Catholic Church Through the Ages A History

Name: Catholic Church Through the Ages A History
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ISBN: 9780809142347

ISBN-10: 0809142341

ISBN-13: 9780809142347

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Vidmar

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The Catholic Church through the Ages is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until (and including) the pontificate of John Paul II. The book explains the Church's progress by using Christopher Dawson's division of the Church's history into six distinct "ages," or 350-400 year periods of time, each cycle beginning with great enthusiasm and advancement and ending in decline and loss. Writing with the experience of twenty years of teaching, the author has fashioned an ideal text that combines substance with readability. Undergraduates, graduates, and interested lay people have given the author an idea of what topics should be emphasized. Consequently, he…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Paulist Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



The First Age of the Church (30-330 AD)-The Early Church



Jewish Sources of Christianity



Roman Sources of Christianity



Influence of Jewish and Roman Sources on Christianity



Christian Sources



Paul



Attacks on Christianity



Rival Religions



The Life of the Early Church



The End of the First Age



Recommended Readings



Notes



The Second Age of the Church (330-650 AD)-The Age of the Fathers



The Fathers of the Church



The Papacy



The First Christological Councils



St. Augustine (354-430)



The Veneration of the Saints



The Rise of Monasticism



The End of the Second Age



Recommended Readings



Notes



The Third Age of the Church (650-1000)-The Dark Ages



Islam



The Byzantine Church and the Eastern Schism



The Barbarians



The Papacy (955-1057)



The End of the Third Age



Recommended Readings



Notes



The Fourth Age of the Church (1000-1450)-The Middle Ages



The Crusades



The New Religious Orders



Scholasticism



Medieval Mysticism



The Medieval Inquisition



The Spanish Inquisition



Innocent III



The Decline of the Papacy



The End of the Fourth Age



Recommended Readings



Notes



The Fifth Age of the Church (1450-1789)-Protestant and Catholic Reformations



The Renaissance



The Reformation on the Continent



The English Reformation



The Reformation in Scotland



Protestantism



The Catholic Response



The Missions (1500-1800)



The End of the Fifth Age



Chronology of the Reformation



Recommended Readings



Notes



The Sixth Age of the Church (1789-Present)-The Modern Age



The Enlightenment or the Age of Reason



The French Revolution



The Aftermath of Revolution



The Catholic Church in the United States



Social Catholicism



The Revival of the Missions (1800-2000)



War and Dictatorship



Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church



Post-World War II Catholicism



The End of the Sixth Age



Recommended Readings



Notes


Chronological List of the Popes


A Select Bibliography


Index