Index

Abelard, Peter

Abraham

academic theology

Acts of the Apostles

Adam

creation of
and Eve

Adams, John

adoption, image of

adultery

Advent

Africa

Age of Reason

Aidan

Alaric

Albert, Prince

Alexander, Mrs. Cecil F.

Alexander VI, Pope

Alexius I, Emperor

altars, focus on

Ambrose of Milan

America

Catholicism in
church and state in
Civil Rights Movement in
fundamentalism controversy in
origins of Pentecostalism in
Protestantism in
Puritanism in

American Civil Liberties Union

Amish community

amma

Anabaptism

Andrew

Andronicus

Anglicanism

Annunciation

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Laôn

Anthony of Egypt

Antioch

Apocalypse

Apocrypha

Apostles’ Creed

apostles (“the twelve”)

apostolic age

Appenzeller, Henry

Aquila

Aquinas, Thomas

Aratus

architecture

Arian controversy

Aristotle

Arius of Alexandria

Arles, Synod of

Armenian genocide

art and artistic expression

Aryan clause

Ascension

Ash Wednesday

Assyrians

Athanasius of Alexandria

atheism

atonement

Augsburg, Peace of

Augsburg Confession

Augustine of Canterbury

Augustine of Hippo

on baptism
definition of sacraments by
and literature
and Pelagian controversy

Augustus, Emperor

Aurelian, Emperor

Australasia, missionary work in

Authorized Version see King James Bible

Baal

Babylon

Babylonians

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Bainton, Roland H.

baptism

adult (believer)
by total immersion
infant
sacraments of

Baptist Missionary Society (BMS)

Baptists

Barmen Declaration

Barth, Karl

Basil of Caesarea

Basil the Great

Baxter, Richard

Becket, Thomas à

Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church)

Belgic Confession

beliefs

Benedict of Nursia

Benedict XV, Pope

Benedictines

Benson, Bishop Edward White

Berger, Peter

Bergoglio, Jorge Mario

Bethlehem

Bez, Theodore

Beza, Theodore

Bible see Christian Bible

Bible Christian Church

bishops

Bismark, Otto von

Bolsheviks

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Bonaventure, St

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Book of Common Prayer

Bora, Kati von

born again Christians

Botticelli, Sandro

Brendan, St

Browne, Robert

Brownists

Brueggeman, Walter

Bryan, William Jennings

Buber, Martin

Bucer, Martin

Bulgakov, Sergei

Bullinger, Heinrich

burial

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Cabral, Pedro Álvares

Caecilian, Bishop

Caesarea

Calvinists

Calvary

Calvin, John

on baptism
definition of sacraments
on the Eucharist
Reformation of

Calvinism

Canaan

Canaanite religion

Candida Casa (Whithorn)

cannibalism

Cantabrians, revolt of

Canterbury

canticles

Capernaum

Carchemish

cardinals

Carey, William

carols

Carroll, Archbishop John

Carthage

Cassian

Castro, Fidel

cathedrals

Catherine of Aragon

catholic, definitions of

Catholic Reformation

Catholic teaching, clarification of

Catholicism

and the Apocrypha
expansion of
Quebec Act
shifting fortunes of
and women
see also Roman Catholicism

CELAM II (Medellín conference)

Celestine I, Pope

Celtic regions

Cerularius, Patriarch Michael

cessationism

Chalcedon, Council of

charismatic renewal

Charles I, King

Charles II, King

Charles V, Emperor

Chateaubriand, François René

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chesterton, G. K.

