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050	0	0	_aBX965 _b.S65 2008
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100	1		_aSpiteri, Laurence John, _d1950-
245	1	0	_aAt your fingertips : _ba history of the Roman Catholic Church until the Council of Trent / _cLaurence J. Spiteri.
260			_aStaten Island, N.Y. : _bSt. Pauls, _c2008.
300			_axiv, 218 p. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aFrom humble beginnings to Constantine -- The roots of Christianity -- The Apostolic Fathers of the church -- The Christian classical age of martyrs -- Institutional development -- Apologists -- Heresies and division show their heads -- The sprouting of monasticism -- Church gains freedom -- Ecumenical councils battle heresies -- The classical doctors of the church -- Major early heresies and schisms -- More upheaval in Roman Africa -- The first four ecumenical (general) councils -- Justinian the Great -- Further doctrinal discord and councils -- The reshaping of western Europe -- The invasion of southern Europe -- Social changes -- Monasticism expands -- New secular rulers and the church -- Emergence of papal monarchy -- Islamic invasions -- The donation of Pepin -- Charlemagne -- Conversion of northern European tribes -- Conversion of the Slavs -- The approach of the dark ages -- Reforms -- Monastic reform -- Attempted reform in the papacy -- Free papal elections -- Clashes between popes and German emperors -- Emergence of the supremacy of the Roman See -- Division in Christendom -- Iconoclasm -- The Photian schism -- The great schism -- The issue of war -- Western and eastern theories of war -- The peace and truce of God -- The crusades -- Religious military orders -- Roman centralization and church innovations -- Papal legates -- Canon law -- The canonist popes -- The emergence of a new religious lifestyle -- The Franciscans -- The order of preachers (Dominicans) -- The Carmelites -- The Augustinians -- Faith and reason -- The end of the dark ages -- Intellectual reawakening -- The emergence of universities -- Philosophy and theology debates -- Medieval theologians -- The age of scandals and the papal Babylonian exile -- Papal elections and ecclesiastical appointments -- Popes and French interests -- Papal autocracy -- The papacy battles France -- From Rome to Avignon -- Popes and holy Roman emperors -- End of the papal Babylonia exile -- European population in crisis -- The great western schism and its aftermath -- Church in west divides -- Conciliarism -- End of the western great schism -- Popes battle conciliarism -- The end of conciliarism -- The Renaissance and the church -- The beginning of the Renaissance in Rome -- Need for inner reform -- Visions for church reform -- Attempts at church reform -- The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Church counter-reformation -- The clash between Luther and Rome -- Germany in rebellion -- Protestantism is organized -- The peace of Augsburg -- Interpretation of sacraments -- The Scandinavian reformation -- The English Reformation -- Ecclesiastical and political intrigues -- The eve of the opening of the Council of Trent -- The Council of Trent is convened.
650		0	_aPapacy _xHistory.
650		0	_aChurch history.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008031107.html
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