Turning Points of General Church History
Today’s free book is Edward Cutt’s survey of church history from the New Testament to the Reformation. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain book available for digitisation.
Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Turning Points in General Church History. London: SPCK, 1887. Hbk. pp.451. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The World Prepred for the Church
- The Church in the Gospels
- The Apostolic Church
- Sketch of the Roman Empire to the Conversion of Constantine
- Nero’s Persecution og the Christians at Rome
- Piny’s Letter to Trajan
- The Rescript of Hadrian and Martyrdom of Polycarp
- The Merchantmen Seeking Godly Pearls
- The Martyrs of Vienne
- The Churches of Egypt and Africa
- The Martyrdom of Perpetua nd Felicitas
- Progress of the Church—Martyrdom of Cyprian
- THe Diocletian Persecution—THe Conversion of Constantine
- The Constitution of the Primitive Church
- Relations of Church and State
- The Church Buildings—the Catacombs
- The Worship of the Primitive Church
- Early Heresies and Schisms
- Sketch of the Empire from the Death of Constantine to that of Theodosius
- The Arian Controversy
- The Triumph of the Church
- The Extention of the Church Outside the Empire
- The Fathers of the Church
- Monasticism
- The Disruption of the Roman Empire and COnversion of the Barbarians
- The Eastern Empire from the Death of Theodosius to that of Justinian
- The Second, Third, Fpourth and Fifth General Councils
- The Eastern Empire from the Death of Justinian to that of Heraclitus
- The Mohammedan Conquests
- The Growth of the Papacy
- The Empire of CharlemagneThe Fark Ages of the Western Church
- The Conversion of the Northern Nations
- The Conversion of the Slavonic Nations
- The Hilderbrandine Period
- The Crusades
- The Waldenses and Albigenses
- The Popes at Avignon and the Great Schism
- The Reforming Councils of the Fifteenth Century
- The Greek Empire and Church from Irene to the Fall of the Eastern Empire
- Mediaeval Developments
- The Reformation
Image credit: An Eastern Roman mosaic showing a basilica with towers, mounted with Christian crosses, 5th century, Louvre – source: Wikipedia