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Part I: When the Christian Church was Young The New Testament Church Is Born The Church Grows Outwardly The Church Grows Inwardly The Church is Tempered The Church is Victorious The Church Consolidates The Church Deteriorates The Church Survives and Grows Again Part II: The Church in the Middle Ages The Church Loses Territory The Church is Divided The Church Forms an Alliance The Church Develops Its Organization The Church in Bondage to the State The Church Develops Monasticism The Church Makes Efforts to Free Itself The Church Continues Effforts to Free Itself The Church FAces a Great Struggle The Church is Forced to Compromise The Church Inspires the Crusades The Church Rises to the Greatest Height of Its Power The Church Declines in Power The Church is Stirred Part III: The Church in the Reformation The Church is Shaken The Church is Convulsed The Church is Reformed in Germany and Scandinavia The Church is Reformed in German Switzerland The Church is Reformed in French Switzerland The Church is Reformed in Frence and in the Netherlands The Church is Reformed in Scotland The Church is Reformed in England The Roman Church Undertakes Reform The Protestant Churches Fight for Their Life Part IV: The Church After the Reformation The Church In the Post-Reformation Era The Church in England Continues to Ferment The Conflict Between Catholics and Protestants Continues The Rise and Growth of the Congregationalists The Rise and Growth of the Baptists Serious Departures From Historic Protestantism More Moderate Departures from Historic Protestantism The Origin and Development of Methodism Modernism`s Break with Historic Christianity The Eastern and the Roman Church since the Reformation. 1648 to the Present Controversy Continues in Germany and England The Reformed Churches Survive Persecution The Church Grows Once More, 1500 to the Present Part V: The Church in the United States The Church is Extended into the New World The Church Experiences a Great Awakening The Church and the War for Independence The Churches in the New National Period The Church Moves West The Church Experiences a Second Awakening The Church in a Time of Turmoil The Civil War and Reconstruction Periods The Church Faces Modern Problems The Church Seeks to Preserve the Faith The Churches Seek Co-operation and Union A Look Backward and Forward