A History of the Christian Tradition: From the Reformation to the Present

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 the Orthodox churches and the story of the Jews in Christian Europe. The history concludes with renewal movements, culminating in the Second Vatican Council and the pontificate of Pope John Paul II.