TY - BOOK AU - Meister,Chad V. AU - Stump,J.B. TI - Christian thought: a historical introduction SN - 9780203851937 AV - BR 145.3 MEI U1 - BR 145.3 MEI 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Church history KW - Theology KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -