History of the Catholic Church: from the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium

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Автор: James Hitchcock

Название: History of the Catholic Church: from the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium

Язык: English

Издательство: San Francisco: Ignatius Press

Год: 2012

Формат: pdf

Размер: 12,2 mb

Страниц: 584

The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning with the first Christians and continuing in our present day, the Church has been planted in every nation on earth.

The Catholic Church claims Jesus Christ himself as her founder, and in spite of heresy from within and hostility from without, she remains in the twenty-first century the steadfast guardian of belief in his life, death, and resurrection. The teachings and redemptive works of Jesus as told in the Gospels are expressed by the Church in a coherent and consistent body of doctrine, the likes of which cannot be found in any other Christian body.

The history of the Catholic Church is long, complicated, and fascinating, and in this book it is expertly and ably told by historian James Hitchcock. As in the parable of Christ about the weeds that were sown in a field of wheat, evil and good have grown together in the Church from the start, as Hitchcock honestly records. He brings before us the many characters--some noble, some notorious--who have left an indelible mark on the Church, while never losing sight of the saints, who have given living testimony to the salvific power of Christ in every age.

This ambitious work is comprehensive in its scope and in incisive in its understanding, a valuable addition to any school or home library.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT S

INTRODUCTION

1. BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM

2. THE SEED OF CHRISTIANS

3. THE TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS.

4. HOLY WISDOM

5. LIGHT IN DARKNESS

6. CHRISTENDOM

7. EAST AND WEST

8. DECLINE AND REBIRTH

9. REFORM AND COUNTER-REFORM

10. REASON AND REVOLUTION

11. MODERNITY

12. TO THE END OF THE EARTH

13. THE NEW NATIONS

14. JOY AND HOPE. GRIEF .AND ANGUISH

CONCLUSION

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING