Short History of the Christian Church

The present work has as its basis the series of five Short Histories by the same author, which appeared in the following order: The Reformation, 1884; The Early Church, 1886; The Medieval Church, 1887; The Modern Church in Europe, 1888; and The Church in the United States, 1890. The five volumes form a connected History of the Church nearly down to the present time.

John Fletcher Hurst was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He wrote the 5 histories as Chautauqua textbooks. The audio files are in the following order:

Part 1: The Early Church (A.D. 30-750)
Part 2: The Medieval Church (A.D. 750-1517)
Part 3: The Reformation (A.D. 1517-1545)
Part 4: The Modern Church in Europe (A.D. 1558-1892)
Part 5: The Church in the United States (A.D. 1492-1892)


By : John Fletcher Hurst (1834 - 1903)

000 - Preface



001 - 1.1 The Church and Its History



002 - 1.2 The Scene of the Labors of the Apostles



003 - 1.3 The Greek and Roman Conditions



004 - 1.4 The Attitude of Judaism towards Christianity



005 - 1.5 The Period of Universal Persecution



006 - 1.6 Christian Worship



007 - 1.7 The Life of Christians



008 - 1.8 Ecclesiastical Organization



009 - 1.9 Ebionism and Gnosticism



010 - 1.10 The Pagan Literary Attack



011 - 1.11 The Christian Defenders



012 - 1.12 The Christian Schools



013 - 1.13 Liberation under Constantine



014 - 1.14 Reaction under Julian



015 - 1.15 The Montanistic Reform



016 - 1.16 Controversies on Christ



017 - 1.17 The Later Controversies



018 - 1.18 Ecclesiastical Schisms



019 - 1.19 The Scriptures and Tradition



020 - 1.20 Apocryphal Writings



021 - 1.21 Theology During the Early Period



022 - 1.22 Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy



023 - 1.23 Sacred Seasons and Public Worship



024 - 1.24 Ecclesiastical Discipline



025 - 1.25 Christian Life and Usages



026 - 1.26 The Church in the Catacombs



027 - 1.27 Monasticism



028 - 1.28 The Age of Gregory the Great



029 - 1.29 The Expansion of Christianity



030 - 1.30 The Close of the Early Period



031 - 2.1 The Medieval Transition



032 - 2.2 The Reign of Charlemagne



033 - 2.3 Church and State under the Later Carolingian Rulers



034 - 2.4 The Fictitious Isidore



035 - 2.5 Mohammedanism



036 - 2.6 The Schools of Charlemagne



037 - 2.7 Theological Movements



038 - 2.8 The Rule of the Popes



039 - 2.9 The Gregorian Reform



040 - 2.10 Moral Life and Ecclesiastical Usages



041 - 2.11 The Public Services



042 - 2.12 The Writers of the Times



043 - 2.13 New Missions



044 - 2.14 Schism between the East and the West



045 - 2.15 The Anglo-Saxon Church



046 - 2.16 Arnold of Brescia



047 - 2.17 The Waldenses and the Albigenses



048 - 2.18 Thomas Becket



049 - 2.19 The Monastic Orders



050 - 2.20 Monasteries as Centres of Intellectual Life



051 - 2.21 Christian Art



052 - 2.22 Christian Worship



053 - 2.23 The Crusades: A.D. 1096-1270



054 - 2.24 Arabic Philosophy



055 - 2.25 The Hohenstaufens in Italy



056 - 2.26 The Jewish Philosophy



057 - 2.27 The Scholastic Philosophy



058 - 2.28 Abelard and his Fortunes



059 - 2.29 General Literature



060 - 2.30 The Great Schools



061 - 2.31 The Divided Papacy



062 - 2.32 Retrospect



063 - 3.1 The Heralds of Protestantism



064 - 3.2 The Humanism of Italy



065 - 3.3 The Reformatory Councils



066 - 3.4 The German Reformation: Martin Luther



067 - 3.5 Luther: Further Labors and Personal Character



068 - 3.6 Melanchthon and other German Reformers



069 - 3.7 The Reformation in German Switzerland



070 - 3.8 The Reformation in French Switzerland



071 - 3.9 The English Reformation: First Period



072 - 3.10 The English Reformation: Second Period



073 - 3.11 The Scotch Reformation



074 - 3.12 The Reformation in the Netherlands



075 - 3.13 The Reformation in France



076 - 3.14 The Reformation in Italy



077 - 3.15 The Reformation in Spain and Portugal



078 - 3.16 The Reformation in Scandinavia



079 - 3.17 The Reformation in the Slavic Lands



080 - 3.18 Survey of Results



081 - 3.19 The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Luther's Birth



