Norman Tanner

New Short History of the Catholic Church

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Produktbeschreibung

____________ 'A useful book of reference by the master of the history of the councils of the Church... There is enormous value in a short, reliable, and careful study of a sequence of events that may have unfamiliar joinings and passageways to modern believers...' - Catholic Historical Review 'A short, readable and informed survey of church history.' - The Church of England Newspaper 'A rich foundation for Catholic understanding and witness.' - Catholic San Francisco ____________ A one-volume history of the Christian people from Pentecost to the present day, with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD 2000 it seems appropriate and necessary to have a new short history of the first two millennia of the Christian era. In the last half century there has been a massive amount of research into Church history, published in learned articles and in multi-volume works. Full notice is taken of these recent scholarly initiatives in writing this short account, which is also eminently readable. In each section there is a balance between the institutional and the more directly religious dimensions of the Church - here are some of the elements: bishops, canon law, charity, councils crusades, devotions, heresies, laity, liturgy, martyrs, missionaries, parishes, pilgrimages, popes, prayer, priesthood, religious orders, sacraments, schools, theologians, universities and the vita consacrata. The scope is wide; the pace of the narrative is attractive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781472909886
• ISBN-10: 1472909887
• Artikelnr.: 42381895

Autorenporträt

Dr Norman Tanner is a Jesuit priest and now Professor of Church History at The Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes and Abbreviations Glossary Map: The Mediterranean
World Introduction 1. Pentecost to the Fourth Century 2. Early Middle Ages:
400 to 1054 3. Central and Late Middle Ages 4. Early Modern Catholicism:
1500 to 1800 5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Conclusion Appendix:
List of Ecumenical Councils Bibliography Index