Catholic Church Through The Ages A History 2nd Ed Op John Vidmar by Op John Vidmar 9781587684289, 1587684284, B00YUTRH94 instant download after payment.

This bestseller, now in a second edition, is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until, and including, the pontificate of Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church through the Ages is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until (and including) the pontificate of John Paul II. The book explains the Church's progress by using Christopher Dawson's division of the Church's history into six distinct "ages," or 350-400 year periods of time, each cycle beginning with great enthusiasm and advancement and ending in decline and loss. Writing with the experience of twenty years of teaching, the author has fashioned an ideal text that combines substance with readability. Undergraduates, graduates, and interested lay people have given the author an idea of what topics should be emphasized. As a result, he has emphasized such areas monasticism, the Crusades, medieval theology, the Inquisition, Reformation, French Revolution, the nineteenth century, and the Church in the United States.
About the Author

Rev. John Vidmar, OP, is associate professor of history at Providence College in Rhode Island and the archivist for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. The author of Praying with the Dominicans and 101 Q&A on the Crusades and Inquisition and coauthor of 101 Q&A on The Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Tradition, he holds a doctorate in theology from the University of St. Thomas in Rome and an MPhil in ecclesiastical history from the University of Edinburgh. --This text refers to the paperback edition.