Short History of the Catholic Church

by J. Derek Holmes, Bernard Bickers

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780860123088
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/05/2002
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

J. Derek Holmes was formerly Lecture in Church History at Ushaw College, Durham.

Bernard W. Bickers was ordained in 1973. After advanced studies at Cambridge University he went to Ushaw as Lecturer in Church History.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

There is no other book ... which conveys so much information in so limited a space, or which can be relied upon with more confidence.” —E.E.Y. Hales, The Tablet

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