The general history of the church. From the origin of the church to the Reformation. In 2 books. First book

The allowance for the first time in Russian literature gives a single outline of the development of the Christian Church (the expandable as a system of different faiths and denominations) as a social institution from the time of its formation to the present. The presentation is based on the problematic principle: the development of church institutions is considered from the point of view of the state of their organizational unity. Volume 1 of the publication covers the period from the founding of the church to the formation of the prerequisites of the Protestant Reformation - the time of acute dogmatic discussions that had significant consequences for the organizational structure of the Christian institutional church. Book 1 considers the formation of the Church as a public institution, the organizational basis of which is gradually aware and theological decorated religious truths, determining the meaning of the Christian creed and determined the institutional structure of the church as a universal social system, claiming to unite in their boundaries of the whole populated world, called up to Salvation and God -bearing.
The main question of the period: "What to believe to be saved?"