China

chrismation

Christ see Jesus of Nazareth

Christ, Carol

Christendom, end of

Christian Bible

Calvinistic guide to
criticism of
languages of
public readings of
referring to passages in
selection of contents
and tradition
translation of
ultimate authority of

Christian communities

Christian expansion

Christian history

Christian hope

Christian life

Christian Science

Christian symbolism

Christian worship

Christian year

Christianity

American
and atheism
beyond the West
Celtic
and Civil Rights Movement
contemporary forms of
creeds and beliefs of
criticism of
early worship and organization
east–west schism in
establishment of
expansion of
history of
impact of Great War on
and Israel
Jesus and origins of
and Judaism
and literature
as a living reality
in the modern period
and the natural sciences
rhythms and seasons of
and the Roman Empire
and the shaping of culture
in the twentieth century

Christmas

Christological titles

Christology

Christus (also Chrestus/Christos)

Chrysostom

church

apostolicity of
architecture
catholicity of
challenging establishment of
elimination of abuses within
empirical and ideal
holiness of
the life of
unity of
visible and invisible

Church of England, in America

Church Missionary Society (CMS)

churches

African initiated (AICs)
art in
cross shape of

Churchmen’s Union

circumcision

Civil Rights Movement

Claudius, Emperor

Clement of Alexandria

Clement, Bishop of Rome

Clement XIV, Pope

clergy

Colenso, Bishop John William

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Colossians, letter to

Columba, St

Columbus, Christopher

commemoration, of saints

Commonwealth, Puritan

communication, by spoken word

communism

Compline

confirmation

consensus fidelium

Constantine, Emperor

conversion of

Constantinople

Council meeting
fall of

consubstantiation

conversion

cosmological argument

Counter Reformation

Covenants

Coverdale Bible

Cranmer, Thomas

creation

creationism

creeds

reciting of

cremation

cross, symbolism of the

crucifix, importance of

crucifixion

crusades

cultic laws, of Judaism

culture, shaped by Christianity

Cyprian of Carthage

Cyril of Jerusalem

Cyrus, King

Daly, Mary

Damascus, conversion on road to

Darrow, Clarence

Darwinism

David, King

Dawkins, Richard

deacons and deaconesses

Dead Sea Scrolls

death

dechristianization

Demetrias

Dennett, Daniel

denominations

Deuterocanonical works

diakonos

Didache

Diderot, Denis

Diet of Worms

dietary laws

Diocletian, Emperor

Dionysius the Areopagite

disciples

Docetism (docetic heresy)

doctrines see beliefs

Dominicans

Domitian, Emperor

Donatist controversy

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Draper, John William

Dutch War of Independence

Eagleton, Terry

Early Church

Easter

ebionitism

economy of salvation

ecumenical movement

Eddy, Mary Baker

Edessa

Edward VI, King

Edwards, Jonathan

Egypt

elders

Elijah

Eliot, George

Eliot, John

Elisha

Elizabeth I, Queen

Elizabethan Settlement

emanation

empty tomb, tradition of

England

cathedral schools in
national church of
Puritanism in
Reformation in

English Civil War

Enlightenment

Ephesians, letter to

Ephesus

Epiphany

episcopos

epistles see letters

Erasmus of Rotterdam

eschatology

Ethiopian churches

Eucharist

debates about
leavened/unleavened bread at
sacraments of

Europe, post-Christian

Eusebius of Caesarea

Evangelicalism

evangelism, new age of

Evangelists

events, and meanings

evil, inherent

exile

exodus

route of

faith

and belief
globalization of
justification by
the life of
and reason
renewal of
statements of
Tertullian’s rule of
two senses of
understanding of
Victorian crisis of

