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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: New Short History of the Catholic Church
• Author: Norman Tanner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781472909886
• ISBN: 1472909887
• ID: 04805833
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 214 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2014

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