| Author | Bokenkotter, Thomas S., 1924-2021 |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Image Books |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library [ASCC] |
| Edition | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Language | English |
| Type | Book |
| Shelf | Stacks [ASCC] |
| Call Number | BX945.2.B64 1990 |
| Description | x, 498 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note | A concise history of the Catholic Church / Thomas Bokenkotter. Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-475) and index. Jesus -- The church spreads across the empire -- A church with authority -- Constantine favors the christians and inaugurates a new era of church history -- Worship, faith, and life in the early church -- The final victory over paganism -- Jerome -- Augustine -- Pope Leo wins a great victory for papal primacy at Chalcedon -- The popes and Franks join forces to create a new unity: christendom -- Hildebrand's revolution makes the popes supreme in christendom -- The papal monarchy at its zenith -- The eastern schism -- Church and society in western christendom -- The aristotelian invasion -- The decline of the papal monarchy -- The papacy survives the great schism and puts down conciliarism -- The church falls to reform itself in time -- Luther splits christendom -- Calvin makes protestantism an international movement -- The Catholic Church recovers its spiritual elan -- The challenge of the new thought -- The church torn by internal strife: Jansenism and Gallicanism -- The French Revolution shatters the Church of the Old Order -- Pius IX says "no" to the liberal catholics -- The syllabus of errors squelches the liberal catholics -- Pio Nono carries ultramontanism to a grand triumph at Vatican I -- Social catholicism and christian democracy -- The modernist debacle -- The church moves out to the whole world -- The american church -- The popes of the twentieth century -- The resurgent liberal catholics ring down the curtain on the post-trent church at the second vatican council -- The sound and fury of renewal -- The bark of peter in stormy seas (1976-1989).
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| ISBN | 0385411472 ; 9780385411479 |
| LCCN | 90034546 |
