J. Derek Holmes, Bernard Bickers

Short History of the Catholic Church (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a revised edition of a one-volume history of the Roman Catholic church.

It includes a final chapter giving an impressionistic account of some of the issues facing the Church as it nears the third millennium of its existence.

It also covers the Christian history of the first two millennia, from the origins of the Church in New Testament times through to the year 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826432797
• Artikelnr.: 40613239

Autorenporträt

J. Derek Holmes was formerly Lecture in Church History at Ushaw College, Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Authors' Preface
Authors' Acknowledgements
1 The origins in early history of the Christian Church to 461
2 The development of the Western Church and it's final separation from the
East, 461-1198
3 Papalism and conciliarism , 1198-1455
4 The Protestant Reformation and the progress of Catholic reform, 1455-1648
5 The Age of Rationalism and Absolutism
6 The Church, Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1914
7 The Church and the modern world, 1914-1978
Postscript by Peter Hebblethwaite
The Church in the post-modern world by Peter Doyle
Table of major events in Church history
List of popes in their reigns
Notes on further reading
Index