The Penguin History of the Church, Vol.7: The Christian Church in the Cold War (Hist of the Church) - Softcover

Chadwick, Owen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014012540X ISBN 13: 9780140125405

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

This final volume in the "Penguin History of the Church" series covers the myriad institutions of organized Christianity since the early 1900s and their developing relationships with the modern state - from the survival of the Church in communist Poland to the decline of the mainstream churches in Western Europe. The book also looks at the paradoxes and difficulties of the modern Church in this century, its continuing strength in Latin America, the Catholic Church's uneasy compact with fascism between the wars, and the thriving of variable Christian sects in contemporary North America.

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Review:

"This short monograph surveys church history in Eastern and Western Europe from WW II to the present. . . . A useful introduction to the complexities of church history in contemporary Europe from the pen of a distinguished British historian."

About the Author:

Reverend Owen Chadwick (1916-2015) was one of the foremost historians of church history. Reverend Chadwick's many notable publications include The Victorian Church, Victorian Miniature, and The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century. He was a Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, where he was also Vice-Chancellor. He was an ordained Anglican priest and academic whose writing on Christianity was known for being both scholarly and entertaining.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 014012540X
• ISBN 13: 9780140125405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240