Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-306) and index.
Contents
The origins and early history of the Christian church to 461 -- The development of the western church and its final separation from the east, 461-1198 -- Papalism and conciliarism, 1198-1455 -- The age of rationalism and absolutism, 1648-1789 -- The church, revolution, and reaction, 1789-1914 -- The church and the modern world, 1914-1978 -- Table of major events in church history -- Table of popes and their reigns.