2000 Years of Christ's Power, Vol. 4 (Paperback)
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2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4
Author: Nick Needham
The Renaissance and Reformation were exciting times of learning and discovery - they pushed the boundaries of accepted thought. The repercussions of this, however, were that they left in their wake a period of universal uncertainty. The centuries-old status quo had been turned on its head. Nothing was stable anymore. Conflict ensued.
The fourth volume of 2,000 Years of Christ's Power spans from the 16th to the 18th century. It presents a time from which English Protestantism, Scottish Presbyterianism, and French Catholicism, to name only a few, were birthed and refined. Perhaps few eras have had such a direct impact on the characteristics of our own period of history.
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Chapter 1
Germany and the Lutheran Faith
- A house divided: the post-Luther controversies and the Formula of Concord
- Lutheran Orthodoxy
- The Thirty Years’ War: the holy text of pike and gun
- Pietism: religion of the heart
- Dawn of the Protestant missionary movement
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Chapter 2
The Reformed Faith
Introduction
- Reformed Orthodoxy
- The Arminian controversy and the Synod of Dort
- Amyraldianism: the debate that never died
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Chapter 3
England: The Puritan Era. Part One
- Puritanism: The problem of definition
- The origins of Puritanism and Separatism
- Struggles and schisms: the Elizabethan odyssey
- The Jacobean Church: of Bibles, Pilgrim Fathers, and High Churchmen
- Charles I and the English Civil War
- The English Revolution: the world turned upside down
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Chapter 4
England: The Puritan Era. Part Two
- Charles II: the Restoration regime
- James II and the Glorious Revolution
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Chapter 5
Scotland: The Crown Rights of the Redeemer
Introduction
- Of presbyters and kings: from Andrew Melville to the union of crowns
- South wind blowing: the Anglicizing of the Kirk
- The Covenanters: days of power
- The Covenanters: days of blood
- James VII: Presbyterians victorious
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Chapter 6
The Roman Catholic Church. Part One
- Introduction: the glory of France
- Roman Catholic piety
- Key figures
- Jansenism: the war about grace
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Chapter 7
The Roman Catholic Church. Part Two
- Gallicanism: who rules the French Church?
- Quietism: to be or not to be mystical
- Persecution: the fate of the Huguenots
- Roman Catholic Mission: experiments in the East
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Chapter 8
Eastern Orthodoxy
Introduction
- Cyril Lucaris: the Calvinist patriarch?
- Peter Moghila and his disciples
- The Old Believers: schism in the heart of Russia
- Peter the Great: the East looks West
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About the Author:
Nick Needham is the Church History lecturer at Highland Theological College in Dingwall and the minister at Inverness Reformed Baptist Church. Previous to this, he taught Systematic Theology at Scottish Baptist College in Glasgow. He is author of the highly collectable 2,000 Years of Christ's Power series.