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
• 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