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The Catholic Church through the Ages: A History
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Average Rating:  out of 13 Reviews
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.23
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780809142347
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Vidmar
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.09
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Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: 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. As a supplement to each chapter, the author has included an annotated list of reading and audio-visual materials.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Agree with the positive comments |
Date: 2008-10-26 |
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Details: This is an engaging and detailed tour of history from the establishment of the Catholic church through to our modern age. |
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Review Summary: The Catholic Church through the Ages: A History |
Date: 2008-10-17 |
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Details: This is a concise but substantive outline of the history of the Catholic Church. Useful for the general reader, the extensive bibliography points the way to further study, while the body of the work is detailed enough to give a clear picture of the development of the Church from the beginning to the present day. |
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Review Summary: very one-sided |
Date: 2008-02-12 |
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Details: I bought this book due to the good reviews it received. I am sorry to disagree, it presents as far as I can judge a very one-sided view of history. It is one thing to put the inquisition into perspective, but another to distort the facts. "The medieval inquisition was actually a considerable advance in the treatment of criminals" (page 149). Well, I do not even see him as a Dominican mentioning the infamous "Malleus Maleficarum" written by members of his order, revealing the horrofic view behind the inquisition.
To Galilei he writes "what got him into trouble was not his scientific study of the solar system but rather his claim that the bible might be wrong" (page 258). This is absolutely distorting the facts: It was exactly Galilei's study of the solar system, seeing that the earth moves around the sun, which was seen to contradict the bible!
It is sad when Catholics feel the need to white-wash history in order to handle the negative aspects of history. This makes us Catholics loose all credibility. |
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Review Summary: ADMIRABLE OPENESS AND HONESTY IS A GOOD REFERENCE |
Date: 2008-02-08 |
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Details: This is a must read book! I am fascinated of how every detailed information, facts and figures, historical events surrounding the early Church has magnified the intensity in a reader, to really imagine and make assessment, the implications and challenges facing the Church today. I recommend this book not only as a "high average" rank among others, but a good source of material for students of medieval church history and the middle ages. Teachers of medieval history and Church studies will be able to benefit from its rich, balance, controversial open-minded style of the author's original handwork. Great! |
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Review Summary: The Catholic Church Through the Ages: A History |
Date: 2007-10-06 |
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Details: Book matches the text I was required to purchase for my college course. The Amazon price saved me a lot of money. |
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