The Catholic Church Through the Ages: A HistoryPaulist Press, 2005 - 360 pages 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 has given generous space to monsaticism, the Crusades, medieval theology, the Inquisition, Reformation, French Revolution, the nineteenth century, and the Church in the United States. As a supplement to each chapter, the author has included an annotated list of reading and audio-visual materials. |
Table des matières
The Early Church | 1 |
B Roman Sources of Christianity | 5 |
C Influence of Jewish and Roman Sources on Christianity | 7 |
D Christian Sources | 9 |
E Paul | 20 |
F Attacks on Christianity | 25 |
G Rival Religions | 31 |
H The Life of the Early Church | 36 |
F The Spanish Inquisition | 150 |
G Innocent III | 152 |
H The Decline of the Papacy | 154 |
I The End of the Fourth Age | 162 |
K Notes | 163 |
Protestant and Catholic Reformations | 165 |
B The Reformation on the Continent | 177 |
C The English Reformation | 204 |
I The End of the First Age | 42 |
J Recommended Readings | 43 |
K Notes | 44 |
The Age of the Fathers | 46 |
B The Papacy | 51 |
C The First Christological Councils | 55 |
D St Augustine 354430 | 64 |
E The Veneration of the Saints | 72 |
F The Rise of Monasticism | 76 |
G The End of the Second Age | 84 |
H Recommended Readings | 85 |
I Notes | 86 |
The Dark Ages | 88 |
A Islam | 90 |
B The Byzantine Church and the Eastern Schism | 96 |
C The Barbarians | 104 |
D The Papacy 9551057 | 111 |
E The End of the Third Age | 115 |
F Recommended Readings | 117 |
The Middle Ages | 119 |
B The New Religious Orders | 132 |
C Scholasticism | 138 |
D Medieval Mysticism | 141 |
E The Medieval Inquisition | 142 |
D The Reformation in Scotland | 227 |
E Protestantism | 231 |
F The Catholic Response | 233 |
G The Missions 15001800 | 241 |
H The End of the Fifth Age | 252 |
J Recommended Readings | 254 |
K Notes | 255 |
The Modern Age | 258 |
B The French Revolution | 266 |
C The Aftermath of Revolution | 276 |
D The Catholic Church in the United States | 289 |
E Social Catholicism | 301 |
F The Revival of the Missions 18002000 | 307 |
G War and Dictatorship | 310 |
H Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church | 316 |
I PostWorld War II Catholicism | 334 |
J The End of the Sixth Age | 340 |
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L Notes | 343 |
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE POPES | 346 |
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