Acknowledgements Notes and Abbreviations Glossary Map: The Mediterranean World Introduction 1. Pentecost to the Fourth Century 2. Early Middle Ages: 400 to 1054 3. Central and Late Middle Ages 4. Early Modern Catholicism: 1500 to 1800 5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Conclusion Appendix: List of Ecumenical Councils Bibliography Index
A new volume to replace The Short History of the Catholic Church (Burns&Oates) - now severely out of date.
Dr Tanner is a Jesuit priest and now Professor of Church History at The Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.
‘A short, readable and informed survey of church history.'
*The Church of England Newspaper*
‘Tanner covers a tremendous amount of ground but never leaves the
reader overwhelmed with dates and names... If you want a reliable
general survey of Church History, allowing you to see the woods for
the trees, then this is the book for you.'
*The Catholic Times*
An excellent overview of church history focussing mainly on Roman
Catholicism and covering five periods... It includes a map of the
Mediterranean world, a useful appendix listing ecumenical councils,
a glossary of terms and a good bibliography and index. It will be a
useful reference work, particularly for theological students and
clergy, and will be a welcome addition to church history
studies.
*The Good Bookstall*
...the bibliography accompanying this book testifies to the breadth
and depth of scholarship distilled [in this book].
*The Furrow*
While the book is eminently readable, its treatment of the divine
and human dimensions of the Christian mystery, through history, is
sophisticated... Tanner is to be congratulated on writing this
complex and fascinating story with learning, wit and clarity. The
publisher is to be thanked for producing an elegant and attractive
volume at an affordable price.
*L'Osservatore Romano*
In fewer than 250 pages Norman Tanner... manages to compress some
2,000 years of history in a fluent and engaging way... In a sparing
and economical style [he] communicates the essential developments
and events of the Catholic Church. However, he also manages to
include a remarkable amount of specifics, accompanied by a
sensitive understanding of the changing methodology of church
history over the centuries.
*The Pastoral Review Volume 7 Issue 6*
Father Tanner's mastery of conciliar history enables him to give a
harmonious and integrated account of the continuities,
discontinuities and unresolved issues at each moment in history. .
. . [The book] provide[s] a rich foundation for Catholic
understanding and witness and could also provide resources for
those who wish to enrich their Catholic witness within conversation
among Christians, or to inform those outside who wish to discover
the richness of Catholic self-understanding.
*Catholic San Francisco*
This is a useful book of reference by the master of the history of
the councils of the Church... There is enormous value in a short,
reliable, and careful study of a sequence of events that may have
unfamiliar joinings and passageways to modern believers...
*Catholic Historical Review*
Reviewed in Doctrine and Life, Vol. 62, No.4.
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