Ye are the body
Subtitle: a people's history of the church
Publisher: Holy Cross Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: West Park, N. Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Church history
Notes: Bibliography: p. 368-370.
Table of contents: title: I. The origin of the Christian church; title: A. What is the church?; title: B. The founding of the church; title: 1. The pre-Christian church; title: 2. The Jewish rejection of Christ; title: 3. The call and training of the apostles; title: 4. The equipment of the apostles; title: II. The apostolic church; title: A. The Jewish Christian church; title: 1. The church at Jerusalem; title: 2. The martyrdom of St. Stephen; title: 3. Missions from Jerusalem; title: 4. The Palestinian Jewish church; title: B. The mission of the Gentiles; title: 1. The conversion of St. Paul; title: 2. The apostolic council, c. 50 A.D.; title: 3. St. Paul the missionary; title: 4. The end of the apostolic age; title: III. The age of persecution; title: A. The persecutions; title: 1. The causes of the persecutions; title: 2. The great persecutions; title: 3. The spirit of martyrdom; title: 4. The end of the persecutions; title: B. The achievements of the early church; title: 1. The early Eucharist; title: 2. The threefold ministry; title: 3. The New Testament; title: 4. Discipline; title: 5. The beginnings of Monasticism; title: C. The beginnings of theology; title: 1. Gnosticism; title: 2. The Western fathers; title: 3. The Eastern fathers; title: 4. The doctrine of the trinity; title: IV. The age of the councils; title: A. Arianism; title: 1. Arius and his teaching; title: 2. The council of Nicaea I, 325 A.D.; title: 3. The revival of Arianism; title: 4. St. Athanasius against the world; title: 5. The triumph of the Nicene faith; title: B. The church in the West; title: 1. St. Martin of Tours (319-397); title: 2. St. Ambrose (340-397) and St. Augustine (354-430); title: 3. Pelagianism; title: C. The church in the east; title: 1. St. Jerome (340-420) and St. John Chrysostom (347-407); title: 2. Nestorianism; title: 3. Monophysitism; title: 4. Caesaro-papalism; title: V. The Dark Ages; title: A. The Western church; title: 1. The rise of the papacy; title: 2. St. Benedict (480-543); title: St. Gregory the Great (540-604); title: 4. Charlemagne; title: B. The Eastern church; title: 1. Mohammedanism; title: 2. The last two general councils; title: 3. The Great Schism, 1054; title: 4. The Slavonic church; title: C. The end of the Dark Ages; title: 1. The conversion of northern Europe; title: 2. The Cluny reforms; title: 3. Investiture; title: 4. The Crusades; title: VI. The church in the British Isles; title: A. The British church; title: B. The Celtic church; title: C. The Anglo-Saxon church; title: 1. The conversion of England; title: 2. The organization of the Anglo-Saxon church; title: 3. The decline of the Anglo-Saxon church; title: D. The Norman church; title: 1. Its establishment; title: 2. The foundation of English liberties; title: VII. The medieval church; title: A. The Awakening; title: 1. The new religious orders; title: 2. The revival of theology; title: 3. St. Francis of Assisi (1182? -1226); title: 4. The Friars; title: B. The flowering of the Middle Ages; title: 1. The papacy at its height; title: 2. St. Louis IX of France (1214-1270); title: 3. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274); title: 4. Critique of the thirteenth century; title: C. The decline of the Middle Ages; title: 1. The "Babylonian captivity" of the papacy (1305-1377); title: 2. The papal schism; title: 3. The decay of the church; title: 4. The pre-Reformers; title: VIII. The Reformation; title: A. Background of the Reformation; title: 1. The rise of nationalism; title: 2. The Renaissance; title: 3. The rise of the middle class; title: 4. Individualism; title: B. The Reformers; title: 1. The humanists; title: 2. Martin Luther (1483-1546); title: 3. The radicals; title: 4. John Calvin (1509-1564); title: C. The counter-Reformation; title: 1. The revival of the Roman church; title: 2. Authoritarianism; title: 3. The spiritual and priestly life; title: 4. Roman Catholicism; title: IX. The church divided; title: A. The wars of religion; title: 1. The struggle in Germany; title: 2. The Thirty years' war (1618-1648); title: 3. The Huguenots; title: 4. European settlements; title: B. Further developments; title: 1. The age of Louis XIV; title: 2. The Roman Catholic church; title: 3. Lutherans and Calvinists; title: 4. Protestantism; title: C. The Orthodox churches; title: X. The church of England; title: A. The English Reformation; title: 1. Henry VIII's quarrel with the pope; title: 2. Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556); title: 3. Mary Tudor (1516-1558); title: 4. Elizabeth I (1533-1603); title: B. The struggle in England; title: 1. James I (1566-1625); title: 2. William Laud (1573-1645); title: 3. The commonwealth and protectorate; title: 4. The restoration; title: C. Developments in England; title: 1. The Latitudinarians; title: 2. The Methodists; title: 3. The Tractarians; title: 4. The Catholic revival; title: D. Anglicanism; title: 1. The Anglican communion; title: 2. Apostolic succession; title: 3. The prayer book; title: 4. Catholicity; title: XI. The church in America; title: A. Roman Catholicism; title: B. Protestantism; title: C. The Episcopal church; title: 1. Anglican settlements; title: 2. The colonial church; title: 3. Reconstruction; title: 4. Expansion; title: 5. Churchmanship; title: XII. The dawn of a new age.