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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." (from the preface)

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)

Year of Publication: 1893Genres: Christianity - Other

Running Time: 26 hours 30 minutes 34 seconds

#	Chapter Name
	Preface TriciaG	4:41
	1.1 The Church and Its History TriciaG	7:43
	1.2 The Scene of the Labors of the Apostles TriciaG	8:07
	1.3 The Greek and Roman Conditions TriciaG	12:22
	1.4 The Attitude of Judaism towards Christianity TriciaG	7:51
	1.5 The Period of Universal Persecution TriciaG	7:47
	1.6 Christian Worship TriciaG	4:23
	1.7 The Life of Christians TriciaG	4:26
	1.8 Ecclesiastical Organization TriciaG	4:02
	1.9 Ebionism and Gnosticism TriciaG	11:13
	1.10 The Pagan Literary Attack TriciaG	7:35
	1.11 The Christian Defenders TriciaG	8:04
	1.12 The Christian Schools TriciaG	6:16
	1.13 Liberation under Constantine TriciaG	6:47
	1.14 Reaction under Julian TriciaG	7:37
	1.15 The Montanistic Reform TriciaG	5:58
	1.16 Controversies on Christ TriciaG	6:52
	1.17 The Later Controversies TriciaG	14:07
	1.18 Ecclesiastical Schisms TriciaG	6:53
	1.19 The Scriptures and Tradition TriciaG	9:07
	1.20 Apocryphal Writings TriciaG	5:57
	1.21 Theology During the Early Period TriciaG	17:12
	1.22 Ecclesiastical Government and the Roman Primacy TriciaG	14:44
	1.23 Sacred Seasons and Public Worship TriciaG	8:41
	1.24 Ecclesiastical Discipline TriciaG	5:53
	1.25 Christian Life and Usages TriciaG	11:56
	1.26 The Church in the Catacombs TriciaG	15:41
	1.27 Monasticism TriciaG	6:20
	1.28 The Age of Gregory the Great TriciaG	4:14
	1.29 The Expansion of Christianity TriciaG	13:12
	1.30 The Close of the Early Period TriciaG	7:05
	2.1 The Medieval Transition TriciaG	5:48
	2.2 The Reign of Charlemagne TriciaG	8:29
	2.3 Church and State under the Later Carolingian Rulers TriciaG	5:47
	2.4 The Fictitious Isidore TriciaG	9:12
	2.5 Mohammedanism TriciaG	7:37
	2.6 The Schools of Charlemagne TriciaG	7:29
	2.7 Theological Movements TriciaG	7:32
	2.8 The Rule of the Popes TriciaG	10:16
	2.9 The Gregorian Reform TriciaG	7:19
	2.10 Moral Life and Ecclesiastical Usages TriciaG	6:14
	2.11 The Public Services TriciaG	7:45
	2.12 The Writers of the Times TriciaG	4:58
	2.13 New Missions TriciaG	12:38
	2.14 Schism between the East and the West TriciaG	6:52
	2.15 The Anglo-Saxon Church TriciaG	6:48
	2.16 Arnold of Brescia TriciaG	8:12
	2.17 The Waldenses and the Albigenses TriciaG	5:53
	2.18 Thomas Becket TriciaG	7:30
	2.19 The Monastic Orders TriciaG	9:33
	2.20 Monasteries as Centres of Intellectual Life TriciaG	2:44
	2.21 Christian Art TriciaG	6:19
	2.22 Christian Worship TriciaG	5:10
	2.23 The Crusades: A.D. 1096-1270 TriciaG	9:02
	2.24 Arabic Philosophy TriciaG	3:47
	2.25 The Hohenstaufens in Italy TriciaG	5:50
	2.26 The Jewish Philosophy TriciaG	4:30
	2.27 The Scholastic Philosophy TriciaG	11:09
	2.28 Abelard and his Fortunes TriciaG	8:13
	2.29 General Literature TriciaG	4:02
