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QUICK REFERENCE for Church History     


A History of the Church - By Yuri Josef Koszarycz, Department of Theology, Australian Catholic University.
Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History - A view of Catholic Church history from an Australian Catholic's perspective.
Church History Capsule - A capsule review of Church History from the Evangelist, the official publication of the Diocese of Albany.
Early Church Documents - Canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, and other historical texts relevant to church history.
Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History - It is impossible to know where the present-day Catholic Church is heading without having some idea of where it is presently at, and where it has been. This site will enable you to identify some of the models of the Church as they operated in various times in history and to analyze and understand the contemporary life of the Church.
Ecumenical Councils - From catholicism.org, here you will find a brief summary and background of each council.
General Works on the Early Church - Works on the Early Church, compiled by Fr. William Harmless, S.J. of Spring Hill College.
Good Pope John - June 2003 marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII. How did people of the day respond? Here is a reprint from that time by Des O'Connor SJ, then editor of The Messenger.
Guide to Early Church Documents - A Hyperlisting of resources relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.
Medieval Sourcebook - Documentary Sources on Catholic Teaching from Paul Halsal, Fordham University - contains links to Conciliar and Papal Documents, Scripture Resources and writings of the Church Fathers.
Notes Toward an Essay on Vatican II - Vatican II had given the Christian faith a new meaning and Christians a new identity based not on prohibitions and fear, but on freedom and responsibility - by Robert Blair Kaiser.
Revisiting Vatican II - An interesting look at legacy of the Second Vatican Council by The Religion Report - the transcript of a radio interview of Father Joseph Komonchak, Professor in the Faculty of Religious Education at the Catholic University of America and Australian biblical scholar, Professor Frank Moloney.
The Catacombs of Rome - This is a marvelous site, intended for those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Catacombs and of the Church history in its origins.
The College of Cardinals - From Robert Reynolds, a visual and historical website with alphabetical listings, historic and conclave notes.
The Ecole Initiative - A Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History, from the Scriptural Center at the Ecole Initiative.
The Fathers of the Church - Excerpts from Letters, speeches and books of the earliest of Christian writers.
The Gregory of Nyssa Website - This website was written in 1995 to commemorate the sixteen hundredth anniversary of the death of Gregory of Nyssa, a saint recognized by both the Eastern and Western Churches. These pages are intended to The Gregory of Nyssa Websitegive the reader a brief autobiographical sketch and to outline his teachings.
Who Are the Cardinals? - A guide of the world's cardinals produced by the editors of the respected publication Inside the Vatican. The site contains a history of the cardinals, and is organised geographically, by continent. Each of the six sections contains an essay on the role of the cardinals in the context of society and politics on each continent, and a list containing a biography and photo of each cardinal.
 

CATEGORY SITES & REFERENCES for the Church History  

General Church History | Early Church History | From the Middle Ages to the Present
Western Hemisphere Church History | Eastern Hemisphere Church History
Church History and Historical Theology |Histories of Other Denominations
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GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY on the Net     


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 Roman Catholicism Extensive article in Britannica Encyclopedia
Searching for the Tradition Articleby James Hennesey, S.J. in Catholic Southwest about writing church history
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. With special emphasis for books in the collection of Byrne Library, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama. New Testament. Christology. Early Church. Medieval Christianity. Reformation. Spirituality.
The Church's Latin Heritage Theology Library collection of links.
The US 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 Church History A Protestant perspective on what happened in each century of the Christian era.
www.cathorth.hist.edu An effort of Catholics and Orthodox to find a common history by which we can come to more appreciation of each other. Saints, martyrs, Church fathers, missionaries, bishops, theologians, holy women provide common inspiration. Heresies, conflicting theologies, civil and ecclesiastic politics, challenged the unity of the Church, but by the grace of God, holy leaders sought peace in councils.
Biographical Sketches of Memorable Christians of the Past Biographies of many historical figures, presented in chronological order.
 

EARLY CHURCH HISTORY on the Net      


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
The First Christian Martyrs of Rome Article in Compassion, 2000
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."
Refrigerium An entry point for useful Early Christian resources on the internet
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
God, Gold, Corruption and Poverty Article by Dominic James in History Today, 1998. James describes how the early Church reconciled its teaching of holy poverty with the accumulation and display of spectacular wealth
The Early Church and the State Article by David W. Hall in Premise, 1996
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
What Did the Montanists Read? Article by Nicola Denzey in Harvard Theological Review, 2001
Rethinking the Relevance of Race for Early Christian Self-definition Article by Denise Kimber Buell in Harvard Theological Review, 2001
 

FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT Church History    

Medieval History Anglo-Saxons to Angevins, Byzantium, Documents, Economic History, Feudalism, Heraldry and Genealogy, Military and Warfare, Social History, Time Lines, Vikings, Other
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
The Vanishing Vision: Late Medieval Crusading Article by Nigel Saul in History Today, 1997
Humanism Information with wonderful pictures from the Vatican Exhibit
The Galileo Affair
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
Fabri de Peiresc's Quest for a Method to Calculate Terrestrial Longitude Article by Jane T. Tolbert in Historian, 1999. Whereas Galileo sought to confront and embarrass the established Church, Peiresc worked from within clerical ranks with persuasion and tact
The Spanish Inquisition Jason L. Slade
Bede: Conversion of England
Reformation Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, English/Scottish Reformation, Mennonites, Schwenkfelder, Counter Reformation
The Strange Career of Paisios Ligarides Article by Philip Longworth in History Today, 1995, about this post-Reformation ecumenism advocate
The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council
The Revolutionary Event of Vatican II Article by Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, 1998
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 By Joseph F. MacDonnell, S.J. of the Fairfield University Mathematics Department
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
 
WESTERN HEMISPHERE  Church History      


CANADA AND ALASKA

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
Jubilee, Liturgy, and the Early History of Canada Paper by J. Frank Henderson
Roman Catholicism in Newfoundland and Labrador
Catholics in Newfoundland
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 Question: Religious Liberty and JFK's Pursuit of the 1960 Democratic Presidential Nomination Article by Thomas Carty in Historian, 2001
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
 

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Local Catholic History: 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

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
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
 

EASTERN HEMISPHERE  Church History      


EUROPE

GREAT BRITAIN

Overview of Christianity in Britain Article in Britannia Internet Magazine
Religion in Victorian England See the section on Roman Catholicism
'Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth Article by Newton E. Key in English Historical Review, 2000
A Blueprint for Tyranny? Sir Edward Hales and the Catholic Jacobite Response to the Revolution of 1688 Article by Daniel Szechi in English Historical Review, 2001
N.D. Versus O.E.: Anonymity's Moral Ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic Controversy Article by Marcy L. North in Criticism, 1998
A Brief History of the Church in Scotland
 

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
"Padre et Pastor Vostro": Girolamo Seripando and the Restoration of the Episcopate in Salerno Article by Francesco C. Cesareo in Historian, 1999


VATICAN


Papal States Before 1849
Papal States: Exiles and Political Prisoners In the 1840s
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 Parishes in 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
The Kongo Kingdom and Papacy Article by Richard Gray in History Today, 1997, about the Catholic Church's attempts to curtail the excesses of 17th century slave trade

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
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
Nineteenth-century French Missionaries and "fa'a Samoa" Article by Andrew Hamilton in Journal of Pacific History, 1998

 

HISTORY OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS on the Net      


Russian Orthodox church: early history and art
Reformation Links to sites covering Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli, Heinrich Bullinger, and others
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
Seventh-day Adventist Church History
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
History of the Churches of God in North America By S. G. Yahn, D. D
 

DIRECTORIES of the Church 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

 
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