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New Short History of the Catholic Church

Norman Tanner

出版	A&C Black, 2011-06-23
主題	Religion / HistoryReligion / Christianity / History
ISBN	086012455X9780860124559
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=weP7d-zfNbcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Here is a one-volume history of the Christian people from Pentecost to the present day, with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD 2000 it seems appropriate and necessary to have a new short history of the first two millennia of the Christian era.
 
In the last half century there has been a massive amount of research into Church history, published in learned articles and in multi-volume works. Full notice is taken of these recent scholarly initiatives in writing this short account, which is also eminently readable.
 
In each section there is a balance between the institutional and the more directly religious dimensions of the Church - here are some of the elements: bishops, canon law, charity, councils crusades, devotions, heresies, laity, liturgy, martyrs, missionaries, parishes, pilgrimages, popes, prayer, priesthood, religious orders, sacraments, schools, theologians, universities and the vita consacrata.
 
The scope is wide; the pace of the narrative is attractive.