Walker,
Williston. A History of the Christian
Church. New York: Charles Scribner’s Son, 1959.
It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/history-Christian-church-Williston-Walker/dp/1177163535/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1378781511&sr=8-2&keywords=williston+walkerContents
Period One: FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE GNOSTIC
CRISIS, 3-50
1. The
General Situation
2. Jewish
Background
3. Jesus
and the Disciples
4. The
Palestinian Christian Communities
5. Paul
and Gentile Christianity
6. The
Close of the Apostolic Age
7. The
Interpretation of Jesus
8. Gentile
Christianity of the Second Century
9. Relations
of Christianity to the Roman Government
10.
The Apologiest
Period Two: FROM THE GNOSTIC CRISIS TO
CONSTANTINE, 51-104
1. Gnosticism
2. Marcion
3. Montanism
4. Catholic
Church
5. Growing
Importance of Rome
6. Irenaeus
7. Tertullian
and Cyprian
8. The
Triumph of the Logos Christology in the West
9. The
Alexandrian School
10. Church
and State from 180-260
11. The
Constitutional Development of the Church
12. Public
Worship and Sacred Seasons
13. Baptism
14. The
Lord’s Supper
15. Forgiveness
of Sins
16. The
Composition of the Church and the Higher and Lower Morality
17. Rest
and Growth, 260-303
18. Rival
Religious Forces
19. The
Final Struggle
Period Three: THE IMPERIAL STATE CHURCH, 105-178
1. The
Changed Situation
2. The
Arian Controversy to the Death of Constantine
3. Controversy
Under Constantine’s Sons
4. The
Later Nicene Struggle
5. Arian
Missions and the Germanic Invasions
6. The
Growth of the Papacy
7. Monasticism
8. Ambrose
and Chrysostom
9. The
Christological Controversies
10. The
East Divided
11. Catastrophes
and Further Controversies in the East
12. The
Constitutional Development of the Church
13. Public
Worship and Sacred Seasons
14. Popular
Christianity
15. Some
Western Characteristics
16. Jerome
17. Augustine
18. The
Pelagian Controversy
19. Semi-Pelagianism
20. Gregory
the Great
Period Four: THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE CLOSE OF THE
INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY, 179-218
1. Missions in the British Isles
2. Continental Missions and Papal Growth
3. The Franks and Papacy
4. Charlemagne
5. Ecclesiastical Institutions
6. Collapsing Empire and Rising Papacy
7. Papal Decline and Renewal of the Revived Roman
Empire
8. Reform Movements
9. The Reform Party Secures the Papacy
10. The
Papacy Breaks with the Empire
11. Hildebrand
and Henry IV
12. The
Struggle Ends in Compromise
13. The
Greek Church after the Picture Controversy
14. The
Spread of the Church
Period Five: THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, 219-300
1. The
Crusades
2. New
Religious Movements
3. Antichurchly
Sects: Cathari and Waldenses. The Inquisition
4. The
Dominicans and Franciscans
5. Early
Scholasticism
6. The
Universities
7. High
Scholasticism and its Theology
8. The
Mystics
9. Missions
and Defeats
10. The
Papacy at Its Height and Its Decline
11. The
Papacy in Avignon, Criticism. The Schism
12. Wyclif
and Huss
13. The
Reforming Councils
14. The
Italian Renaissance and Its Popes
15. The
New National Powers
16. Renaissance
and Other Influences North of the Alps
Period Six: THE REFORMATION, 301-424
1. Luther’s
Development and the Beginnings of the Reformation
2. Separations
and Divisions
3. The
Swiss Reformation
4. The
Anabaptists
5. German
Protestantism Established
6. The
Scandinavian Lands
7. Revolt
in French Switzerland and Geneva Before Calvin
8. John
Calvin
9. The
English Revolt
10. The
Roman Revival
11. The
Struggle in France, the Netherlands, and England
12. German
Controversies and the Thirty Years’ War
13. Socinianism
14. Arminianism
15. Anglicanism,
Puritanism, and the Free Churches in England, Episcopacy and Presbyterianism in
Scotland
16. The
Quakers
Period Seven: MODERN CHRISTIANITY, 425-548
1. The
Beginnings of Modern Science and Philosophy
2. The
Transplantation of Christianity to America
3. Deism
and Its Opponents. Scepticism
4. Unitarianism
in England and America
5. Pietism
in Germany
6. Zinzendorf
and Moravianism
7. The
Evangelical Revival in Great Britain, Wesley and Methodism
8. The
Great Awakening
9. The
Impact of the Evangelical Revival. The Rise of Modern Missions
10. The
Revolutionary Epoch in the United States
11. The
German Enlightenment
12. Trends
in Nineteenth Century Protestant Thought in Germany
13. British
Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century
14. Continental
Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century
15. American
Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century
16. Modern
Roman Catholicism
17. The
Eastern Churches in Modern Times
18. The
Ecumenical Movement
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS, 549-570
INDEX, 571 
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