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John Tracy Ellis: Why Study History Article in Catholic Southwest An Eight Module History of the Church from Apostolic Days to the Present By Yuri Josef Koszarycz, Senior Lecturer in Religion Studies, Department of Theology, Australian Catholic University (McAuley Campus) History of Vatican City -- Primary Documents The title is misleading. This site contains links to many sources of the primary documents of Church history The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 - 1870 1960 book by Msgr. Philip Huges The Ecumenical Councils Brief summary and background of each council. But be careful: this comes from a site that views Vatican II as bad theology and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, written by "Modernist fabricators," as filled with "trickery" Bibliographies for Theology Compiled by Fr. William Harmless, S.J. of Creighton University. New Testament. Early Christianity. Medieval Christianity. Reformation. Spirituality and Mysticism. Sacraments. 20th-Century Theology Bibliographies for Theology Compiled by Fr. William Harmless, S.J. With special emphasis for books in the collection of Burke Memorial Library, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama. New Testament. Christology. Early Church. Medieval Christianity. Reformation. Spirituality. Sacraments and Christian Worship The Church's Latin Heritage Theology Library collection of links American Catholic Historical Society Founded 1884. About the Society. The U.S. Catholic Historian. Documents of Church History. Catholic Archives. News About the Society. How to Join the Society. Governance of the Society Catholic History FTP Site From the archives of Catholic Information Network Internet Theology Resources: Church History and Historical Theology Christian History Articles from the current and past issues Sketches of Church History From AD 33 to the Reformation. 1904 book by the late Rev. J. C Robertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury Chronology of Christianity (1AD-Present) Courtesy of Et Cum Spiritu Tuo Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past Biographies of many historical figures, presented in chronological order Company's History Articles Articles appearing in the Jesuit magazine Company Bank of Church History Questions Over 1600 questions covering eleven topics with four types of inquiry: multiple choice, chronology multiple choice, matching and free response. A free service offered to all certified religion teachers. To proceed beyond the opening page you will need a password. Bona Fide theology teachers may request a password, at no charge, by sending an application letter to the bank's creator, Brother Malcolm Melcher, S.C. Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus An excellent site by Mahlon Smith exploring the world in which Jesus lived by means of well-organised, newly translated primary texts and other material The Jewish Roman World of Jesus An excellent resource by James Tabor, with a variety of essays, pictures and pieces of information on Judaism in the first Century, the New Testament and Christian origins The Ecole Initiative Creating a hypertext excyclopedia of early church history on the world wide web The Ecole Glossary One hundred glosses on many topics relating to early Church history, such as Arianism, Basil the Great, Desert Fathers, Donation of Constantine, Donatism, Louis IX, Marcion, Nero, Nicene Creed, Patrick of Ireland, Porphyry, Teresa of Avila, Theodosius, Thomas Aquinas Guide to Early Church Documents Links to internet-accessible files containing canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, and other historical texts relevant to church history An Overview of Israelite, Jewish, and Early Christian History By Prof. Felix Just, S.J. of Loyola Marymount University EarlyChurch.org.uk An Internet Resource for Studying the Early Church. Webmaster: Robert I. Bradshaw, B.Sc., C.D.R.S. The First Christian Martyrs of Rome Article in Compassion, 2000 Research Papers Papers available for purchase at $2.50 apiece, several on historical topics, from the Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity By Walter Bauer. English Translation of the 1934 German original, ed and supplemented by Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Kroedel with a team from the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins The Multiform Jewish Heritage of Early Christianity Robert Kraft The Concept of "Orthodoxy" in Early Christianity Robert Kraft Ancient Synagogues in the Holy Land--What Synagogues? David Landau: "I maintain that the so-called synagogues were actually Roman temples built during the reign of Maximin (the end of the 3rd century and beginning of the 4th) as a desperate means to fight what the Romans considered the Christian menace." Church History Eusebius of Caesarea Ancient Jewish Accounts of Jesus Narrative Movement in the Gospel of John Part of James Tabor 's "Jewish-Roman World of Jesus" web site The Christians as the Romans Saw Them Quotes from Suetonius, Tacitus, Pliny, Trajan, Lucian, and Galen. Part of James Tabor 's "Jewish-Roman World of Jesus" web site The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City From the book Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Lanciani Chronology 1 to 199 CE Chronology 200-640 CE Copts Through the Ages A history of the Catechetical School in Alexandria by Jackie Ascott, Ph.D., of the Coptic Orthodox Church First Council of Nicaea (325) Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia First General Council of Constantinople 381) Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Council of Ephesus (431) Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Council of Chalcedon (451) Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Second Council of Nicaea (787) Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia The Pontificate of Pope Saint Leo the Great By Sister Catherine, M.I.C.M Devotion and Dissent: The Practice of Christianity in Roman Africa About half a dozen excellent articles A Materialist Sociology of Early Christianity By William Arnal, University of Toronto Medieval History Anglo-Saxons to Angevins, Byzantium, Documents, Economic History, Feudalism, Heraldry and Genealogy, Military and Warfare, Social History, Time Lines, Vikings, Other Medieval Church.org.uk An Internet Resource for Studying the Church of the Middles Ages. Webmaster: Robert I. Bradshaw, B.Sc., C.D.R.S. Monastic Matrix Our goal is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe. In particular, we aim to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 CE Humanism Information with wonderful pictures from the Vatican Exhibit The Galileo Affair Article by George Sim Johnston Galileo and the Inquisition Article by William E. Carroll in Journal of Religion and Society, 1999 Galileo and the Inquisition Paper by Jose Wudka, physics professor at University of California, Riverside The Inquisition From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia The Inquisition From the Jewish Virtual Library Bede: Conversion of England Reformation Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, English/Scottish Reformation, Mennonites, Schwenkfelder, Counter Reformation The College of Cardinals: An Historical Website Man of the Year: Pope John XXIII Time Magazine, January 4, 1963 Man of the Year: Pope John Paul II Time Magazine, December 26, 1994 A Brief Jesuit History 10 Great Catholics of the Second Millennium Article by Christopher M. Bellitto in St. Anthony Messenger The Remnant Faithful: A Case Study of Contemporary Apocalyptic Catholicism Article by Amy Luebbers in Sociology of Religion, 2001 Association of Contemporary Church Historians This is the archive of Professor John Conway's monthly electronic newsletter, which covers all aspects of twentieth century church history, but has a special emphasis on German church history SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council The Revolutionary Event of Vatican II Article by Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, 1998 The Second Vatican Council Resource Guide This guide is intended to serve as a starting point for learning and research, providing selected web links and supplemental reading regarding the Second Vatican Council and its legacy Eyewitness To Vatican II Archbishop Emeritus Denis E Hurley of Durban was one of the driving forces in the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) which revolutionised the Catholic Church. In this series, written exclusively for The Southern Cross and published in 2001, Archbishop Hurley recalls key episodes of Vatican II, giving a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the great Council, including previously unpublished anecdotes Second Vatican Council General and advanced information by Richard McBrien, C T McIntire, and others Vatican Two This website by Ingrid H. Shafer celebrates the Second Vatican Council and its promise for the future of the Catholic Church. Vatican II: 40 years later Several items that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter in 2002 CANADA AND ALASKA In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures Liturgy, Music and Culture in Early Canada Paper by J. Frank Henderson Roman Catholicism in Newfoundland and Labrador The Catholic Church in Newfoundland: The Pre-Emancipation Years By Mary Mulcahy, R.S.M. Religion, Society & Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador Information on Anglicans, Congregationalism, Methodism, Moravians, Native Religions, Pentecostals, Reformation, Restoration Movement, Roman Catholicism, Salvation Army CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES Divining America: The 17th and 18th Centuries Articles: "Puritanism, Conversion, and Predestination." "The First Great Awakening." "The Church of England in Early America." "Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America." "Religion and the American Revolution" Divining America: The 19th Century Articles: "Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America." "Mormonism and the American Mainstream." "Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening." "Evangelicalism as a Social Movement." "African-American Religion" Divining America: The 20th Century Articles: "Religious Liberalism and the Modern Crisis of Faith." "The Rise of Fundamentalism." "Roman Catholics and the American 'Mainstream' in the Twentieth Century." "The Scopes Trial." "Religion in Post-World War II America." "The Christian Right" The Catholic Experience at Taming Pluralism Article by Joseph M. McShane, S.J Lectures for Religion 166 Lectures on religious history in the United States by Professor Terry Matthews of Wake Forest University. The CAtholic Church is touched on in many lectures, but see especially the next item Catholicism in Nineteenth Century America By Professor Terry Matthews of Wake Forest University Intolerable Papists, Jesuits and Revolutionary Concord Article by D. Michael Ryan in the March 99 issue of Concord (Massachusetts) Magazine. Catholicism was not well tolerated in Concord during Revolutionary times Religion in Eighteenth-Century America Courtesy of the Library of Congress Reminiscences, memoirs, and lectures of Monsignor A. Ravoux, V. G. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Ravoux was a French priest working among Native Americans in the middle of the 19th century Memoirs, historical and edifying, of a missionary apostolic of the order of Saint Dominic among various Indian tribes and among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States of America Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Text of a 1915 book covering Catholic missions in the 1830s and 1840s The Catholic Worker Movement Jim Forest Dorothy Day Library on the Web The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right Article by Bill Kauffman in Whole Earth, 2000 (Arch)diocesan histories The History of the Catholic Church in Indiana Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert Brief historical information along with slides Catholic Southwest, Volume 1 Contains these articles: "Searching, Finding and the Catholic History of Texas" by Phillip Gleason; "The Enduring Hispanic Faith Communities: Spanish and Texas Church Historiography" by Gilberto M. Hinojosa; "Jean-Marie Odin, C.M., Missionary Bishop Extraordinaire of Texas" by Patrick Foley Catholic Southwest, Volume 3 Contains these articles: "The Legacy of Columbus: Spanish Mission Policy in Texas" by Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.; "Before They Crossed the Great River: Cultural Background of The Spanish Franciscans in Texas" by Kieran McCarty, O.F.M.; "Women Religious and the Catholic Evangelization of Texas: a Photographic Essay Compiled by Kinga Perzynska; "The Catholic Parish History Revisited" by Charles E. Nolan Catholic Southwest, Volume 4 Contains these articles: "Freedom and Conversion: The English Experience" by Marvin R. O'Connell; "Catholic Germans from Russia in Texas" by Dona B. Reeves-Marquardt and Lewis R. Marquardt; "Towards a Working Definition of Social Justice: Father Carmelo A. Tranchese, S.J. and Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 1932-1953" by J. Gilberto Quesada; "Challenges of Catholic Evangelization in Texas: The Response of Women Religious" by Mary Christine Morkovsky, C.D.P.; "Church Courts, Marriage Breakdown, and Separation In Spanish Louisiana, West Florida, and Texas" by Light Townsend Cummins A Little History Information on the Jesuits of Loyola University in New Orleans LATIN AMERICA The Role and Mission of the Catholic Church in Mexico Mexican Anticlerics, Bishops, Cristeros, and the Devout during the1920s: A Scholarly Debate By Donald J. Mabry, Journal of Church and State The Inquisition in the New World By Clara Steinberg-Spitz Transnational Religions: The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil & the Orthodox Church in Russia Article by Ralph Della Cava in Sociology of Religion, 2001 Globalization, Civil Society and Religion from a Latin American Standpoint Article by Catalina Romero in Sociology of Religion, 2001 The Jesuit Missions (Reducciones) in South America By Marco Ramerini EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN Overview of Christianity in Britain Article in Britannia Internet Magazine Religion in Victorian England See the section on Roman Catholicism N.D. Versus O.E.: Anonymity's Moral Ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic Controversy Article by Marcy L. North in Criticism, 1998 History of the Diocese of Glasgow by John Ritchie/J. S. Phillimore, from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VI, 1909 Ecclesiastical History of Edinburgh by D. O. Hunter-Blair, from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V, 1909 