The History of ChristianityFront matterReading editionChapter navigation29 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTHE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITYPREFACE.Chapter I · THE BIRTH, CHILDHOOD, AND EARLY MINISTRY, OF JESUS.Chapter II · TOUR THROUGH GALILEE.Chapter III · THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS, AND MIRACLES OF HEALING.Chapter IV · LAST LABORS, AND FAREWELL TO HIS DISCIPLES.Chapter V · ARREST, TRIAL, AND CRUCIFIXION.Chapter VI · THE CONVERSION AND MINISTRY OF SAUL OF TARSUS.Chapter VII · MISSIONARY ADVENTURES.Chapter VIII · THE CAPTIVE IN CHAINS.Chapter IX · THE FIRST PERSECUTION.Chapter X · ROMAN EMPERORS, GOOD AND BAD.Chapter XI · MARTYRDOM.Chapter XII · PAGAN ROME.Chapter XIII · SIN AND MISERY.Chapter XIV · INVASION CIVIL WAR, AND UNRELENTING PERSECUTION.Chapter XV · CONSTANTINE.—THE BANNER OF THE CROSS UNFURLED.Chapter XVI · THE CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE.Chapter XVII · JULIAN THE APOSTATE.Chapter XVIII · THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS OF JULIAN.Chapter XIX · THE FIFTH CENTURY.Chapter XX · CENTURIES OF WAR AND WOE.Chapter XXI · THE DARK AGES.Chapter XXII · THE REFORMATION.Chapter XXIII · THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.Chapter XXIV · THE CHURCH IN MODERN TIMES.Footnotes.Transcriber’s Notes.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITYAll chapters and sections (29)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTHE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITYPREFACE.Chapters123456789101112131415161718192021222324Other sectionsFootnotes.Transcriber’s Notes.Book CoverTHE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY →