The Catholic Church: A Short HistoryIn this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes; and the expansion of a global Church infrastructure. The book concluded with a searching assessment of how the Catholic faith will confront the immense challenges posed in the new millennium by the scientific community, by women questioning their role in the Church, and by those seeking reform of the strictures against abortion and contraception. The Catholic Church is a landmark book by a controversial and profoundly influential thinker. |
Contents
The Earliest Church | 8 |
Paul | 18 |
A Universal Religion for the Universal Empire | 35 |
The Father of Western Theology | 44 |
The City of God | 51 |
The First Real Pope | 57 |
Medieval Piety | 64 |
Christian Catholic Roman | 70 |
The Roman Catholic CounterReformation | 134 |
A New Time | 141 |
The Church and the Copernican Shift | 146 |
The Church and the Revolution | 152 |
A Sweeping Condemnation of Modernity | 159 |
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH | 169 |
Silence about the Holocaust | 176 |
Restoration Instead of Renewal | 187 |
A Revolution from Above | 79 |
Heretics and the Inquisition | 94 |
The Great Theological Synthesis | 101 |
REFORM REFORMATION | 109 |
Renaissance but Not for the Church | 118 |
Responsibility for the Split | 125 |
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