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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.
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GENERAL CHURCH HISTORY
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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
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.
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EARLY CHURCH HISTORY
on the Net
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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
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FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT
Church History
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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
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WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Church
History
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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
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
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EASTERN HEMISPHERE
Church
History
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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
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HISTORY OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS
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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
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