History of the Church

Volume 1: The World In Which The Church Was Founded

Philip E. Hughes

• Publisher: Sheed & Ward
• Year: 1948
• Print ISBN: 9780722079812
• eBook ISBN: 9780567481702
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Theology

This volume covers one of the most critical - and one of the most interesting - periods in the history of the Church. It is, from the beginning, a period of revolt - the revolts of thinkers and 'mystics', of princes and kings, of bishops and monks, of capitalist bourgeois and proletarian workers. It is the story of the Templars, of the 'Avignon captivity' and the Great Schism of the West, of the councils of Pisa and Contance and Basel, of the Renaissance and the rise of the Ottoman Turks. It is the story, too, of philosophers (Duns Scotus and Ockham), theologians (Gerson, Nicolas of Cusa, and Cajetan) m and humanists (More, Machiavelli, and Erasmus). Popes of the period include Boniface VIII, 'Benedict XIII', Nicholas V, and Pius II, as well as the notorious Borgia, della Rovere, and Medici pontiffs. And, in these 250 years which culminated in the Reformation, come Wicklif, John Hus, and Martin Luther - and Catherine of Sienna, Vincent Ferrer, and Antonius of Florence.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER I. THE WORLD IN WHICH THE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED
• CHAPTER II. THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH
• CHAPTER III. THE FIRST CONTACTS WITH THE PAGAN RELIGIOUS WORLD
• CHAPTER IV. THE CRISES OF THE THIRD CENTURY
• CHAPTER V. THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
• CHAPTER VI. THE CHURCH AND THE PAGAN ROMAN EMPIRE
• CHAPTER VII. THE ARIANS. 318–359
• CHAPTER VIII. THE CATHOLIC RESTORATION. 359–382
• CHAPTER IX. ROME AND THE CATHOLIC EAST. 381–453
• CHAPTER X. THE TRADITIONAL FAITH AND THE IMPERIAL POLICY. 452–711
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• APPENDIX
• INDEX