082 - 4.1 Recuperative Measures of Romanism



083 - 4.2 The Order of Jesuits



084 - 4.3 The English Church under James I and Charles I



085 - 4.4 The English Puritans



086 - 4.5 The Quakers



087 - 4.6 Cromwell and the Commonwealth



088 - 4.7 The Church During the Restoration



089 - 4.8 English Deism



090 - 4.9 The Protestant Church in Germany



091 - 4.10 Mysticism in Germany



092 - 4.11 The Thirty Years' War



093 - 4.12 The Protestant Emigration to America



094 - 4.13 Arminius and the Synod of Dort



095 - 4.14 The Salzburg Persecution



096 - 4.15 Spener and Pietism



097 - 4.16 The Moravians



098 - 4.17 Swedenborg and the New Church



099 - 4.18 Rationalism in Germany



100 - 4.19 The Evangelical Reaction



101 - 4.20 French Mysticism and Flemish Jansenism



102 - 4.21 French Infidelity



103 - 4.22 French Protestantism



104 - 4.23 The Russo-Greek Church



105 - 4.24 Wesley and Methodism



106 - 4.25 The Tractarian Movement



107 - 4.26 The Schools in the Church of England



108 - 4.27 The English Universities



109 - 4.28 Scholars and Divines of the English Church



110 - 4.29 Puritan and Presbyterian Scholars and Divines



111 - 4.30 Critical Periods in the History of the Scottish Church



112 - 4.31 The Ekskine Schism and the Haldane Revival



113 - 4.32 The Great Disruption



114 - 4.33 Learning and Literary Culture in the Roman Catholic Church



115 - 4.34 The Growth of Mary-Worship



116 - 4.35 The End of the Temporal Power of the Papacy



117 - 4.36 The Contest with Germany



118 - 4.37 The Survival of Superstition



119 - 4.38 Roman Catholicism in England



120 - 4.39 The Vatican Council



121 - 4.40 The Old Catholics



122 - 4.41 The Evangelical Alliance



123 - 4.42 The Sunday-School



124 - 4.43 The Revision of the Bible



125 - 4.44 The Protestant Mission Field



126 - 4.45 The Temperance Reform



127 - 4.46 Philanthropy in England and Germany



128 - 4.47 English Preachers



129 - 4.48 Literature and Religion in England



130 - 4.49 The Salvation Army



131 - 4.50 Survey of Religious Life on the Continent



132 - 5.1.1 The New Christendom



133 - 5.1.2 The Spanish Colonization



134 - 5.1.3 The French Colonization



135 - 5.1.4 The English Colonization: Virginia and Massachusetts



136 - 5.1.5 Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other English Colonies



137 - 5.1.6 Continental Colonies: Dutch, Swedes, Huguenots, and other Protestants



138 - 5.1.7 The Providential Planting



139 - 5.1.8 Political Framework of the Colonies



140 - 5.1.9 Church Government in the Colonies



141 - 5.1.10 Education



142 - 5.1.11 Intolerance in the Colonies



143 - 5.1.12 Religious Life of the Colonies



144 - 5.1.13 Colonial Worship and Usages



145 - 5.1.14 Missions to the Indians



146 - 5.1.15 Theological Movements



147 - 5.1.16 Religious Literature



148 - 5.1.17 Early Leaders



149 - 5.1.18 The Influence of the Puritans



150 - 5.1.19 The Episcopal Defection in Connecticut



151 - 5.2.1 The Church at the Founding of the Republic



152 - 5.2.2 The Separation of Church and State



153 - 5.2.3 The French Infidelity



154 - 5.2.4 Revival at the Beginning of the Century



155 - 5.2.5 Expansion in the South and West



156 - 5.2.6 The Protestant Episcopal Church



157 - 5.2.7 The Congregational Church



158 - 5.2.8 The Reformed Churches



159 - 5.2.9 The Baptist Church



160 - 5.2.10 The Presbyterian Church



161 - 5.2.11 The Lutheran Church



162 - 5.2.12 American Methodism



163 - 5.2.13 The Roman Catholic Church



164 - 5.2.14 The Unitarian Church



165 - 5.2.15 The Universalist Church



166 - 5.2.16 The Moravian Church



167 - 5.2.17 Alexander Campbell and the Disciples of Christ



168 - 5.2.18 The Quakers



169 - 5.2.19 Other Denominations



170 - 5.2.20 The Transcendentalists



171 - 5.2.21 Communistic Churches



172 - 5.2.22 The Mormons



173 - 5.2.23 The Antislavery Reform



174 - 5.2.24 The Temperance Reform



175 - 5.2.25 Philanthropy and Christian Union



176 - 5.2.26 Missions



177 - 5.2.27 The Sunday-School



178 - 5.2.28 Christian Literature



179 - 5.2.29 The American Pulpit



180 - 5.2.30 Theology of the American Church



181 - 5.2.31 Theological Scholarship

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