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Author Holmes, J. Derek.

Title A short history of the Catholic church / J. Derek Holmes and B.W. Bickers
Edition Millennium ed. / with a postscript by Peter Hebblethwaite and a new concluding chapter by Peter Doyle
Published London : Burns & Oates, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
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
Summary 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. It also covers the Christian history of the first two millennia, from the origins of the Church in New Testament times through to the year 2000.>
Notes Previous edition: 1992
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- History.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Church history.
church history.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Church history
Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bickers, Bernard W.
ISBN 9780826432797
0826432794
0860123081
9780860123088