Part 1 Incubations and origins: the ancient period 500bce–70ce
Part 1: Incubations and origins: The ancient period 500 bce–70 ce
1. The prehistory of Christian thought
2. Jesus of Nazareth
3. The Apostle Paul: His thought and context
4. The break from Judaism
Part 2 Definition and resistance: The Patristic period 70–500
5. Persecution of Christians
6. Spirituality and asceticism: The desert fathers and mothers
7. The Christian apologists: interacting with Gnosticism and other “heresies”
8. The early church councils: Christological controversy and definition
9. Trinitarian debate
10. Formation of the New Testament canon
11. Augustine: Philosopher, theologian, and church father
Part 3 Establishment and diversification: The medieval period 500–1500
12. Monasticism of the early Middle Ages
13. Early diversification and the East-West Schism
14. Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard
15. Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages
16. Women and theology in the Middle Ages
17. Thomas Aquinas
18. Preparation for reform
Part 4 Protest and revolution: The Reformation period 1500–1700
19. Martin Luther
20. The reformed tradition
21. Protesting against the Protestants: Anabaptism and the radical reformation
22. Reformation continues: The English and the Catholics
Part 5 Enlightenment and evolution: The modern period 1700–2000 and beyond
23. The challenge of modernism
24. Pietism and revivalism
25. Romanticism's response to Enlightenment theology
26. Neo-Orthodoxy: Karl Barth and others
27. Liberal Protestantism
28. Major theological traditions and developments in the twentieth century
29. Recent and emerging themes
Biography
Chad Meister is Affiliate Scholar of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He has written and edited over 30 books, including The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought.
J.B. Stump is Vice President of BioLogos, now working primarily at the intersection of Christianity and science. His latest book is The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith.