	2.30 The Great Schools TriciaG	2:51
	2.31 The Divided Papacy TriciaG	7:20
	2.32 Retrospect TriciaG	3:57
	3.1 The Heralds of Protestantism TriciaG	33:33
	3.2 The Humanism of Italy TriciaG	11:40
	3.3 The Reformatory Councils TriciaG	7:37
	3.4 The German Reformation: Martin Luther TriciaG	18:39
	3.5 Luther: Further Labors and Personal Character TriciaG	16:25
	3.6 Melanchthon and other German Reformers TriciaG	12:24
	3.7 The Reformation in German Switzerland TriciaG	10:39
	3.8 The Reformation in French Switzerland TriciaG	18:49
	3.9 The English Reformation: First Period TriciaG	17:24
	3.10 The English Reformation: Second Period TriciaG	8:43
	3.11 The Scotch Reformation TriciaG	6:51
	3.12 The Reformation in the Netherlands TriciaG	9:45
	3.13 The Reformation in France TriciaG	11:00
	3.14 The Reformation in Italy TriciaG	13:08
	3.15 The Reformation in Spain and Portugal TriciaG	6:50
	3.16 The Reformation in Scandinavia TriciaG	3:20
	3.17 The Reformation in the Slavic Lands TriciaG	6:48
	3.18 Survey of Results TriciaG	6:57
	3.19 The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Luther's Birth TriciaG	5:39
	4.1 Recuperative Measures of Romanism TriciaG	6:17
	4.2 The Order of Jesuits TriciaG	9:46
	4.3 The English Church under James I and Charles I TriciaG	8:03
	4.4 The English Puritans TriciaG	5:40
	4.5 The Quakers TriciaG	4:44
	4.6 Cromwell and the Commonwealth TriciaG	8:05
	4.7 The Church During the Restoration TriciaG	6:52
	4.8 English Deism TriciaG	7:52
	4.9 The Protestant Church in Germany TriciaG	4:44
	4.10 Mysticism in Germany TriciaG	5:42
	4.11 The Thirty Years' War TriciaG	7:37
	4.12 The Protestant Emigration to America TriciaG	2:49
	4.13 Arminius and the Synod of Dort TriciaG	5:17
	4.14 The Salzburg Persecution TriciaG	3:39
	4.15 Spener and Pietism TriciaG	10:18
	4.16 The Moravians TriciaG	5:32
	4.17 Swedenborg and the New Church TriciaG	4:53
	4.18 Rationalism in Germany TriciaG	6:25
	4.19 The Evangelical Reaction TriciaG	5:50
	4.20 French Mysticism and Flemish Jansenism TriciaG	6:07
	4.21 French Infidelity TriciaG	5:21
	4.22 French Protestantism TriciaG	6:25
	4.23 The Russo-Greek Church TriciaG	9:07
	4.24 Wesley and Methodism TriciaG	9:08
	4.25 The Tractarian Movement TriciaG	6:53
	4.26 The Schools in the Church of England TriciaG	13:36
	4.27 The English Universities TriciaG	5:19
	4.28 Scholars and Divines of the English Church TriciaG	16:23
	4.29 Puritan and Presbyterian Scholars and Divines TriciaG	15:00
	4.30 Critical Periods in the History of the Scottish Church TriciaG	10:50
	4.31 The Ekskine Schism and the Haldane Revival TriciaG	7:44
	4.32 The Great Disruption TriciaG	8:30
	4.33 Learning and Literary Culture in the Roman Catholic Church TriciaG	7:26
	4.34 The Growth of Mary-Worship TriciaG	6:10
	4.35 The End of the Temporal Power of the Papacy TriciaG	6:00
	4.36 The Contest with Germany TriciaG	4:27
	4.37 The Survival of Superstition TriciaG	3:38
	4.38 Roman Catholicism in England TriciaG	7:44
