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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- 1. ‘Upon This Rock’ C. AD 33-461
- I. From Jerusalem to Rome
- II. The Bishops of Rome
- III. The Age of Constantine
- IV. The Birth of Papal Rome
- 2. Between Two Empires 461-1000
- I. Under Gothic Kings
- II. The Age of Gregory the Great
- III. The Byzantine Captivity of the Papacy
- IV. Empires of the West
- 3. Set Above Nations 1000—1447
- I. The Era of Papal Reform
- II. From Papal Reform to Papal Monarchy
- III. The Pinnacle of Papal Power
- IV. Exile and Schism
- 4. Protest and Division 1477—1774
- I. The Renaissance Popes
- II. The Crisis of Christendom
- III. The Counter-Reformation
- IV. The Popes in an Age of Absolutism
- 5. The Pope and the People 1774—1903
- I. The Church and the Revolution
- II. From Recovery to Reaction
- III. Pio Nono: The Triumph of Ultramontanism
- IV. Ultramontanism with a Liberal Face: The Reign of Leo XIII
- 6. The Oracles op God 1903-1997
- I. The Age of Intransigence
- II. The Attack on Modernism
- III. The Age of the Dictators
- IV. The Age of Vatican II
- V. Papa Wojtyla
- VI. The Way We Live Now
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index