Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 : The Ancient Church (to 476).
1. The twelve disciples after the death of Jesus -- 2. Early symbols of Christianity -- 3. The Apostolic Fathers -- 4. The second-century apologists -- 5. The arguments of the apologists -- 6. The third-century fathers -- 7. The development of the New Testament canon -- 8. Books debated for inclusion in the New Testament canon -- 9. Ante-Nicene heresies -- 10. Roman persecutions of Christians -- 11. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers -- 12. Development of episcopacy in the first five centuries -- 13. Factors contributing to the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome -- 14. Major ancient church doctrinal controversies -- 15. Ancient church trinitarian heresies -- 16. Ancient church christological heresies -- 17. The Pelagian controversy -- 18. The ecumenical councils of the early church.

Part 2 : The Medieval Church (476-1517).
19. The conversion of the barbarian tribes -- 20. Church and state, 754-1309 -- 21. Early medieval church leaders -- 22. The primary causes of the East-West schism of 1054 -- 23. The Crusades -- 24. The Muslim conquest and the Crusades - a comparison -- 25. Arguments for the existence of God - the five ways of Thomas Aquinas -- 26. The theology of scholasticsim --
27. Major monastic orders -- 28. Medieval dissenters and heretical groups -- 29. The great schism of the papacy --
30. Medieval ecumenical councils -- 31. Forerunners of the Reformation.

Part 3 : The Reformation (1517-1648).
32. Four major reformers -- 33. Other German reformers -- 34. Other Swiss reformers -- 35. The radical reformers -- 36. The English reformers -- 37. The English Puritans -- 38. Leaders of the Catholic Counter-Reformation -- 39. Leaders of the French Huguenots -- 40. Religious wars of the Reformation -- 41. Theological issues - Protestant vs. Catholic -- 42. Theological issues - Lutheran vs Reformed -- 43. Theological issues - Calvinist vs Arminian -- 44. A family tree of Protestant denominational groups.

Part 4 : The Modern European Church (from 1648).
45. English deism and its opponents -- 46. German Pietism and English Methodism - a comparison -- 47. John Wesley and George Whitefield a a contrast -- 48. Other European revivals -- 49. Evangelical social reformers in England -- 50. Major figures in German liberal theology -- 51. Modern Roman Catholic ecumenical councils -- 52. The growth and development of the World Council of Churches.

Part 5 : The American Church (from 1607).
53. Religion in the thirteen colonies -- 54. Religious utopian communities in America -- 55. The American Puritans -- 56. Leaders of the First Great Awakening -- 57. Religious influences supporting the American Revolution -- 58. Religious influences opposed to the American Revolution -- 59. Leaders of the Second Great Awakening -- 60. Major nineteenth-century evangelical social reform movements -- 61 Denominational schisms over slavery -- 62. Major nineteenth-century American cults -- 63 Late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century revivalists -- 64. Key figures in the dissemination of Dispensationalism in America -- 65. A comparison of historic Covenant and historic Dispensational theology -- 66. Denominational divisions over the modernist-fundamentalist controversy -- 67. Key figures in twentieth-century Presbyterian schisms -- 68. An American Presbyterian family tree -- 69. An American Baptist family tree -- 70. An American Lutheran family tree -- 71. An American Methodist and Episcopal family tree -- 72. An American Reformed and Congregational family tree -- 73. An American Pentecostal family tree -- 74. An American Mennonite family tree -- 75. A Mormon family tree -- 76. An Adventist family tree.

Part 6 : Miscellaneous.
77. The parallel structures of systematic theologyu and church history -- 78. The pendulum effect in church history -- 79. The popes recognised by the Roman Catholic church -- 80. Prominent protestant missionaries -- 81. Prominent Roman Catholic missionaries -- 82. Major indigenous Chritian religious movements in Africa -- 83. Translations of the Bible into English -- 84. Notable Protestant historians of the church.