New Short History of the Catholic Church is a concise history of the Christian people with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD 2000, it seems appropriate and necessary to have a readable 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. References to these recent scholarly initiatives appear throughout this short account, providing the richness of thorough historical scholarship in the scope of a concise history book.
In each section there is a balance between the institutional and the more directly religious dimensions of the Church. Some of the elements include 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.
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