Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Characteristics of Church history -- 2. The fullness of time -- 3. Expansion inside the Roman Empire -- 4. The life of the earliest church -- 5. The church and the Roman state -- 6. Expansion beyond the Roman Empire -- 7. Conflicts and the definition of dogma -- 8. The Church fathers -- 9. Cyprian -- 10. Augustine -- 11. Monasticism -- 12. Collapse in the West -- 13. The rise and expansion of Islam -- 14. Expansion in North West Europe 590-800 -- 15. Church and state in competition -- 16. Monastic reforms -- 17. Eastern Orthodox Church -- 18. The Crusades -- 19. Medieval Papacy -- 20. Education and learning -- 21. Reform and dissent -- 22. An era of great change -- 23. Martin Luther 1483-1546 -- 24. Huldrych Zwingli 1484-1531 -- 25. Martin Bucer 1491-1551 -- 26. John Calvin 1509-1564 -- 27. The radical reformers --28. Reformation in France -- 29. Reformation the Netherlands -- 30. Reformation in England -- 31. Reformation in Scotland -- 32. The Counter Reformation -- 33. The Enlightenment -- 34. Roman Catholicism 1648-1800 --35. Roman Catholicism 1800-1900 -- 36. European Protestantism 1648-1800 -- v. 37. European Protestantism 1800-1900 -- 38. North American Protestantism 1600-1900 -- 39. Theological developments 1800-2000 -- 40. Cooperation and unity --

41. Church and ideology -- 42. Africa on the eve of change -- 43. Nubian and Ethiopian Christianity -- 44. Africa and early Portuguese Missions -- 45. Africa and the Dutch until 1800 -- 46. Africa and the British until 1885 -- 47. Western Africa 1800-1900 -- 48. Southern Africa 1800-1900 -- 49. Eastern Africa 1800-1900 -- 50. Africa's old Colonisers after 1885 -- 51. Africa's new Colonisers after 1885 -- 52. Missions and Colonialism 1885-1960 -- 53. African Instituted churches -- 54. Church and mission in independent Africa -- 55. Faith missions -- 56. Unity and cooperation -- 57. The Church in Malawi -- 58. The Church in Zambia -- 59. The Church in Zimbabwe -- 60. Pentecostals and charismatics -- 61. The position of Africa's women -- 62. Conversion -- 63. Europe and Africa in the post-modern age.