Church History

 

Miller's Church History

Introduction 
The Seven Churches of Asia 

1: The Rock Foundation 
Foundation of the Church
Opening of the Kingdom of Heaven
Church Government

2: The Day of Pentecost
Resurrection and Ascension of Christ
Descent of the Holy Ghost 
Calling in of the Gentiles
First Christian Martyr

3: The Disciples Persecuted and Scattered
Jerusalem and Samaria United by the Gospel
Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

4: The First Missionaries of the Cross
The Twelve Apostles 
Herodian Line of Kings

5: The Apostle Paul
First Visit to Jerusalem 
First Missionary Journey
Third Visit to Jerusalem
Visit to Athens

6: Paul's Third Missionary Journey
Departure for Macedonia 
Fifth Visit to Jerusalem 
Before the Sanhedrin
Martyrdom of Paul

7: The Burning of Rome 
First Persecution Under the Emperors 
Downfall of Jerusalem 
The Real Cause of Persecution
Persecutions in France

8: The Internal History of the Church 
Apostolic Fathers 
Origin of Clergy and Laity
Origin of Dioceses

9: From Commodus till the Accession of Constantine.
Persecution in Africa 
Altered Position of Christianity 
The General State of Christianity 
The Condition of the Church

10: Constantine the Great 
Church as Constantine Found It 
Effects of Royal Favour 
Baptism and Death of Constantine

11: The Council of Nice 
The Council of Tyre
The Barbaric Invaders

12: The Internal History of the Church 
Infant Baptism 
First Society of Ascetics 
Calamities of Rome

13: The Epistle to the Church in Thyatira 
Leo the First, Surnamed the Great
Missionary Zeal of Gregory
Romish Hierarchy in England

14: The Spread of Christianity Over Europe 
First Preachers in Ireland 
First Preachers in Scotland
Foreshadowing of the Man of Sin

15: Mohammed, the False Prophet of Asia. 
Religion of Islam 
Successors of Mohammed. 
Second Council of Nicaea

16: The Silver Line of Sovereign Grace 
Origin of the Paulicians 
Religious Wars of Charlemagne 
Feudal Hierarchical System.

17: The Propagation of Christianity 
Louis the Pious 
The Slavonians Receive the Gospel 
England, Scotland, and Ireland

18: The Church-Building Spirit Revived. 
Learning of the Arabs Imported into Christendom 
Traces of the Silver Line of God's Grace

19: The Pontificate of Gregory VII
Gregory and Clerical Independence 
Celibacy and Simony 
The Emperor Deposed by the Pope 
Effects of the Papal Policy 
Burning of Ancient Rome

20: The Crusades 
The First Crusade 
The Second Crusade 
The Third Crusade 
The Remainder of the Crusades

21: Henry V and Gregory's Successors
St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux. 
The Great Council of the Lateran 
Arnold of Brescia

22: The Encroachments of Rome in England 
The Introduction of Canon Law into England 
Thomas a Becket and Henry II
The "Constitutions of Clarendon"

23: The Theology of the Church of Rome
Transubstantiation 
Mary — Worship 
Saint — Worship 
Relic — Worship 
Purgatory 
Extreme Unction 
Auricular Confession 
Indulgences.

24: Innocent III and His Times 
Innocent's Views of Popedom 
Philip and Otho 
Innocent and England
England Surrendered to Rome

25: Innocent and the South of France
Peter Waldo 
Raymond a Spiritual Outlaw
The Real Object of the Catholics

26: The Inquisition Established in Languedoc 
The Application of Torture 
The Auto de Fe
St. Benedict 
New Orders — St. Dominic and St. Francis

27: The Approaching Dawn of the Reformation 
Christianity in Ireland 
Christianity in Scotland 
Popery as a System.

28: The Decline of Papal Power
Gregory IX and Frederick II
The Overruling Hand of God 
The Humiliation of the Pontiff

29: The Forerunners of the Reformation
Literary Men 
The Theologians 
The Waldenses
The Dark Year of 1560

30: John Wycliffe 
England and the Papacy 
Wycliffe and the Bible 
The Lollards.

31: The Reformation Movement in Bohemia 
The Imprisonment of John Huss 
The Arrest and Imprisonment of Jerome
The United Brethren or Moravians

32: The Capture of Constantinople
The First Printed Bible 
The Immediate Precursors of Luther 
Reflections on the Life of Savonarola

33: The Reformation in Germany 
Popery and Mankind 
The First Period of Luther's Life 
Luther's Conversion

34: The First Papal Jubilee 
Luther's Public Appeal 
Distinguished Men of the Sixteenth Century 
The Diet of Worms

35: Luther at Wartburg. 
Luther and the German Bible 
The Hundred Grievances 
The First Diet of Spires

36: Protestantism 
The Lutheran Churches 
Meetings of the Protestants

37: The Sacramentarian Controversy
The Conference at Marburg 
A Proposal for Toleration and Unity

38: The Council at Bologna 
The Diet of Augsburg
The Articles of Faith 
The Letters of Melanchthon and Luther

39: The Popish Refutation 
The Final Decree
The League of Smalcald 
The Peace of Ratisbon

40: The Reformation in Switzerland 
Zwingle, Pastor of Glaris 
The Rising Storm

41: The Leaders of the Reformation in Switzerland
The Progress of the Reformation-Zurich
Zwingle and His Brothers 
The Disputations at Zurich

42: The Results of the Disputations 
The Answer of Zurich to Lucerne 
The Swiss and German Reformation 
The Weapons of Rome's Warfare

43: The General Progress of Reform 
The Reformation in Berne 
The Conference at Baden 
The Great Conference at Berne 
The Reformation of Basle

44: The Extension of Reform in Switzerland. 
The Five Cantons Form a League with Austria
The Treaty of Cappel
War Declared Against Zurich

45: The Reformation in Germany 
The Great Actors Passing Off the Scene 
The Death of Luther
Reflections on the Life of Luther

46: The Opening of the Council of Trent 
The Smalcald War
The Treachery of Maurice 
The German's Treated as a Conquered People

47: "The Interim"
The Revolution in Germany
The Calamities of the Protestants
The Rise of the Jesuits

48: The Effect of the Reformation in Germany on the Nations of Europe
Nations of Europe 
Sweden and Denmark 
Italy 
Spain 
The Netherlands

49: The Reformation in French Switzerland 
Early History of William Farel 
The Arrival of Calvin in Geneva 
Calvin and Calvinism

50: The Reformation in France
The Bible in French at Meaux
Commencement of Persecution in France
The Year of the Placards

51: The Great Progress of the Reformation 
The First Planting of the Reformed Church in France 
The Saint Bartholomew Massacre
The Council of Trent

52: The Waldenses
The Wars of Extermination 
The Sympathy of England
The Persecution and Expulsion of the Waldenses

53: The Reformation in the British Isles 
Ireland
Scotland
The Fiery Zeal of Cardinal Beaton
George Wishart 
John Knox

54: The Reformation in England
The Reformation Begun 
The Persecution Begins
Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer

55: The Reign of Elizabeth
The Puritans
John Wesley 
Sunday Schools
Foreign Missions

56: Philadelphia
Laodicea
Church Truth
The Spread of the Truth 
Conclusion