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Tables of Contents for Church History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About The Series
vii
Certification Standards: National Resources for Church Ministry
viii
Introduction: Why Church History?
x
Faith in Formation
1
19
Paul's Dilemma: Christians and Jews in the First Century
2
2
Insiders and Outsiders: Was the Early Church ``Catholic''?
4
8
Rome Against Christians: The Story of Perpetua
12
6
Drawing the Threads Together: The Birth of the Catholic Church
18
1
For Reflection
19
1
Faith Established
20
19
Toleration and Its Discontents
21
3
The Search for Purity in a ``Lukewarm'' Church
24
6
Establishment and Collapse: 364--476 A.D.
30
6
The Church at the End of the Empire
36
2
For Reflection
38
1
The Faith of Christendom
39
20
The Birth of the Medieval World (500--700): Gregory of Tours and Gregory the Great
40
7
The ``Carolingian Renaissance'' and the Ideal of Christendom (800--1000)
47
2
The Gregorian Reform (1050--1120): The Pope as Abbot to the World
49
6
The High Middle Ages (1100--1300): The Flowering of Religious Life and the Birth of Scholasticism
55
3
For Reflection
58
1
Faith Divided
59
21
Papal Authority in Crisis: The Avignon Popes and the Great Papal Schism
60
3
Restoration or Reform? Papal Indulgence and Lay Piety
63
10
The Varieties of Reform
73
6
For Reflection
79
1
Faith in a New World
80
15
St. Ignatius and the Jesuit ``Way of Proceeding''
81
9
The World at War: Europe in the Seventeenth Century
90
2
From Momentum to Inertia: The Catholic Church on the Eve of Revolution
92
2
For Reflection
94
1
Faith in an Age of Revolutions
95
17
The Church and the Scientific Revolution
96
1
Shots Heard 'Round the World: Revolution in America and France
97
5
Pius IX: Reform and Reaction
102
3
America and Americanism
105
3
The Early Twentieth Century: Catholic Modernism and the Stirrings of Change
108
1
American Catholicism at Mid-Century
109
2
For Reflection
111
1
Conclusion: Faith Handed on to the third Millennium
112
9
Bibliography
121
2
Acknowledgments
123
1
About the Author
124
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