fall, the

fasting

fathers of the church

feasts, fixed and movable

Felicitas

Felix of Aptunga

feminism

Ferdinand II, King

fertility cults

Fidanza, Giovanni di

First Testament

fish, as Christian symbol

folk (popular) religion

font

food, cleanliness of

Formula of Concord

Fosdick, Henry Emerson

Fourth Gospel see John, gospel of

France

Francis, Pope

Franciscans

frankincense

Franklin, Benjamin

free will

French Revolution

and dechristianization

fruit, of tree of knowledge

Fulbert of Chartres

fundamentalism, in America

funerals

Gabriel, angel

Galerius, Emperor

Galilee

Gama, Vasco da

Garden of Eden, heaven as restoration of

Gaul

Genesis

Geneva

genocide

in Armenia
in Germany

Gentiles

Germany, church crisis of 1930s

Ghirlandaio, Domenico

Gideon

Gilson, Etienne

Gnosticism

God

as almighty
an impersonal
analogies for
armor of
authority of
belief in
calling of Abraham by
Christian understanding of
as the creator
faithfulness of
as father
gender of
hostility to sin by
image of
immensity of
made known by Jesus
male role models for
a personal
proofs for existence of
proper name for
self-revelation of
sexuality of
as shepherd
as spirit
transcendence of
and understanding of the Testaments
unity of
visualization of

gold

Goldenberg, Naomi Ruth

Golgotha

Good Friday

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

gospels

“according to”
John see John, gospel of
Luke see Luke, gospel of
Mark see Mark, gospel of
Matthew see Matthew, gospel of
as source of information on Jesus
Synoptic

gothic architecture

grace

Graham, Billy

Great Awakening

Great Bible

Great Schism

Great War (World War I)

Grebel, Conrad

Greek Orthodoxy, sacraments of

Greek War of Independence

Gregory the Great, Pope

Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory I, Pope

Gregory VII, Pope

Gregory X, Pope

Haggai

Hampson, Daphne

Hardy, Thomas

Harnack, Adolf von

harrowing of hell

healing

heaven

association with worship

Heber, Bishop Reginald

Hebrew Bible

Hebrews, letter to

Heidelberg Catechism

hell, harrowing of

Henry, Patrick

Henry VIII, King

Herbert, George

Herod Antipas

Herrnhuter

Hippolytus of Rome

historians, Roman

Hitler, Adolf

Hodge, Charles

Holocaust

Holy Communion

Holy Saturday

Holy Scripture see Christian Bible

Holy Spirit

Holy Week

homily

homoousios

Hosea

Howell, R. B. C.

Hudson Taylor, James

Huguenots

humanism

humanity

Christian understanding of
Jesus as mediator with God

humility

Huntingdon, Selina Countess of

hymns

iconostasis, focus on

icons

Ignatius of Antioch

images

inauguration

incarnation

the Chalcedonian definition of
doctrine of
Islamic view on

India

indulgences, sale of

infants, baptism of

Innocent III, Pope

Iona

Ireland

Irenaeus of Lyons

Isaac

Isaiah

Islam

and Armenian genocide
criticisms of the understanding of Jesus
expansion of
Sunni

Israel

figures of faith of
hopes and expectations of
relationship with Christianity
state of

Israelite Patriarchs

Italy

Jacob

James

James, St

James I, King

Jefferson, Thomas

Jehoiakim, rebellion of

Jehova

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jenson, Robert

Jeremiah

Jerome

Jerusalem

Jesuits

Jesus Christ, meaning of name

Jesus of Nazareth

achievements of
at wedding at Cana
baptism of
betrayal of
birth of
conception of
continuity with Moses
crucifixion of
death of
disciples of
doings of
and early church
flogging of
Galilean ministry of
as God incarnate
and the gospels
harrowing of hell by
healing by
humiliation of
identity of
image of
interpretation of history of
Islamic criticisms of the understanding of
Jewish context of
as king
lack of divinity of
as lamb of God
as Lord
as lover
maleness of
as mediator between God and humanity
as Messiah
ministry of
as model of life with God
New Testament understandings of significance of
and origins of Christianity
passion of
possibility of salvation through
presence at Lord’s Supper
as priest
reception outside Judaism
the redeemer
rejection of
representing invisible God
resurrection of
risen
on Roman taxes
as Savior
sayings about
significance for Christianity
as Son of God
as Son of man
as son of Mary
sources of knowledge about
teaching of
temptation of
“threefold office of”
and understanding of God
the victor
and women
worship of

Jews

Joanna, wife of Cuza

Joel

John

gospel of

John the Baptist

John XXII, Pope

John XXIII, Pope

John Paul I, Pope

John Paul II, Pope

Jordan River

Joseph

Josephus

Jovian

Jowett, Benjamin

Juana de la Cruz

Judaea

Judah

Judaism

Chrestus group within
and Christianity
cultic laws of
marking male infants in
and Old Testament
and women

Judas, gospel of

judges

Julian the Apostate

Julian of Norwich

Julius Caesar

Junia

justification

Justin Martyr

Karlstadt, Andreas Bodenstein von

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Khomyakov, Aleksei

King James Bible

King, Martin Luther

kingdom of God

Knights of St John

Korea, Christianization of

kurios

Lake Galilee

Lake, Kirsopp

Lamb of God

Lambeth Conference

Langland, William

Last Supper

last things

Lateran Council, Fourth

Lateran Treaty

Latin, use in liturgy

Laud, Archbishop William

Law

League of Militant Atheists

lectionary

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Lent

Leo IX, Pope

Leo X, Pope

Leo XIII, Pope

Leopold I, Emperor

Lepanto, battle of

letters

of New testament
Pastoral
as source of information on Jesus
to Hebrews
to Romans
see also New Testament, letters of; Paul, letters of; Peter, letters of

Lewis, C. S.

liberation theology

liberationist movement

Licinus, Emperor

liminality

Lindisfarne

literature, and Christianity

liturgy

Anglican
and Baptists
Catholic
and Lutheranism
Orthodox
renewal of
rituality of
use of writings in

Locke, John

logos

Loisy, Alfred

Lombard, Peter

London Missionary Society (LMS)

Lord

Lord’s Prayer

Lord’s Supper

Louis XIV, King

Louis XVI, King

Louis XVIII, King

Lourdes

love

Loyola, Ignatius

Luciani, Albino

Luke

gospel of

Luther, Martin

on baptism
definition of sacraments by
on the Eucharist
Reformation of

Lutheranism

Lydia

Macartney, Clarence Edward

Madison, James

Magellan, Ferdinand

Magi

mainstream Reformation

Malachi

Malta

manger

Manicheans

manuscripts, copying of

Manzikert, battle of

Manzoni, Alessandro

Marcion of Sinope

Marienthron

Mark

gospel of

Mark, St

marriage

martyrdom, of women

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Mary Magdalene

Mary, mother of James

Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary Tudor, Queen

mass

Massachusetts Bay

Matthew, gospel of

Matthews Bible

Matins

Maundy Thursday

Maximilla

Maximus the Confessor

meanings, and events

Mehmed II, Sultan

Melanchthon, Philip

memorialism

Mencken, H. L.

Mennonite community

Messiah

Methodism

Methodius of Olympus

Micah

Middle Ages

Middle East

Milan

Council of
Edict of

Milner-White, Eric

Milvian Bridge

ministers

miracles, healing

missionary activity

Mithras, cult of

Mizpah

modernism, the challenge of

Moltmann, Jürgen

monarchy, establishment of

monasticism

and education
in Ireland
in Orthodoxy
rise of
structuring of time in

Monica

monophysitism

Montanist movement

Monte Cassino (Montecassino)

Mormonism

Morocco

Moses

Muhammad

music

Muslims

Mustard Seed, Parable of the

myrrh

nabi

Nantes, Edict of

Narnia, as allegory of harrowing of hell

National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis)

nativity

Nazareth

Nebuchadnezzar, Emperor

Neill, Stephen Charles

Neoplatonism

Nero, Emperor

Nestorianism

New Covenant, continuity from Old

New Jerusalem

New Testament

27 books of
and Christian hope
on the crucifixion
fixing of the canon of
gospels of
hope of a Messiah in
idea of holiness in
images of salvation
letters of
relation with Old Testament
and significance of Jesus
as source of information on Jesus
and style of worship
writers

