Athens Academy Award.
By Archim. Vasilios Stefanidis, professor at the University of Athens

This work is distinguished by a strict selection of material, fidelity to historical reality, clarity, and bibliographic completeness.

Contents

Publisher's Preface 11
Prolegomena 13

FIRST PERIOD
From Jesus Christ to the schism of the Western Church.

FIRST SECTION
From Jesus Christ to Constantine the Great.

CHAPTER A - The archaic era.
§ 1. Historical prerequisites and the founding of the Christian Church .18
§ 2. The close connection between Christianity and Judaism, the gradual separation
of the former from the latter, and its spread in the Gentile world... 28
§ 3. The idea of the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ and the enthusiastic tendencies arising from it 41

CHAPTER B - Gnostics and Marcion and the Christian Church's struggle against them.
§ 4. Gnostics and Marcion 61
§ 5. The Church's struggle against the Gnostics and Marcion 72
§ 6. The reaction against the Church 78

CHAPTER C - Development of the organization of divine worship and theological letters from the mid-2nd century.
§ 7. Organization 94
§ 8. Divine worship 101
§ 9. Theological letters 123

SECOND SECTION
From Constantine the Great to the schism of the Western Church.
CHAPTER A - The new conditions of the Christian Church and the reaction against them.
§ 10. The position of Christianity in relation to the state and national religion.. 138
§ 11. Relations between Church and state 149
§ 12. Monastic life 153

CHAPTER B - The doctrinal definition of Christian teaching.
§ 13. The Trinitarian doctrine 166
§ 14. The Christological doctrine 209
§ 15. The doctrine of salvation 249
§ 16. Paulicianism and Iconoclasm 253

CHAPTER C - The spread of Christianity
§ 17. The spread of Christianity in the West 264
§ 18. The spread of Christianity in the East 271

CHAPTER D - Organization, divine worship, Christian life, and theological letters.
§ 19. Organization 279
§ 20. Divine worship 304
§ 21. Theological letters 325

SECOND PERIOD
From the schism of the Western Church
to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453) and the Reformation in the Western Church in the 16th century.

FIRST SECTION
The Eastern Church
CHAPTER A - The schism of the Eastern and Western Churches and the attempts at union.
§ 22. The schism of the Eastern and Western Churches 343
§ 23. Attempts at union of the Eastern and Western Churches 379

CHAPTER B - The spread of Christianity.
§ 24. The Christianization of the South Slavs and the Romanians 398
§ 25. The Christianization of the Western Slavs and the Hungarians 401
§ 26. The Christianization of the Northern Slavs 406

CHAPTER C - Heresies and theological disputes.
§ 27. Remnants of ancient heresies, namely Nestorianism, Monophysitism, and
Monothelitism. The "heretical Churches" of the East 411
§ 28. New heresies and theological disputes 421

CHAPTER D - Organization, divine worship, Christian life, and theological letters.
§ 29. Organization 439
§ 30. Divine worship and Christian life 463
§ 31. Theological Letters 467

SECTION TWO
The Western Church

CHAPTER A' - The Peak and Decline of Papacy.
§ 32. Relations between Church and State until the "Investiture" conflict 479
§ 33. The conflict over investiture and world dominion, victory and peak of papacy 488
§ 34. The decline of papacy 509

CHAPTER B' - Results of the peak of papacy.
§ 35. The Crusades against the Muslims 515
§ 36. The development of the organization of the Western Church 521
§ 37. The development of divine worship 536
§ 38. The development of theological letters 545

CHAPTER C' - Results of the decline of papacy.
§ 39. The new theory about the Church in the West and the reform councils.
anti-papal ideas 561
§ 40. The emancipation of the states and churches of the West from papacy 567
§ 41. The reaction against papacy by heresies, anti-papal and anti-sacerdotal
ideas (transitional stage to Protestantism) 570

THIRD PERIOD
From the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (1453) and the Reformation of the 16th century to the present.

SECTION ONE
The Western Church.

CHAPTER A' - Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
§ 42. The three reformers, Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin 586
§ 43. The counter-reformation of the papal Church 606
§ 44. Struggle between reformation and counter-reformation 611

CHAPTER B' - Ecclesiastical and theological controversies and heresies in the papal and Protestant Church.
§ 45. Ecclesiastical and theological controversies and heresies until the Enlightenment
a' In the papal Church 625
b' In the Protestant Church 630
§ 46. Ecclesiastical controversies and heresies from the Enlightenment to the present
a' In the papal Church 637
b' In the Protestant Church 643

CHAPTER C' - Organization, divine worship, and theological letters
§ 47. Organization and divine worship of the papal Church 652
§ 48. Organization and divine worship of the Protestant Church 662
§ 49. The theological letters of Protestants and papists
a' In the Protestant Church 667
b' In the papal Church 680

SECTION TWO
The Eastern Church
CHAPTER A' - Relations of the Eastern Church with the Turkish state and the Churches of the West.
§ 50. Relations of the Eastern Church with the Turkish state 688
§ 51. Relations of the Eastern Orthodox Church with the papal Church 696
§ 52. Relations of the Eastern Orthodox Church with the Protestant Church 703

CHAPTER B' - Heresies and schisms.
§ 53. Heresies and theological controversies 714
§ 54. The Bulgarian schism and the Bulgarian Exarchate 720

CHAPTER C' - Organization, divine worship, Christian life, and theological letters.
§ 55. Organization 745
§ 56. Divine worship and Christian life 760
§ 57. Theological letters 766

TABLES AND INDEXES
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 777
TABLE OF ROMAN AND BYZANTINE EMPERORS 794
LISTS OF PATRIARCHS
a' of Constantinople 796
b' of Alexandria 799
c' of Antioch 800
d' of Jerusalem 801
LIST OF POPES OF ROME 802
ALPHABETICAL INDEX (Greek and Latin) 805