Church History in Plain Language Workbook

by Bruce Shelley, Stacey Shelley Lingle, Marshall Shelley (Editor)

Overview

This workbook is designed to accompany the fifth edition of Bruce Shelley's Church History in Plain Language.

Following the textbook's structure, this workbook offers discussion questions for group and personal reflection, assessments, activities, and resources for further study, all of which reinforce the textbook's teaching and support the students' learning experience.

The newest edition of Bruce Shelley's Church History in Plain Language brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. In this fifth edition, Marshall Shelley assembled a team of historians, historical theologians, and editors to revise and update his father's classic text. As a result, it now includes important stories of the development of Christianity in Asia, India, and Africa, both in the early church as well as in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also highlights the stories of women and non-Europeans who significantly influenced the development of Christianity but whose contributions are often overlooked in overviews of church history.

Covering recent events, this book also:

• Details the rapid growth of Christianity in the southern hemisphere
• Examines the influence of technology on the spread of the gospel
• Discusses how Christianity intersects with other religions in countries all over the world

Together with this workbook companion, the new edition of Church History in Plain Language provides an easy-to-read guide to global Christianity and promises to set a new standard for readable church history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310138976
Publisher:	Zondervan Academic
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	389,381
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marshall Shelley (MDiv, DD, Denver Seminary) is director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Denver Seminary. He has previously served as an editor and vice president at Christianity Today International for thirty-four years, including several years as executive editor of Christian History magazine.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Age of Jesus and the Apostles, 6 BC-AD 70

1 Away with the King! The Jesus Movement 3

2 Wineskins Old and New: The Gospel to the Gentiles 6

Part 2 The Age of Catholic Christianity, 70-312

3 Only "Worthless" People: Catholic Christianity 13

4 If the Tiber Floods: The Persecution of Christians 15

5 Arguing about the Event: The Rise of Orthodoxy 17

6 The Rule of Books: Formation of the Bible 20

7 School for Sinners: A Structure That Fits 22

8 Apostles to Intellectuals: Interacting with Other Worldviews 24

Digging Deeper: Homilies on Luke 26

9 Countries of the Sunrise: Early Christianity in Asia and Africa 29

Part 3 The Age of the Christian Roman Empire, 312-590

10 Laying Her Sceptre Down: Conversion of the Empire 35

11 Splitting Important Hairs: The Doctrine of the Trinity 37

Digging Deeper: Nicene Creed 39

12 Emmanuel! Christ in the Creeds 40

13 Exiles from Life: Beginnings of Monasticism 42

14 The Sage of the Ages: Augustine of Hippo 44

Digging Deeper: Confessions 46

15 Peter as "Pontifex Maximus": Beginnings of the Papacy 47

16 Somewhere between Heaven and Earth: Eastern Orthodoxy 49

17 Bending the Necks of Victors: Mission to the Barbarians 51

Part 4 The Christian Middle Ages, 590-1517

18 God's Consul: Gregory the Great 57

19 The Search for Unity: Charlemagne and Christendom 59

Digging Deeper: The Song of Roland 62

20 Lifted in a Mystic Manner: The Papacy and the Crusader 63

21 The Nectar of Learning: Scholasticism 65

22 A Song to Lady Poverty: Francis and the Apostolic Lifestyle 67

23 Chaos and the Law of Necessity: Decline of the Papacy 70

24 Judgment in the Process of Time: Wyclif and Hus 72

Part 5 The Age of the Reformation, 1517-1648

25 A Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther and Protestantism 79

Digging Deeper: Augsburg Confession 81

26 Radical Discipleship: The Anabaptists 83

27 Thrust into the Game: John Calvin and Reformed Rule 85

28 The Curse upon the Crown: The Church of England 87

29 "Another Man" at Manresa: The Catholic Reformation 89

30 Opening the Rock: Uttermost America and Asia 92

31 The Rule of the Saints: Puritanism 94

Digging Deeper: Westminster Confession of Faith 96

32 Unwilling to Die for an Old Idea: Denominations 98

Digging Deeper: "A Model of Christian Charity" 100

Part 6 The Age of Reason and Revival, 1648-1789

33 Aiming at the Foundations: The Cult of Reason 107

34 The Heart and Its Reasons: Pascal and the Pietists 110

Digging Deeper: Pensées 112

35 A Brand from the Burning: Wesley and Methodism 114

36 A New Order of the Ages: The Great Awakening 117

Digging Deeper: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 119

Part 7 The Age of Progress, 1789-1914

37 Restoring the Fortresses: Catholicism in the Age of Progress 125

38 A New Social Frontier: Nineteenth-Century England 127

39 To Earth's Remotest People: Protestant Missions 129

40 The Destiny of a Nation: A Christian America? 131

41 A Bridge for Intelligent Moderns: Protestant Liberalism 133

42 Nothing to Lose but Chains: Slums and the Social Gospel 136

Part 8 The Age of Ideologies, 1914-1989

43 Graffiti on a Wall of Shame: Twentieth-Century Ideologies 141

44 Rootless Immigrants in a Sick Society: American Evangelicals 144

45 New Creeds for Breakfast: The Ecumenical Movement 147

Digging Deeper: Lausanne Covenant 149

46 The Medicine of Mercy: Roman Catholicism and Vatican II 150

Part 9 The Age of Technology and the Spirit, 1990-

47 New Technologies, New Contexts: Christian Ministries in the West 157

48 More Peoples, More Tongues: Emergence of the Global South 159

Answer Key 163