Periods of Church History   1-325 AD  Beginnings 325-600  Acceptance and Conquest 600-1500  Christian Society 1500-1650  Reform 1650-1789  Reason, Revival and Revolution 1789-1914  Cities and Empires 1914-present  Ideology, Anxiety and Liberation   -Eerdman’s Church History       1-100  AD  Apostolic Christianity   100-325  Ante-Nicene Christianity    311-600  Nicene and Post Nicene Christianity   590-1073  Mediaeval Christianity   1049-1517  Middle Ages   German Reformation  Modern Christianity    Swiss Reformation  Modern Christianity   -Church Historian Schaff       5 BC-590 AD  Ancient Church   Spread of Christianity in the empire  30-100 AD   Struggle of Old Catholic Church for survival  100-313   Supremacy of Old Catholic Church  313-590   590-1517  Medieval Church   Rise of Empire and Latin speaking Christianity   590-800   Ebb and Flow in Church and State Relations        800-1054   Supremacy of the Papacy       1054-1305    Medieval Sunset       1305-1517   1517-present  Modern Church   Reformation and Counter Reformation       1517-1648   Rationalism, Revivalism, Denominationalism   1648-1789   Revivalism, Missions, Modernism        1789-1914   Church and Society in Tension        1914-now   -Cairns in his Church History Book    30-65  The Age of Jesus and the Apostles  70-303  The Age of Early Christianity   312-563  The Age of the Christian Empire   590-1516  The Christian Middle Ages   1517-1648  The Age of The Reformation   1649-1781  The Age of Reason and Revival   1789-1912  The Age of Progress   1914-2000  The Age of Ideologies   -Christian History Magazine Issue 28       70-170            Ephesus                Rev. 2:1-7               Backslidden Church  170-312          Smyrna                   Rev. 2:8-11            Persecuted Church   313-606          Pergamos             Rev. 2:12-17          Licentious Church   606-1517       Thyatira                  Rev. 2:18-20          Lax Church   1517-1750     Sardis                    Rev. 3:1-6              Dead Church   1750-1900      Philadelphia         Rev. 3:7-13            Favored Church   1900-Rapture  Laodicea             Rev. 3:14-22         Lukewarm Church   -Clarence Larkin, 1918, “Dispensational Truth”