The church pushed out on its own: the fall of Jerusalem (70)
Realities of empire: the Council of Nicaea (325)
Doctrine, politics, and life in the word: the Council of Chalcedon (451)
The monastic rescue of the church: Benedict's Rule (530)
The culmination of Christendom: the coronation of Charlemagne (800)
Division between east and west: the Great Schism (1054)
The beginnings of protestantism: the Diet of Worms (1521)
A new Europe: the English act of supremacy (1534)
Catholic reform and worldwide outreach: the founding of the Jesuits (1540)
The new piety: the conversion of the Wesleys (1738)
Discontents of the modern west: the French Revolution (1789)
A faith for all the world: the Edinburgh Missionary Conference (1910)
Mobilizing for the future: the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (1974).
