
The Essential Writings of Philip Schaff
The Essential Writings of Philip SchaffBy Philip SchaffLength459h 25m
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"History of the Christian Church" is an eight volume account of Christian history written by Philip Schaff. In this great work Schaff covers the history of Christianity from the time of the apostles to the Reformation period.
"The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes" is a three volume set in which Schaff is classifying and explaining many different statements of belief and articles of faith throughout the Christian history. He deals with the history of the creeds, starting with the Ecumenical creeds, and moving to Greek and Roman creeds, then Old Catholic Union creeds, and finally to the Evangelical creeds and Modern Protestant creeds.
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Table of contents
1The Essential Writings of Philip Schaff
2PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
3FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
4PREFACE TO THIRD REVISION
5Literature
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6§ 1. Nature of Church History.
7§ 2. Branches of Church History.
8§ 3. Sources of Church History.
9§ 4. Periods of Church History.
10§ 5. Uses of Church History.
11§ 6. Duty of the Historian.
12§ 7. Literature of Church History.
13ADDENDA
14FIRST PERIOD THE CHURCH UNDER THE APOSTLES FROM THE BIRTH OF CHRIST TO THE DEATH OF ST. JOHN, A.D. 1–100
15Literature.
16§ 8. Central Position of Christ in the History of the World.
17§ 9. Judaism.
18§ 10. The Law, and the Prophecy.
19§ 11. Heathenism.
20§ 12. Grecian Literature, and the Roman Empire.
21§ 13. Judaism and Heathenism in Contact.
22CHAPTER II. JESUS CHRIST.
23§ 14. Sources and Literature.
24§ 15. The Founder of Christianity.
25§ 16. Chronology of the Life of Christ.
26§ 17. The Land and the People.
27§ 18. Apocryphal Traditions.
28§ 19. The Resurrection of Christ.
29CHAPTER III. THE APOSTOLIC AGE
30§ 20. Sources and Literature of the Apostolic Age.
31§ 21. General Character of the Apostolic Age.
32§ 22. The Critical Reconstruction of the History of the Apostolic Age.
33§ 23. Chronology of the Apostolic Age.
34CHAPTER IV. ST. PETER AND THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS
35§ 24. The Miracle of Pentecost and the Birthday of the Christian Church. a.d. 30.
36§ 25. The Church of Jerusalem and the Labors of Peter.
37§ 26. The Peter of History and the Peter of Fiction.
38§ 27. James the Brother of the Lord.
39§ 28. Preparation for the Mission to the Gentiles.
40CHAPTER V. ST. PAUL AND THE CONVERSION OF THE GENTILES.
41§ 29. Sources and Literature on St. Paul and his Work.
42§ 30. Paul before his Conversion.
43§ 31. The Conversion of Paul.
44§ 32. The Work of Paul.
45§ 33. Paul’s Missionary Labors.
46§ 34. The Synod of Jerusalem, and the Compromise between Jewish and Gentile Christianity.
47§ 35. The Conservative Reaction, and the Liberal Victory—
48§ 36. Christianity in Rome.
49CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT TRIBULATION. (MATT. 24:21.)
50§ 37. The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.