A Concise History of the Catholic Church

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition; Preface to the Image Edition; Introduction; Part One The Church Triumphs Over Paganism A.D. 30-600 : 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; Part Two The making of Christendom A.D. 600-1300 : 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; Part Three The unmaking of Christendom A.D. 1300-1650: The Decline of the Papal Monarchy; The Papacy Survives the Great Schism and Puts Down Conciliarism; The Church Fails to Reform Itself in Time; Luther Splits Christeondom; Calvin Makes Protestantism and International Movement; The Catholic Church Recovers Its Spiritual Elan; Part Four The Church In A State of Siege A.D. 1650-1891 : 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 Ultramontanisum to a Grand Triumph at Vatican I; Part Five The State of Siege Is Slowly Lifted A.D. 1891 - 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 Councill; The Sound and Fury of Renewal; the Bark of Peter in Stormy Seas (1976-1989); Annotated Bibliography; Index