A Concise History of the Catholic Church (Revised Edition)Crown Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 624 pages Expanded and updated for the new millennium. Covering the life of Christ, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, and everything in between, A Concise History of the Catholic Church has been one of the bestselling religious histories of the past two decades and a mainstay for scholars, students, and others looking for a definitive, accessible history of Catholicism. With a clarity that will appeal to any reader, Thomas Bokenkotter divides his study into five parts that correspond to the major historical and epochal developments in Catholicism. His authoritative, thorough approach takes readers from the Church’s triumph over paganism, through "the sound and fury of renewal," to a new section devoted to such topics as dissent and current developments in the ecumenical movement. Informative illustrations throughout the book, new to this edition, enrich the reader's experience, and the addition of a wide-ranging bibliography increases its value as a sourcebook. |
Contents
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Constantine Favors the Christians and Inaugurates | 37 |
Worship Faith and Life in the Early Church | 43 |
The Final Victory over Paganism | 57 |
Jerome | 66 |
Augustine | 75 |
The Challenge of the New Thought | 259 |
Jansenism and Gallicanism | 269 |
The French Revolution Shatters the Church of the Old Order | 280 |
Pius IX Says No to the Liberal Catholics | 294 |
The Syllabus of Errors Squelches the Liberal Catholics | 309 |
Pio Nono Carries Ultramontanism to a Grand Triumph at Vatican I | 317 |
PART FIVE THE STATE OF SIEGE IS SLOWLY LIFTED A D 1891 | 329 |
Social Catholicism and Christian Democracy | 331 |
Hildebrands Revolution Makes the Popes Supreme in Christendom | 110 |
The Papal Monarchy at Its Zenith | 121 |
The Eastern Schism | 134 |
Church and Society in Western Christendom | 142 |
The Aristotelian Invasion | 158 |
PART THREE THE UNMAKING OF CHRISTENDOM A D 13001650 | 171 |
The Decline of the Papal Monarchy | 173 |
The Papacy Survives the Great Schism and Puts Down Conciliarism | 185 |
The Church Fails to Reform Itself in Time | 197 |
Luther Splits Christendom | 208 |
Calvin Makes Protestantism an International Movement | 225 |
The Catholic Church Recovers Its Spiritual Élan | 239 |
PART FOUR THE CHURCH IN A STATE OF SIEGE A D 16501891 | 257 |
The Modernist Debacle | 345 |
The Church Moves Out to the Whole World | 355 |
The American Church | 365 |
The Popes of the Twentieth Century | 383 |
The Resurgent Liberal Catholics Ring Down the Curtain | 396 |
The Sound and Fury of Renewal | 409 |
The Bark of Peter in Stormy Seas 19761989 | 429 |
On the Threshold of the Third Millennium | 468 |
The Death of Pope John Paul II and the Future | 530 |
Pope Leo I Wins a Great Victory for Papal Primacy at Chalcedon | 542 |
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