A Short history of the Catholic Church /

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. Full description

Main Author: Holmes, J. Derek.
Other Authors: Bickers, Bernard W.
Published: London, UK : Burns & Oates, 2002
Edition: Millennium ed. /? with a postscript by Peter Hebblethwaite and a new concluding chapter by Peter Doyle.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. origins in early history of the Christian Church to 461
  • Ch. 2. development of the Western Church and its final separation from the East, 461-1198
  • Ch. 3. Papalism and conciliarism, 1198-1455
  • Ch. 4. Protestant Reformation and the progress of Catholic reform, 1455-1648
  • Ch. 5. Age of Rationalism and Absolutism, 1648-1789
  • Ch. 6. Church, Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1914
  • Ch. 7. Church and the modern world, 1914-1978
  • Postscript / Peter Hebblethwaite
  • Church in the post-modern world / Peter Doyle
  • Table of major events in Church history
  • List of popes and their reigns.

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