Church history is important because it shows us how God's faithful dealings with His people in the Bible continue in the ongoing life and work of Christ in our world. If you have ever wished for a short book highlighting church history's most important events that will enlighten your mind and peak your interest, this is the one you've been waiting for. Three prolific church historians collaborate their efforts in Church History 101 to present you with a quick read of church history's high points. Table of Preface First Apostolic Foundations Second The Church of Martyrs and Confessors Third Persecution and Heresy; Origen and Tertullian Fourth The Beginnings of the Christian Empire Fifth The City of God and the City of Man Sixth Justinian, Benedict, and the Conversion of the Scots Seventh Gregory the Great and the Rise of Islam Eighth The Iconoclastic Controversy Ninth Struggle for Power in the Church; Ratramnus and Gottschalk Tenth The Dark Ages Eleventh The Great Schism; Anselm of Canterbury Twelfth The Crusades, Abelard, Lombard, and the Waldenses Thirteenth Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas Fourteenth The Church's Babylonian Captivity and John Wycliffe Fifteenth The Renaissance, Huss, Savonarola, and Groote Sixteenth Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation Seventeenth Reforming the Church in England Eighteenth The Great Awakening Nineteenth Beginnings of Modern Theology and Kingdom Builders Twentieth The Age of Paradoxes