Church History 2-Volume & Video Lecture Set

Respected textbooks for teaching church history. Exploring the church's development, these illustrated studies offer overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish cultures; insights into faith in the Roman empire; observations on art, architecture, literature, and philosophy; the Renaissance; Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation; the Enlightenment; Puritanism; the current worldwide ecumenical environment; and more. 1408 pages total, two hardcovers from Zondervan.

The Church History, Volume Two Pack offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the just prior to the Reformation through the next 500 years into the present day. It did so, not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by the church. This resource looks closely at the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church.

The Church History, Volume Two Pack includes:

• Church History, Volume Two. This bestselling textbook explores the development of the church from the Reformation to today. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it gives primary attention to the history of Christianity in the West (western Europe and North America), but given the global and ecumenical environment of the twenty-first century, it also covers Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
• Church History Volume Two Video Lectures. This DVD features a video lecture for each of the 22 chapters in the textbook, which amounts to almost 8 hours of video.

The Church History Volume Two Pack provides a complete introduction to the last 500 years of church history for students, independent learners, or anyone interested in learning about the history of the Christian church.

Church History, Volume One Video Lectures features 24 lessons (on 3 DVDs) and offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed from the days of Jesus to the years prior to the Reformation. The church did so not in a vacuum, but in a setting of times, cultures, and events that both influenced and were influenced by it. These lectures help explore the integral link between the history of the world and that of the church.

A companion to the widely used textbook Church History, Volume One by Everett Ferguson, the lectures feature the author teaching through each chapter in the book. Designed with the student in mind, each lecture is approximately 20 minutes in length. Useful for traditional students, students in distance and online courses, and independent learners alike, these lectures provide a full introduction to church history from the time of Christ to the pre-Reformation.

Session Titles and Runtimes:

1 - The Setting for the Story's Beginning (19 min)

2 - Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church (18 min)

3 - The Subapostolic Age (17 min)

4 - The Church and the Empire (22 min)

5 - Heresies and Schisms in the Second Century (15 min)

6 - The Defense against Rival Interpretations (20 min)

7 - The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems (25 min)

8 - Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries (15 min)

9 - Development of the Church during the Third Century (19 min)

10 - Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century (19 min)

11 - The Church in the Fourth Century: Doctrine, Organization, and Literature (21 min)

12 - Monasticism, Expansion, Life, and Worship: The Church in the Fourth Century (19 min)

13 - Christological Controversies to Chalcedon (17 min)

14 - Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism (20 min)

15 - Transitions to the Middle Ages: Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy (19 min)

16 - Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (17 min)

17 - The Eastern Church from the Seventh to the Eleventh Centuries (18 min)

18 - The Western Church from the Seventh to the Ninth Centuries (18 min)

19 - Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West: The Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries (15 min)

20 - The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade (17 min)

21 - Intellectual Revival: The Rise of Scholasticism (20 min)

22 - Monastic, Literary, Cultural, and Political Activities in the Twelfth Century (17 min)

23 - The Glory of the Western Medieval Church: The Thirteenth Century (18 min)

24 - Portents of Decline (18 min)

A comprehensive survey of the church's first 1500 years of social and intellectual history, from Christ to the Reformation, by distinguished scholar Everett Ferguson.

Church History, Volume 1: From Christ to Pre-Reformation offers a unique socially contextualized view of how the Christian church spread and developed from Jerusalem and into Asia and Europe.

Ferguson rightly stresses that the church did not spread in a vacuum, but in specific places, mileus, and cultures, all of which were both influenced and were influenced by the church. Ferguson also examines how the events directly related to the church also impacted and were impacted by larger world events.

Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, Church History offers overviews of the Roman, Greek, and Jewish worlds; insights into the church's relationship to the Roman Empire, with glimpses into pagan attitudes toward Christians; the place of art and architecture, literature and philosophy, both sacred and secular; and much more, spanning the time from the first through the thirteenth centuries.

Church History, Volume 2: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day examines the rise and growth of the church in its cultural, intellectual and political context.

Offering a rich contextual view of how the Christian church spread and developed, Church History authors Frank James and John Woodbridge also emphasize that the church's life did not occur in a vacuum, but at specific times in certain places, within cultures that were both influenced by and influenced the church.

This second volume displays the growth of the church from just prior to the Reformation through the next five hundred plus years into the present. Filled with maps, charts, and illustrations, it is an account of the ups and downs, the triumphs and struggles, of the Christian movement and offers previously unavailable perspective and approach to church history that understands history as a big picture full of life and events.

Designed to fully integrate all of the senses in learning, this book makes an excellent text for students to not only retrieve information from, but to experience history.