	4.39 The Vatican Council TriciaG	5:36
	4.40 The Old Catholics TriciaG	6:40
	4.41 The Evangelical Alliance TriciaG	4:11
	4.42 The Sunday-School TriciaG	3:52
	4.43 The Revision of the Bible TriciaG	4:34
	4.44 The Protestant Mission Field TriciaG	16:21
	4.45 The Temperance Reform TriciaG	4:08
	4.46 Philanthropy in England and Germany TriciaG	7:26
	4.47 English Preachers TriciaG	5:20
	4.48 Literature and Religion in England TriciaG	5:42
	4.49 The Salvation Army TriciaG	5:06
	4.50 Survey of Religious Life on the Continent TriciaG	6:19
	5.1.1 The New Christendom TriciaG	4:34
	5.1.2 The Spanish Colonization TriciaG	10:04
	5.1.3 The French Colonization TriciaG	9:33
	5.1.4 The English Colonization: Virginia and Massachusetts TriciaG	14:53
	5.1.5 Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other English Colonies TriciaG	9:13
	5.1.6 Continental Colonies: Dutch, Swedes, Huguenots, and other Protestants TriciaG	7:55
	5.1.7 The Providential Planting TriciaG	5:46
	5.1.8 Political Framework of the Colonies TriciaG	6:49
	5.1.9 Church Government in the Colonies TriciaG	7:48
	5.1.10 Education TriciaG	9:59
	5.1.11 Intolerance in the Colonies TriciaG	13:30
	5.1.12 Religious Life of the Colonies TriciaG	6:22
	5.1.13 Colonial Worship and Usages TriciaG	6:04
	5.1.14 Missions to the Indians TriciaG	10:07
	5.1.15 Theological Movements TriciaG	10:32
	5.1.16 Religious Literature TriciaG	9:48
	5.1.17 Early Leaders TriciaG	12:15
	5.1.18 The Influence of the Puritans TriciaG	4:15
	5.1.19 The Episcopal Defection in Connecticut TriciaG	3:56
	5.2.1 The Church at the Founding of the Republic TriciaG	7:10
	5.2.2 The Separation of Church and State TriciaG	8:15
	5.2.3 The French Infidelity TriciaG	7:29
	5.2.4 Revival at the Beginning of the Century TriciaG	5:57
	5.2.5 Expansion in the South and West TriciaG	6:38
	5.2.6 The Protestant Episcopal Church TriciaG	5:09
	5.2.7 The Congregational Church TriciaG	5:14
	5.2.8 The Reformed Churches TriciaG	6:08
	5.2.9 The Baptist Church TriciaG	11:47
	5.2.10 The Presbyterian Church TriciaG	12:54
	5.2.11 The Lutheran Church TriciaG	10:45
	5.2.12 American Methodism TriciaG	19:50
	5.2.13 The Roman Catholic Church TriciaG	14:54
	5.2.14 The Unitarian Church TriciaG	13:16
	5.2.15 The Universalist Church TriciaG	9:11
	5.2.16 The Moravian Church TriciaG	8:35
	5.2.17 Alexander Campbell and the Disciples of Christ TriciaG	9:11
	5.2.18 The Quakers TriciaG	9:34
	5.2.19 Other Denominations TriciaG	26:05
	5.2.20 The Transcendentalists TriciaG	10:24
	5.2.21 Communistic Churches TriciaG	12:09
	5.2.22 The Mormons TriciaG	14:27
	5.2.23 The Antislavery Reform TriciaG	16:10
	5.2.24 The Temperance Reform TriciaG	17:11
	5.2.25 Philanthropy and Christian Union TriciaG	15:39
	5.2.26 Missions TriciaG	16:46
	5.2.27 The Sunday-School TriciaG	7:33
	5.2.28 Christian Literature TriciaG	13:07
	5.2.29 The American Pulpit TriciaG	12:56
	5.2.30 Theology of the American Church TriciaG	12:52
	5.2.31 Theological Scholarship TriciaG	19:04