Church History to the Separation of East and West

Today’s free book is A.R. Whitham’s survey of the history of the church until the time fo Great Schism in 1054. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

Arthur Richard Whitham [1863-1930], The History of the Christian Church to the Separation of East and West, 4th edn. London: Rivingtons, 1963. Hbk. pp.354. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface

1. The Way Prepared
2. The Apostolic Period
3. The Age of Transition
4. Early Christian Writings
5. The Beginnings of Christian Defence
6. Persecutio and Protest Under the Antonines
7. Early Heresies
8. The Church’s Reply to Heresy
9. Alexandria: Constructive Reply to Heresy and Heathenism
10. The Early Church at Rome
11. Third Centiry Persecutions and Their Results
12. Diocletian: The Great Persecution
13. Constantine
14. Arianism
15. The Council of Nicaea
16. Arianism After Nicaea. (i) The Arian Attack
17. Arianism After Nicaea. (i) The Arian Councils
18. Julian and the PAgan Reaction
19. The Triumph of Catholicism
20. The West: S. Ambrose and S. Augustine
21. S. Jerome and S. Chrystostom
22. Nestorius and Eutyches
23. The Fall of the West Empire: The Rise of the Papacy
24. Monasticism
25. The East After Chalcedon
26. Mohammedanism and Iconoclasm
27. East and West

• Index