Pilgrim church : a popular history of Catholic Christianity /
William J. Bausch ; revised & expanded [by] Carol Ann Cannon, Robert Obach.
- 465 páginas ; 22 centimetros
Bibliografía : páginas 456-457.
Background and beginnings -- Expansion and its problems -- Structure of the early church -- Ministries, workship and paractices -- Fight for orthodoxy -- First reflections -- Chaos and consolidation -- Carolingian era -- Rise of papal power -- Time of greatness -- East and west -- Half-way reflections -- New nations -- Outside the mainstream -- Reformation -- Dissent, radical and established -- Catholic reform -- Reason and reaction -- Liberalism and conservatism -- Age of Pius IX -- New governments -- Toward Vatican II -- Vatican II and beyond -- Church in the United States -- Final reflections.
[The author] takes readers on a ... comprehensive journey into the Catholic Church ... [He] realises how wide is the gap between the people's understanding of the Church and the Church's historical realities [and] seeks to close this gap by critically exploring such areas as: the variety of ministries in the early Church; the Crusades; the piety of the Middle Ages; the challenge of the Reformation; the role of the pope; the rise, fall and recent reinstatement of the diaconate; the changing role of women in the Church; and the origins of liturgies and popular devotions.-Back cover.