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1. A Faith for the World
2. The Conquest of the Roman World, A.D. 100 - 500
3. The Dark Age, 500 - 1000
4. Early European Expansion, 1000 - 1500
5. The Age in Discovery, 1500 - 1600
6. The Roman Catholic Missions, 1600 - 1787
7. New Beginnings in East and West, 1600 - 1800
8. Introduction to Part Two
9. New Forces in Europe and America, 1792- 1858
10. The Heyday of Colonialism, 1858-1914
11. Rome, the Orthodix, and the World, 1815-1914
12. Yesterday and Today, 1914 and After
13. From Mission to Church
Conclusion

Few of us realize the extent to which Christ's bidding has been carried out over the past two thousand years. Today, with nearly 1,000 million adherents, Christianity is easily the most widespread religion on earth.

This volume of The Pelican History of the Church represents the first attempt in English to provide a readable history of the worldwide expansion of all the Christian denominations. Bishop Neill gives a clear outline of the greatest and most sustained campaign in the propagation of a faith and an idea that the world has ever experienced.