A History of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive overview of the institutional history and the theological issues involved in the development of Christianity from its roots in the Jewish religion through the sixteenth century Reformation. In 25 chapters the authors survey the principal movements that shaped and nurtured Christian consciousness. They show how the first, small communities developed into an institutional Church, and they trace the changing face of the Church through the firs...

Explore the history of Catholicism from the first century to the present. The Shaping of Christianity closely examines the first four centuries of “the Christian movement” as it developed into a major world religion. The two-volume A History of the Christian Tradition surveys the entire history of Christianity, from its Jewish origins all the way through the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. And C. Colt Anderson’s The Great Catholic Reformers highlights the careers of several remarkable men and women who have contributed to the purification and renewal of the Bride of Christ from Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century to Dorothy Day in our own time. Rich with all the poignancy of human drama, The Paulist Press Church History Collection offers an in-depth look at Catholicism’s origin, growth, development, and change throughout the last two thousand years.

This volume takes you through the momentous events of the post-Reformation Christian world to the dawning of the ecumenical movement in the late twentieth century. Beginning with an overview of Protestant Europe, Thomas McGonigle and James F. Quigley examine the missionary ventures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the establishment of churches in the New World, and the struggles between rationalism and faith during the Enlightenment and beyond. Notice is also given to developments in ...

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