The History of the ChurchLIT Verlag Münster, 2002 - 307 páginas The aim of this book is as modest as it is ambitious. It sees itself both as a manual of the history of the church, and as an essay. The manual is of service to the students of theology and at the same time lays open to them the problems linked to the subject of their studies. The first and foremost aim of the book however is to offer an overall view of the 2000 years of the history of the Catholic Church and the other Christian denominations. It is the history of hights and failures, of incidents an devents as reactions to the different challanges to the faith and the church. It is the story of breakdowns leading to new starts, of conversions and continous building up, and this gives the story ist particular rhythm, against which the believer always tries to separate the wheat from the chaff, as a means to discover the finger of God, who writes in the sand of history. From that point of view the book is an essay in the true sense of the word. |
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The Church and the Challenge of the Barbarians | 51 |
The Church and the Challenge of Feudalism | 59 |
The Church and the Challenge of Secular Thought | 69 |
The Church and the Challenge of the Renaissance | 83 |
The Church and the Challenge of the Reformation | 95 |
The Church and the Challenge of the Revolutions | 135 |
The Church and the Challenge of Ideologies | 145 |
The Church and the Challenge of Cultures | 165 |
The Eastern Churches | 187 |
Forms of Protestantism | 215 |
Can Church History be Interpreted Theologically? | 253 |
Select Bibliography | 265 |
Index | 277 |
The Church and the Challenge of Absolutism | 109 |
The Church and the Challenge of the Enlightenment | 123 |
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