Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-514) and index.

The church and the world -- Creeds -- The earliest testimony to the Gospels -- The person and work of Christ -- The problem of the relation of the divinity and the humanity in Christ -- Pelagianism : human nature, sin, and grace -- The church, the ministry, and the sacraments -- The authority of the Holy See -- Doctrine and development : the Vincentian canon -- Christian inscriptions -- From Chalcedon to the breach between East and West -- The empire and the papacy -- Monasticism and the friars -- The church and heresy -- The conciliar movement -- Scholasticism -- The church in England until the Reformation -- The Reformation on the continent -- The Reformation in England -- The Roman Catholic Church from the Counter-Reformation to the Second Vatican Council -- The British churches in the seventeenth century -- The British churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The Roman Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council -- The twentieth-century world churches : justice, peace, and the environment -- The twentieth-century world churches and inter-faith dialogue -- The twentieth-century churches and Christian unity -- The twentieth-century churches : sexuality and procreation -- The churches and twenty-first-century issues.