GERMANY Catholic Association of Germany The KVD laid the foundation for Catholic charitable and social engagement throughout Central Europe, what German historians call "social Catholicism" Bishop Kettler He made his national debut in 1848, and in the following decades became the leading Catholic social thinker in Germany German Catholic Women On the role of Catholic women in the German revolutions of 1848-49 NETHERLANDS Short history of Dutch Catholicism In the 19th and 20th century FRANCE Church in France In the middle of the 19th century The World of Thérèse France, Church and State in the Late 19th Century. By Leopold Glueckert, O.Carm The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre Article by Scott M. Manetsch in Christian History ITALY Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli Papal secretary of state for almost three decades (1848-1876), he played a key role in the counter-Risorgimento which opposed Italian unification, influencing Italian and European affairs in the process VATICAN Papal States Before 1849 Papal States: Exiles and Political Prisoners In the 1840s Popes through the Ages By Joseph Brusher, S.J. Pius IX The longest-reigning pope, who played an important part in 19th century Italian and European developments, shaping the character of the Catholic church and the papacy prior to Vatican II SCANDINAVIA Religion and Churches in Finland The History of the Catholic Church in Norway RUSSIA The Church and the Holy Spirit in 20th Century Russia Article by Boris Bobrinskoy in Ecumenical Review, 2000 The Faith in Russian History Article by Warren H. Carroll in The Catholic Faith Magazine, 1996 AFRICA A History of Christianity in Egypt The Tanzania Catholic Church History of the Diocese of Eshowe, South Africa A Catholic Voice against British imperialism: F C Kolbe's Opposition to the Second Anglo-Boer War Article by Frederick Hale in Religion and Theology ASIA Stones and Stories: Reconstructing the Christianization of the Golan History of the Maronite Patriarchate Aspects of Maronite History, by Chorbishop Seely Beggiani: Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine The History of Melkites The Armenian Catholic Church The Chaldean Church of the East The Syriac Catholic Church History of the Catholic Church in Tomsk and Novosibirsk By Fr. Paul Bitautas Saulius, O.F.M. You have to scroll down to where it says: Document from KOENIGSTEIN (part 1) The Church in Taiwan, ROC: Brief History The Attempt of Matteo Ricci to Link Chinese and Western Cultures Chapter 11 of the book Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese Culture by Tang Yi-Jie History of the Catholic Church in Korea Overview of the History of the Catholic Church in Japan History of Sacred Heart in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/OCEANIA The Church in Australia: The Catholic Tradition Russian Orthodox church: early history and art The Reformation Guide Provides easy access to the wealth of Internet information available on the reformation period. Areas covered: Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, John Calvin, Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, Schwenkfeld, Radical Reformation, English Reformation, Scottish Reformation, Irish Reformation, Counter Reformation, American Reformation, Reformation Gallery - People, Reformation Gallery - Places History of Protestantism Dr. Wylie's Monumental History was first published in 1878. It covers a vast period from the beginnings of Christianity to the revolution in Great Britain in 1688 How did the Mennonite Church begin? Anabaptist-Mennonite History The Anabaptist Story The Origins of the Pentecostal Movement A Brief History of the Presbyterian Church in America A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church By Nathan Bangs, D.D Church History Lectures From a Seventh-day Adventist perspective Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith Restoration Movement Features historical texts, pictures, resources for historical research and links to other relevant pages dealing with the Restoration Movement. This nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement Resources The purpose of this site is to provide access to research tools such as electronic bibliographies, searchable databases, and texts related to the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement that are not available any where else on the Internet, and to provide links to other sources of information on the Internet about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement 200 Years of United Methodism: An Illustrated History By John Galen McEllhenney A History of the Moravian Church 1909 edition, by Joseph Edmund Hutton Baptist History The Complete List of Popes Internet Medieval Sourcebook Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies Labyrinth Medieval Europe Church History and Historical Theology Resources for Catholic Educators: Church History  Suggestions? |