Evolution of Christianity

Marshall D. Johnson is the former Director of Fortress Press (1990-1997). His recent book Making Sense of the Bible: Literary Type as an Approach to Understanding was selected as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books for 2002.

• 1. From Jesus to the Apostolic Fathers: The Crisis of Birth and Adolescence; 2. From Variety to Orthodoxy and Heresy: The Crisis of Self-Definition; 3. From Persecution and Calumny to State Religion: The Crisis of the State; 4. The Trinitarian and Christological Controversies: The Crisis of Monotheism; 5. Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy: The Crisis of Salvation; 6. Oligarchy and Monarchy, East and West: The Crisis of Authority; 7. The Crusades: The Crisis of Islam; 8. Scholastics, Friars, Heretics, and Mystics: Crises of Spirituality; 9. The Reformation: The Crisis of Salvation Once Again; 10. Orthodoxism, Pietism, and Rationalism: The Crisis of Modernity; 11. Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: The Crisis of Relativity; 12. Christian Faith Today: The Crisis of Postmodernism

-Mention. Theology Digest/ Vol. 52 No. 3/ Fall 2005