Christian History

Many Christians study the Bible and then read popular Christian authors. Not many know the history of how the Church has developed. These resources will help you fill in the gaps in your knowledge and inspire you to learn more about the people and events that have shaped the course of Christian history.

 

Summary Timeline of Christian History (text)

 

Early and Medieval Church History with Ryan Reeves (illustrated videos)

1. The Ancient Greek World
2. The Ancient Roman World
3. Roman Pagan Life and Worship
4. Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism
5. Early Christian Persecution
6. The Apostolic Fathers
7. Christian Apologists and Early Heresies
8. Gnosticism and the Early Church
9. Monasticism
10. Rome and the Third Century Crisis
11. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
12. Constantine the Great
13. The Byzantine Christian Empire part 1
14. The Byzantine Christian Empire part 2
15. Creeds and Councils: What Are They?
16. Early Church and Trinity: Father and Son
17. Arius and Nicea
18. After Nicea
    
19. Council of Constantinople
20. Disputes on Christ: Nestorius and Cyril
21. Council of Chalcedon
22. Ambrose and Jerome
23. Augustine part 1
24. Augustine part 2
25. Medieval Overview
26. The Merovingians
27. Who was Charlemagne?
28. The Vikings
29. Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxons
30. Al Andalus Spain
31. Knights and Chivalry
32. The First Crusades
33. Crusades
34. Medieval Life, Death, and Marriage
35. Medieval Society
36. Magna Carta
37. Black Death
38. Great Schism
39. Avignon Papacy
40. 100 Years War
41. Papal Schism
42. Boethius and Christian Philosophy
43. Aristotle and Scholasticism
44. Anselm on God: The Ontological Argument
45. Abelard on the Trinity
46. Abelard on the Cross
47. Bernard of Clairvaux
48. Duns Scotus
49. Thomas Aquinas part 1
50. Thomas Aquinas part 2
51. William of Ockham
52. John Wycliffe
53. Jan Hus
54. Humanism

 

Reformation and Modern Church History with Ryan Reeves (illustrated videos)

1. Late Medieval Background to the Reformation
2. Luther's Reformation Breakthrough
3. Luther's Reformation
4. Henry VIII and Early Anglicanism
5. Later Lutheranism part 1
6. Later Lutheranism part 2
7. Calvin and Bullinger: The Reformed Tradition
8. Huguenots and the French Reformation
9. Ignatius Loyal and the Catholic Reformation
10. Elizabeth I and Anglicanism
11. The 17th Century
12. Stuart England
13. Puritanism
14. The English Civil War and Puritanism
15. Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers
16. The Dutch Revolt and Arminianism
17. Lutheran Pietism
18. Enlightenment part 1
19. Enlightenment part 2
20. The 18th Century
21. Pilgrims and the New World
22. The Life of John Wesley
23. Wesley and Whitefield
24. Jonathan Edwards
25. The First Great Awakening
26. American Revolution and the Church
27. The Second Great Awakening
28. Voltaire and the Radical Enlightenment
29. Catholics in America
30. The 19th Century
31. Liberalism and the Church
32. Great Awakenings: Holiness and Restoration Movements
33. Catholicism and Vatican I
34. The Oxford Movement
35. Christian Fundamentalism
36. World War I and the Church
37. The Rise of Evangelicalism
38. Pentecostalism
39. The Black Church and Civil Rights