Newman, John Henry

Newton, John

Nicaea, Councils of

Nicene Creed

Nicephorus of Constantinople

Nicolas, St

Nine Lessons and Carols, Service of

Ninian, Bishop

Noah’s flood

nominalism

None

Oberammergau Passion Play

Odoacer

offices

Old Covenant, continuity with New

Old Testament

39 books of
Five Books of the Law (Moses)
historical books
idea of holiness in
and Judaism
major themes of
prophecies
the Prophets
relation with New Testament
typological reading of
wisdom writings

Oppositionalism

oral tradition, period of

ordinance

ordination, of women

Origen

Orthodox Christians

Orthodox Church

icons in
liturgical year of
resurgence of

Orthodoxy

Ottoman empire

Owen, John

Oxford Movement

Ozman, Agnes

Pachomius

paganism

Palestine

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

pall

Palladius, Bishop

Palm Sunday

papacy, re-emergence of

papal elections

papal infallibility

parables of the Kingdom

Parham, Charles

Parks, Rosa

Pascal, Blaise

Passiontide

Passover

Pastoral Epistles

Patrick, St

patristic period

Paul

on baptism
distinguishing God from creation
on heaven
helped by women
letters of
missionary journeys of
passing on teachings by
on salvation
sermon on Areopagus by
and Thecla
understanding of God by

Paul, St

Paul of Tarsus

Paul III, Pope

Paul VI, Pope

Pelagian controversy

Pelagius

penance, sacrament of

Pentateuch

Pentecost

Pentecostalism

Peregrinatio Egeriae

Pergamon

Perkins, William

Perpetua

persecution

Peter

letters of
sermons of

Peter, St

Pharaoh

Pharisees

Philo of Alexandria

Phoebe

Photian Schism

Phrygia

Pietism

Pilate, Pontius

Pilgrim Fathers

pilgrimages

Pius VII, Pope

Pius IX, Pope

Pius X, Pope

Pius XII, Pope

Plainsong

Platonism

Pliny the Younger

Plotinus

Poland

Pole, Reginald

popular (folk) religion

Portugal, voyages of discovery by

power, secular and religious

Prado, Caio

praise

prayer

preaching

presbuteros

Presbyterianism

Presbyterians

Preveza, battle of

priesthood

Prime

Prisca

Priscilla

Proclus

Prodigal Son, Parable of the

promised land

prophecy

Prophet-healing churches

Prophets

Protestant Reformation

Protestantism

American
erosion of denominationalism in
sacraments of

Protestants

Psalter

pulpit

purgatory

Puritanism, in England and America

Quiet Time

Quintillian, Emperor

Qumran, Jewish community at

Qu’ran

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

racial segregation

Radical Reformation

Rahner, Karl

Ramesses II

Rashdall, Hastings

rationalism

Ravenna

reason, and faith

reconciliation, image of

Red Sea, division of

redeemed life, Jesus’ disclosure of

redemption

reform, competing visions of

Reformation

Calvinist
Catholic
in England
Lutheran
mainstream
Radical
sixteenth century debates of

Reformed churches

regula fidei

relations, two categories of

relics, cult of

religion

indifference to
Marx’s views on
wars of

Remembrance

Renaissance

repentance, corporate

representation

restoration

resurrection

Revelation

of St John

revisionism, theological

revivalism

Ricci, Matteo

rings

Robespierre, Maximilien F. M. I. de

Robinson, John

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

Roman Catholicism

see also Catholicism

Roman Empire

Rome

bishop of
Christianization of
cults in
great fire of
occupation of Palestine by
sacking of
triumphal parades in

