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The Catholic Church : a brief popular history

Print Book, English, 2008
Saint Mary's Press, Winona, MN, 2008
History
337 pages ; 23 cm
9780884899679, 0884899675
180989492
1. History and the church
2. Laying the foundation : Jesus and his followers
3. Under attack : persecution in the early church
4. New understandings : Constantine, councils, and creeds
5. The life and times of a seeker : Augustine of Hippo
6. Missionaries, artists, and servants of God : monks and nuns in the early Middle Ages
7. Across a great divide : the eastern church
8. Shaking things up : the church reforms inside and out
9. New ideas, new problems : the middle of the Middle Ages
10. Bringing it all together : Thomas Aquinas and new ways of thinking
11. Changing the rules : re-forming Christianity
12. Discoveries near and far : new lands, new science, and new ways of serving
13. New challenges to ancient traditions : Vatican I and the modern era
14. The ancient faith gets a modern makeover : Vatican II
15. The road that lies ahead : the church in the third millennium