Catholic Church Through the Ages
Catholic Church Through the Ages The Catholic Church through the Ages, now in its second edition, is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until (and including)…
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Catholic Church Through the Ages
The Catholic Church through the Ages, now in its second edition, is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until (and including) the pontificate of Pope Francis. Writing with the experience of thirty years of teaching, the author has fashioned an ideal text that combines substance with readability. The book explains the Church's progress by using Christopher Dawson's division of the Church's history into six distinct "ages," or 350-400 year periods of time, each cycle beginning with great enthusiasm and advancement and ending in decline and loss.
As a result, he has emphasized such areas monasticism, the Crusades, medieval theology, the Inquisition, Reformation, French Revolution, the nineteenth century, and the Church in the Undergraduates, graduates, and interested lay people have given the author an idea of what topics should be emphasized.