Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The debt of Christian education to old testament theology and pedagogy -- Greek philosophy and its impact on Christian thought -- Rome versus Jesus: new testament principle of education -- Christian education in the early church -- Augustine to Aquinas: medieval education -- Renaissance man and cultural renewal -- Reformation dawn and the light of Christian education -- Comenius and his contemporaries -- Pietism and Moravians -- Enlightened Europe in post-reformation times -- New England and the Puritans -- Denominationalism and secularization -- Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann -- Horace Bushnell and the Sunday school movement - Education American style: John Dewey and George Albert Coe -- Existentialism and Catholicism -- Psychologism and Evangelism -- Evangelical education in the last quarter of the twentieth century --