The Lion concise book of Christian thought / by Tony Lane.

First published in 1984.

THE CHURCH OF THE FATHERS: Platoism and Greek philosophy -- Apostolic Fathers -- Justin Martyr -- Irenaeus -- Tertullian -- Clement of Alexandria -- Origen -- Cyprian -- Eusebius of Caesarea -- Council of Nicea (325) -- Athanasius -- Ephrem the Syrian -- The Cappodocian Fathers -- Council of Constantinople (381) -- Ambrose -- John Chrysostom -- Jerome -- Augustine -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Council of Ephesus (431) -- Theodoret of Cyrus -- Leo the Great -- Council of Chalcedon (451) -- Apostles' Creed --

THE EASTERN TRADITION: Dionysius the Areopagite -- Council of Constantinople (553) -- Maximum the Confessor -- Council of Constantinople (680-81) -- John of Damascus -- Council of Nicea (787) -- Simeon the New Theologian -- Gregory Palamas -- Confession of Dositheus (1672) --

THE MEDIEVAL WEST: Athanasian Creed -- Boethius -- Council of Orange (529) -- Benedict -- Gregory the Great -- John Scotus Erigena -- Anselm -- Peter Abelard -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- Peter Lombard -- Joachim of Fiore -- Fourt Lateran Council (1215) -- Francis of Assisi -- Bonaventure -- Thomas Aquinas -- John Duns Scotus -- William of Ockham -- Thomas Bradwardine -- John Tauler -- Catherine of Siena -- John Wyclif -- Jan Hus -- Council of Florence (1438-45) -- Thomas à Kempis -- Gabriel Biel --

REFORMATION AND REACTION:

Desiderius Erasmus --

THE LUTHERAN TRADITION: Martin Luther -- Philip Melanchthon -- Augsburg Confesson (1530) -- Formula of Concord (1577) -- Philip Jakob Spener --

THE REFORMED TRADITION: Ulrich Zwingli -- Martin Bucer -- John Calvin -- Heidelberg Catechism (1563) -- Jakob Arminius -- Synod of Dort (1618-19) -- Jonathan Edwards --

THE ANABAPTISTS: Schleitheim Confession (1527) -- Menno Simons --

THE BRITISH REFORMATION: William Tyndale -- Thomas Cranmer -- John Knox -- Thirty-nine Articles -- Richard Hooker -- William Perkins -- Westminster Confession -- John Owen -- Second London Confession (1677) -- John Bunyan -- John & Charles Wesley --

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RESPONSE: Ignatius Loyola -- Council of Trent (1545-63) -- Teresa of Avila -- Robert Bellarmine -- Blaise Pascal --

CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IN THE MODERN WORLD:

THE LIBERALS: Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Albrecht Ritschl -- Adolf von Harnack --

THE EVANGELICALS: Charles Finney -- Peter Forsyth -- Benjamin Warfield -- Gerrit Berkouwer -- Helmut Thielicke --

THE NEW ORTHODOXY: Karl Barth -- Gustaf Aulén -- Barmen Declaration (1934) -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Reinhold Niebuhr --

THE EXISTENTIALISTS: Soren Kiekegaard -- Rudolf Bultmann -- Paul Tillich --

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: Process Theology -- Jurgen Moltmann -- Wolfhart Pannenberg -- Feminist Theology --

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS: John Henry Newman -- Ineffabilis Deus (1854) -- First Vatican Council (1869-70) -- Munificentissimus Deus (1950) -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Second Vatican Council (1962-65) -- Karl Rahner -- Hans Kéüng --

A WORLD-WIDE FAITH: World Council of Churches -- Martin Luther King -- Kosuke Koyama -- John Mbiti -- Liberation Theology -- Lausanne Congress (1974)

An introduction to the thinkers and writers who have shaped Christian history and Western culture, as well as to the books, documents and creeds they left behind. From the first century to the 20th, from Palestine via Europe to Asia and Africa, these thinkers speak to us in this book.
Includes Augustine, Francis of Assisi, John Wyclif, Thomas a Kempis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Knox, John Bunyan, John & Charles Wesley, Deitrich Bonhoeffer, the Apostle's Creed, Council of Nicea, Westminster Confession, Lausanne Congress, and much more.--Back cover.