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Introduction
Incubations and origins : the ancient period, 500 BCE-70 CE. The pre-history of Christian thought
Jesus of Nazareth
The Apostle Paul : his thought and context
The break from Judaism
Definition and resistance : the Patristic period, 70-451. Persecution of Christians
Spirituality and asceticism : the desert fathers and mothers
The Christian apologists : interacting with gnosticism and other "heresies"
The early church councils : Christological controversy and definition
Trinitarian debate
Formation of the New Testament canon
Augustine : philosopher, theologian, and church father
Establishment and diversification : the medieval period, 500-1500. Monasticism of the early Middle Ages
Eastern Christianity splits from the West
Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard
Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages
Women and theology in the Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas
Preparation for reform
Protest and revolution : the Reformation period, 1500-1700. Martin Luther
The Reformed tradition
Protesting against the Protestants : Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation
Reformation continues : the English and the Catholics
Enlightenment and evolution : the modern period, 1700-2000. The challenge of modernism
Pietism and revivalism
Romanticism's response to Enlightenment theology
Neo-orthodoxy : Karl Barth and others
Major theological traditions and developments in the twentieth century
Conclusion : recent and emerging themes.
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Christian thought : a historical introduction by Chad V. Meister. ISBN 9780203851937. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.