Romulus Augustus, Emperor

ruach

Rubicon, crossing of the

Russell, Charles Taze

Russia

Russian Orthodox wedding

Russian Revolution

Sabbath

sacraments

Sacred Scripture see Christian Bible

sacrifice, death of Jesus as

Sacrosanctum concilium

Sadducees, resurrection beliefs of

saints

Salome

salvation

by grace
Christian understanding of

Salvation Army

Samson

Samuel

sanctification

Santa Claus

Santiago de Compostela

Saragossa, Treaty of

satisfaction, atonement as

Saul

Saul, King

Savior

Sayers, Dorothy L.

scholasticism, rise of

Schwartz, Christian Frederick

science

Scopes, John T.

scriptoria

Scripture, inspired

Second Testament

secularization

Seleucus Callinicus, King

Selwyn, Bishop George

Separatism

Sermon on the Mount

sermons

services

Sext

Seymour, William J.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

shepherds

Shiloh

Shrove (Pancake) Tuesday (Mardi Gras)

signs

Simmons, Menno

Simon of Cyrene

sin

Siri, Cardinal Giuseppe

Sixtus IV, Pope

Smith, Joseph

Smyth, Newman

sobornost

socialism, and atheism

Society of Jesus

Socrates

sola Scriptura

Solomon, King

Southern Baptist Convention

Soviet Union

space, structuring of

Spain

speaking in tongues

Spener, Philip Jakob

spirit

spiritual churches

Spurgeon, C. H.

stained glass

Stalin, Josef

Stations of the Cross

Stolberg, Friedrich von

substitution

Suetonius

suffering, acceptance of

Suger, Abbot

Sunday gatherings

Susanna

Swinburne, Richard

symbolum apostolorum/apostolicum see Apostles’ Creed

Syncletica of Alexandria

Synoptic Gospels see gospels, Synoptic

Syria

Tacitus

Talmud

Tanakh

Tarsus, Cilicia

tawhid

Taylor, Charles

teleological argument

temple

Temple, Archbishop William

temptation of Christ

Ten Commandments

terce

Tertullian

Tetragrammaton

texts

Thecla of Iconium

Theodore of Amasea

Theodosius the Great, Emperor

Theophilus

Thirty Years War

Thirty-Nine Articles

Thomas, gospel of

Three Self Patriotic Movement

Tiberius, Emperor

time, structuring of

Timothy

Tindal, Matthew

Toland, John

toleration

Torah see Law

Tordesillas, Treaty of

Tower of Babel

tradition, and the Bible

traditores

Trajan, Emperor

transubstantiation

tree of knowledge, eating fruit of

Trent, Council of

Trinity

Trinity Sunday

Tripoli

Turkey

Tyndale, William

Tyrrell, George

ultramontanism

Underwood, Horace

United Methodist Church

Urban III, Pope

Valentine, St

Vasari, Giorgio

Vatican

First Council
Second Council ,

Vermigli, Peter Martyr

Vespers

Victor Emmanuel, King

Victoria, Queen

Vienna

Vineyard, Parable of the

Virgin Mary see Mary, mother of Jesus

von Rad, Gerhard

von Zinzendorf, Nicolas

Vulgate

wailing wall

wall of separation

wars of religion

Washing of the feet

Washington, George

Watts, Isaac

Weber, Max

weddings

Weimar Republic

Wesley, Charles

Wesley, John

Wesley, Susanna

Westminster Confession

Westphalia, Peace of

wheat and weeds (tares), parable of

White, Andrew Dickson

Whitefield, George

Whitsun

Wilberforce, William

Williams, George Hunston

Williams, Roger

wise men

Wittenberg

Wojtyła, Karol Józef

women

word

Wordsworth, William

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

World Christian Fundamentals Association

World Council of Churches

World War II

worship see Christian worship

writings

Wu, Y. T.

Wycliffe, John

Xavier, Francis

Yahweh

Yeshua

Ziegenbalg, Bartholomäus

Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von

Zion

Zurich

Anabaptism in
Reformation

Zwingli, Huldrych

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