Church History
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Introduction to Church History
The Biblical Church: The Church In Its Jewish Context
The Biblical Church: Christ and His Disciples
The Biblical Church: The Church Reaches Outward
The Biblical Church: The Final Apostles
The Post-Bible Church: Redefining "Church"
The Post-Bible Church: The Emergence of the Apostolic Fathers
The Post-Bible Church: Theology By Debate (Round 1)
The Emperors: Hadrian and His Final Solutions
The Emperors: Marcus Aurelius and Polycarp
The Emperors: Commodus and the Beginnings of the Fall
The Emperors: Septimus Severus and Persecution
The Emperors: The Severan Dynasty and Internal Turmoil
The Emperors: The Decian and Valerian Persecutions
The Emperors: Diocletian and the Great Persecution
The Emperors: Constantine and the Dawn of Christendom
Constantine: The Thirteenth Apostle? (Part 1)
Constantine: The Thirteenth Apostle? (Part 2)
The Establishment of Christendom
Fathers of the New Church: Augustine
Fathers of the New Church: Chrysostom
Fathers of the New Church: Patrick
Things Fall Apart: Attila and Jerome
Things Fall Apart: Nestorius, Eutyches, and the "Robber Council"
Things Fall Apart: The Sack of Rome
Flagrant Abuses of Authority: Zeno, Theodoric, and Clovis
Auctoritas Sacrata Pontificum: Gelasius
The Rise of the Monk: Benedict, Brendan, and Dennis
The Politics of Death: Justinian and Columba
Kingdoms of God: The Politics of God's Kingdoms
Streamlining the Church: The Apostles' Creed
Streamlining the Church: Battlegrounds
The Carolingians: Charles Martel vs. the Moors
The Carolingians: Pepin and Feudalism
The Carolingians: Charlemagne--The Second Council of Nicaea
The Carolingians: Charlemagne--Reformation and Empire
The Northmen: The Venerable Bede
The Northmen: The Christianization of the Vikings
Centuries of In-Fighting: The "Cadaver Synod" and the Saeculum Obscurum
Centuries of In-Fighting: Anti-Popes, Mahdis, and a Germanic Roman Empire
Centuries of In-Fighting: The Peace of God and the Truce of God (aka "The Birth of Chivalry")
West vs. East: Normans, Turks, and Berbers
West vs. East: Leo IX and the Great Schism
West vs. East: The Normans in England, El Cid in Spain
The First Crusade(s): The New "Crusader States"
The Crusades Become a Fad: Anselm, Vinland, and the Knights Hospitaller (and Templar)
The Crusades Become a Fad: Peter Abélard, Peter of Bruys, and the Almohads
The Crusades Become a Fad: Second Crusade, European Crusades, and Prester John
The Crusades Become a Fad: Henry II vs. Thomas Becket, Saladin, and Peter Waldo
The Crusades Become a Fad: King Richard vs. Prince John, and Lots of Excommunications
Kill 'em All—Let God Sort 'em Out: Franciscans, Dominicans, and the Magna Carta
Kill 'em All—Let God Sort 'em Out: Crusades by the Professionals
Kill 'em All—Let God Sort 'em Out: Mongols, Teutonic Knights, and the Inquisition
The Last Crusades (plus Roger Bacon, the Disputation of Barcelona, and Thomas Aquinas)
The Renaissance: Welcome to the Renaissance
The Renaissance: The Black Death and a Century of War
Wobbling Out of Control: Tamerlane, John Wycliffe, and the Western Schism
Wobbling Out of Control: Even More Schisms, Jan Hus, and the Order of the Dragon
Wobbling Out of Control: Families (Medici, Borgia, Hapsburg, and Plantagenet)
Wobbling Out of Control: Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, and the Gutenberg Bible
Falling Into Spiritual Collapse: The Rise of Empires (Especially Spain)
Falling Into Spiritual Collapse: The Borgia and Medici Popes, Erasmus, Macchiavelli
The Reformation: Martin Luther
The Reformation: Conquests of Various Kinds (Including Henry VIII vs. Thomas More)
The Reformation: The New Martyrdom of the Church
The Reformation: Die Warhet Ist Untödlich
The Reformation: Calvinists and Mennonites (Part 1)
The Reformation: Calvinists and Mennonites (Part 2)
The Counter-Reformation: Jesuits and Book Controversies
The Counter-Reformation: Aztec Genocide and the Council of Trent
The Counter-Reformation: Martin Butzer, German Independence, and Michael Servetus
The Religious Wars: John Knox and the Three Queen Marys
The Religious Wars: French Wars of Religion and the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean
The Religious Wars: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Three Henrys
The Religious Wars: The Spanish Armada, the End of the Wars of Religion, and How to Read Revelation
The Proto-Enlightenment: King James, Jamestown, Pocahontas, Puritans, and Baptists
The New World: Galileo, the Pilgrims, New France, New Amsterdam, and Fumi-e
The New World: "A City on a Hill," "Soul Liberty," "Free Grace," and Pure-Pure Puritans
The Religious Wars (End): English Civil Wars, Westminster Confession, Quakers, and Beheading a King
The Age of Enlightenment: Oliver Cromwell
The Age of Enlightenment: Jesuit Missionaries, William Penn, and the Pietists
The Seeds of Revolution: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, The Plague of Vienna, and the Siege of Vienna
The Seeds of Revolution: The Chinese Rites, Brother Lawrence, and the Amish
The Seeds of Revolution: Spanish Succession, Queen Anne's War, and the Great Frost
Proto-Revolutions: Son of the Jacobite Rebellion, Löscher vs. the Pietists, Voltaire
Proto-Revolutions: Pirates, Tulips, Jacobites, and the First Prime Minister
Proto-Revolutions: Pyotr the Great, Zinzendorf and the Moravians, Why Organs Are Evil, etc.
Wake-Up Calls: Jonathan Swift, The Great Awakening, Hume vs. Campbell
Wake-Up Calls: War of Jenkins' Ear, Friedrich the Great, New Presbyterians, and John Newton
Wake-Up Calls: More Jacobite Rebellions, Peter Sanz, Junípero Serra, and the Guaraní War
Wake-Up Calls: Ben Franklin, George Berkeley, Samuel Johnson, the Seven Years' War, George III
Intolerables: Catherine the Great, Augustus Toplady and Rock of Ages, the Stamp Act, Joseph II
Intolerables: Persecution for the Jesuits, Captain Cook, California, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
American Revolution: The Industrial Revolution, The Flour War, The American Revolution (part 1)
Age of Revolution: Sunday Schools, Immanuel Kant, Serfdom and Slavery (and William Wilberforce)
Age of Revolution: Mt. Laki, Treaty of Paris, the Methodists, the Little Turtle War
The Napoleonic Era: Aaron Burr, Tecumseh's War, Robert Morrison, the End of Slavery in Britain
The Napoleonic Era: The War of 1812 (and Indian Wars), the Baptists, Peter the Aleut, Mt. Tambora
Soldiering for Christ: Civil War Hits America... and Mexico... and Japan...
Soldiering for Christ: Post-War America, The Salvation Army
Soldiering for Christ: Henry Egly, Fanny Crosby, Carrie Nation, the First Vatican Council
Conflagrations: Great Sioux War, JEPD Hypothesis, Christian Science, South African Wars, Ben-Hur
Conflicts of the "Greatest Generation": Nag Hammadi Codices, Chinese Civil War, The Cold War Begins