Sixth New Constitution, Preface of the First Collection) 149 -- A Christian Elf Charm (The Cotton Caligula Manuscript) 149 -- Christianity and Islam in Conflict (Quran 2: 105-115; Aquinas, Summa against the Pagans 1.2.3, 1.6.4) 151 -- The Peace of God and the Truce of God (Declaration of the Synod of Charroux; Declaration of Drogo, Bishop of Terouanne) 152 -- The Investiture Controversy (Henry IV, Letter to Pope Gregory VII; Pope Gregory VII, Letter to Henry) 153 -- Chapter 5 Reform in Western Christianity (1500-1600) 157 -- Names 159 -- Historical Sketch 160 -- Events 164 -- A Critique of the Church's Ills (Erasmus, The Praise of Folly) 164 -- Sermon for the Sale of Indulgences (Tetzel, Specimen Sermon 2) 165 -- Luther's Protest against Indulgences (Martin Luther, Ninety-Five Theses) 166 -- Luther Defies Charges of Heresy (Martin Luther, Speech before the Diet at Worms) 167 -- The Peasants' Revolt (Thomas Muntzer, Vindication and Refutation; Twelve Articles of the Peasants; Martin Luther, Against the Murdering and Pillaging Peasants) 168 -- The Trial and Death of Michael Sattler (T. van Braght, Martyr's Mirror) 171 -- The King of England Becomes Head of the Anglican Church (English Parliament, Supremacy Act) 172 -- The Execution of Michael Servetus Contested (David Joris, Letter to Servetus's Judges; Court of Geneva, Verdict and Sentence for Michael Servetus) 172. |
