A short history of the Catholic church / J. Derek Holmes and B.W. Bickers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, J. Derek.

Contributor:

Bickers, Bernard W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history.

Catholic Church--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

Millennium ed. / with a postscript by Peter Hebblethwaite and a new concluding chapter by Peter Doyle.

Place of Publication:

London : Burns & Oates, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Authors' preface; Authors' acknowledgements; Chapter 1. The origins in early history of the Christian Church to 461; Chapter 2. The development of the Western Church and its final separation from the East, 461-1198; Chapter 3. Papalism and conciliarism, 1198-1455; Chapter 4. The Protestant Reformation and the progress of Catholic reform, 1455-1648; Chapter 5. The Age of Rationalism and Absolutism, 1648-1789; Chapter 6. The Church, Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1914; Chapter 7. The Church and the modern world, 1914-1978; Postscript; The Church in the post-modern world

Table of major events in Church historyList of popes and their reigns; Notes on further reading; Index

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611784270

9781281784278

1281784273

9780826432797

0826432794

OCLC:

319493634