Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes index.

Originally published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, �1951.

Part 1: When the Christian church was young: The New Testament Church is born -- The Church is tempered, 33-313 -- The Church grows inwardly, 33-325 -- The Church is victorious, 313 -- The Church consolidates, 325-451 -- The Church deteriorates, 100-461-- The Church survives and grows again, 376-754

Part 2: The Church in the Middle Ages: The Church loses territory, 632-732 -- The Church forms and alliance, 751-800 -- The Church and Papal development, 461-1073 -- The Church in bondage to the state, 885-1049 -- The Church divided, 1054 -- Monasticism and the Cluny Reform -- The Church makes efforts to free itself, 1049-1058 -- The Church continues to free itself, 105901073 -- The Church is forced to compromise, 1073-1122 -- The Church inspires the Crusades, 1096-1291 -- The Church rises to its height of power, 1294-1417 --The Church declines in power, 1294-1417 -- The Church is stirred from within, 1200-1517

Part 3: The Church in the Reformation: The Church is shaken, Oct. 31, 1517 -- The Church is convulsed, 1517-1521 -- The Church is Reformed in Germany -- The Reformation in Switzerland -- The Anabaptists -- The Reformation in Western Europe -- The Church is Reformed in Scotland, 1557-1570 -- The Church is Reformed in England, 1534-1563 -- The Roman Church undertakes reform, 1545-1563 -- The Protestant Churches fight for their lives, 1546-1648

Part 4: The Church after the Reformation: The Church in England continues to ferment, 1558-1689 -- The Congegationalists; the Baptists -- Arminianism; the Quakers -- Pietism; the Moravians -- Socinianism; Unitarianism; Modernism -- The Methodists -- The Eastern and the Roman Church -- Religious life in Germany and England -- The Reformed churches survive persecution -- The Church grows once more, 1500 to the present

Part 5: The Church in the new world: The Church enters the New World -- The Church experiences a Great Awakening -- The Church as the Young Nation is formed -- The Church in the Early Nineteenth Century -- The Church in a time of turmoil -- The Church faces new problems -- The Church in Canada -- The Church seeks to preserve the faith -- The Churches seek Co-operation and Union -- A look backward and forward