The Catholic Church: A History

From Jesus to the Creation of the Church

The First Christian Institutions

Christianities in the Early Church

Persecution and Saints

Peace Between Empire and Church

Institutional and Doctrinal Developments

Latin Theology, Including Augustine

Popes and Bishops in the Early Middle Ages

Monasticism — Benedict and His Rule

Evangelizing Northern and Eastern Europe

The Germanization of Christianity

Charlemagne and the Church in Feudal Times

Monks and Hermits — New Forms of Monasticism

Papal Reform and Church-State Controversies

Crusade, Heresy, Inquisition

The Papacy — Innocent III to Boniface VIII

Francis, Dominic, and the Mendicants

Flowering of Church Art in the Middle Ages

Scholastic Thought

Medieval Mysticism

The Great Schism and the Conciliar Age

The Renaissance Church

Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation

Catholic Responses — The Council of Trent

The Jesuits

Catholicism in Asia and the New World

American Catholicism

The Church in the Age of Reason

Pius IX and Papal Infallibility

Leo XIII and the Modern World

The Eastern Catholic Churches

The Second Vatican Council

The Catholic Church Looks Outward

The Challenges of New Theologies

John Paul II and the 21st-Century Church

One? Holy? Catholic? Apostolic?