The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times
No nation, institution, empire or dynasty has helped shape the world more than the Catholic Church. Armies have marched upon one another. Kings have risen and fallen. Ideological and political movements have taken hold of entire continents. Diseases and plagues have ravished millions.

And through it all, Holy Mother Church has endured, standing as the one source of light in a world so often covered by shadows.

In this thrilling narrative, Phillip Campbell, author of the best-selling Story of Civilization series, takes children on a journey through Church history, beginning at Pentecost when Peter and the other apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and preached in the streets of Jerusalem, all the way through the pontificate of John Paul II and into modern times. Campbell’s storybook style brings the narrative to life for young readers, taking them back in time and awakening a love and appreciation for history.

Children will discover:
  • The triumphs and struggles of the early Church
  • The heroic stories of the martyrs
  • An army of saints who witnessed to Christ, including Benedict, Augustine, Francis, Dominic, Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Siena, Thomas More, The Little Flower, Maximilian Kolbe, and more.
  • Popes who helped shape Church teaching through encyclicals and councils, including Leo XIII, Pius IX, and John Paul II
  • Crusaders who fought for Christendom
  • Marian apparitions like Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima
  • How events like the Protestant Reformation, the Avignon Papacy, and the Second Vatican Council affected the Church and the world. 
Through it all, young readers will see how the Church remained in the world but not of it, surviving wars, heresies, and the rule of tyrants, and keeping her arms spread ever open to welcome wounded souls into the Body of Christ.  
 
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The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times
No nation, institution, empire or dynasty has helped shape the world more than the Catholic Church. Armies have marched upon one another. Kings have risen and fallen. Ideological and political movements have taken hold of entire continents. Diseases and plagues have ravished millions.

And through it all, Holy Mother Church has endured, standing as the one source of light in a world so often covered by shadows.

In this thrilling narrative, Phillip Campbell, author of the best-selling Story of Civilization series, takes children on a journey through Church history, beginning at Pentecost when Peter and the other apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and preached in the streets of Jerusalem, all the way through the pontificate of John Paul II and into modern times. Campbell’s storybook style brings the narrative to life for young readers, taking them back in time and awakening a love and appreciation for history.

Children will discover:
  • The triumphs and struggles of the early Church
  • The heroic stories of the martyrs
  • An army of saints who witnessed to Christ, including Benedict, Augustine, Francis, Dominic, Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Siena, Thomas More, The Little Flower, Maximilian Kolbe, and more.
  • Popes who helped shape Church teaching through encyclicals and councils, including Leo XIII, Pius IX, and John Paul II
  • Crusaders who fought for Christendom
  • Marian apparitions like Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima
  • How events like the Protestant Reformation, the Avignon Papacy, and the Second Vatican Council affected the Church and the world. 
Through it all, young readers will see how the Church remained in the world but not of it, surviving wars, heresies, and the rule of tyrants, and keeping her arms spread ever open to welcome wounded souls into the Body of Christ.  
 
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The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times

The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times

by Phillip Campbell
The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times

The Story of the Church Textbook: From Pentecost to Modern Times

by Phillip Campbell

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Overview

No nation, institution, empire or dynasty has helped shape the world more than the Catholic Church. Armies have marched upon one another. Kings have risen and fallen. Ideological and political movements have taken hold of entire continents. Diseases and plagues have ravished millions.

And through it all, Holy Mother Church has endured, standing as the one source of light in a world so often covered by shadows.

In this thrilling narrative, Phillip Campbell, author of the best-selling Story of Civilization series, takes children on a journey through Church history, beginning at Pentecost when Peter and the other apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and preached in the streets of Jerusalem, all the way through the pontificate of John Paul II and into modern times. Campbell’s storybook style brings the narrative to life for young readers, taking them back in time and awakening a love and appreciation for history.

Children will discover:
  • The triumphs and struggles of the early Church
  • The heroic stories of the martyrs
  • An army of saints who witnessed to Christ, including Benedict, Augustine, Francis, Dominic, Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Siena, Thomas More, The Little Flower, Maximilian Kolbe, and more.
  • Popes who helped shape Church teaching through encyclicals and councils, including Leo XIII, Pius IX, and John Paul II
  • Crusaders who fought for Christendom
  • Marian apparitions like Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima
  • How events like the Protestant Reformation, the Avignon Papacy, and the Second Vatican Council affected the Church and the world. 
Through it all, young readers will see how the Church remained in the world but not of it, surviving wars, heresies, and the rule of tyrants, and keeping her arms spread ever open to welcome wounded souls into the Body of Christ.  
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781505113198
Publisher: TAN Books
Publication date: 07/06/2020
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Phillip Campbell holds a BA in European History from Ave Maria University and a license in secondary education from Madonna University. He teaches history and economics for Homeschool Connections and is the star of the YouTube program "History in a Minute." Mr. Campbell is the author of the Story of Civilization series from TAN Books, Heroes and Heretics of the Reformation (TAN), and has self-published several works through his website, Cruachan Hill Press. His writings have also appeared in such publications as the St. Austin Review and the Distributist Review. Mr. Campbell served as Mayor of his hometown of Howell, Michigan from 2011 to 2015 (the youngest to ever hold the office). He is a regular speaker at homeschool conferences around the United States. Mr. Campbell resides in southern Michigan.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Christ and the Apostles 1

Chapter 2 The Apostolic Age 13

Chapter 3 The Apologists 25

Chapter 4 Roman Persecutions 35

Chapter 5 Dissent and Heresy 45

Chapter 6 Christian Monasticism 53

Chapter 7 The Triumph of the Church 63

Chapter 8 The Benedictines 75

Chapter 9 A Time of Missionaries 85

Chapter 10 Rome and the Byzantines 95

Chapter 11 The Carolingians 103

Chapter 12 Dark Days for the Papacy 115

Chapter 13 The Struggle Against Lay Authority 123

Chapter 14 The Crusading Ideal 135

Chapter 15 Monastic Reform Movements 145

Chapter 16 The Mendicant Orders 157

Chapter 17 Scholasticism 171

Chapter 18 Kings Versus Popes 183

Chapter 19 The Babylonian Captivity 195

Chapter 20 The Great Western Schism 207

Chapter 21 Late Medieval Mysticism 217

Chapter 22 The Outbreak of Protestantism 225

Chapter 23 Trent and the Counter-Re formation 239

Chapter 24 The Jesuits 249

Chapter 25 Missions Abroad 259

Chapter 26 Jansenism and Gallicanism 271

Chapter 27 The Age of Revolution 279

Chapter 28 After the Revolution 287

Chapter 29 The Age of Pius IX 297

Chapter 30 A New Century With New Challenges 305

Chapter 31 Under Fascism and Communism 317

Chapter 32 The Church in the Second World War 327

Chapter 33 The Second Vatican Council 337

Chapter 34 Hopes and Fears 345

Chapter 35 The Pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II 353

Chapter 36 The Church in the Twenty-First Century 363

Index 373

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