Turning points: decisive moments in the history of Christianity

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).