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).

Benduhui shilüe 本篤會史略 / Lou Tseng-Tsiang, Pierre-Célestin (Lu Zhengxiang 陸徵祥)

Han'guk Ch'ŏnju kyohoesa 한국 천주교 회사 = Korean Catholic history = History of the Catholic Church in Korea / Han'guk Kyohoesa Yŏn'guso 韓國敎會史硏究所 / 한국 교회사 연구소, Kim Sŏng-t'ae 김성태 [Kim Seongtae], et al.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

제 1부. 가톨릭 교회 와 아시아 선교 -- 제 2부. 조선 후기 서학의 수용과 천주교회의 설립 -- 제 3부. 시련 속의 교회 -- 제 4부. 선교 의 자유 와 교회 의 성장 -- 제 5부. 일제 강점기 의 교회.

Secularization, Counter-secularization and Desecularization: A Commentary on Peter Berger' s Ideas of the Religious Revival and Political Ethics -- Christian Theology of Religious Dialogue: Its Trinity Theology and the Foundation of Christology -- Christianity and the Reconstruction of Publicity -- From Natural Theology to Theology of Nature -- Towards A Spiritual Pluralism -- Cultural Disarmament: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Peace of Raimon Paiiikkar -- The Pauline Collection: An Initiative for the Communion among the Churches -- Some Methodological Problems of the Study of Church Fathers -- The Exegetical Way of Philo and Its Tradition -- Celsus: Christianity and Its Characteristics of Faith -- Free Will, Original Sin and God' s Grace: On the Controversy of Pelagius and Its Influence -- The Orthodox of Classical Christian Theology: on the theological debate before and after Councils of Nicaea -- The Discovery of Nag Hammadi and its Importance -- On Boethius -- Some Prayer-books in the Early Japanese Jesuits: the principle and practice of transliteration -- The 270 Years' History of Mapeng, a Catholic Village in Qu County, Zhejiang Province, with an Appendix of Ni Rufan's "Church History of Zhejiang Qushu's Mapeng" (published in Wocun Magazine, Vol., 3 No. 4, 1935) -- Briefings of Institutes, libraries and Materials for the Study of Christianity Study and Chinese Culture: -- (1) Research on China in the Archives of the Society of Jesus in Rome (with Chinese translation) -- (2) Chinese Books, Documents and Artifacts at the Ambrosiana in Milan (With Chinese translation) -- (3) An Introduction of It Petit Massager de Ning-Po (1911-1940) -- (4) An Introduction of Tianxuechuhan and Documents of Catholic Mission to the East -- (5) An Introduction of Documents in Xujiahui Library about Catholicism in Ming and Qing Dynasties -- (6) An Introduction of Annals of Chinese Christian Church (1914-1936) -- (7) An Introduction of The Chinese Recorder (1867-1941) -- (8) An Introduction of Chinese and Protestant Missions: a Collection of Their earliest missionary Works in Chinese and Western Books in China Published up to 1850.