Kenneth Scott LatouretteRezensionen

comprehensive

comprehensive

1/30/23

This monumental and classic work has been updated by a team of respected scholars. The bibliography has also been revised.

This monumental and classic work has been updated by a team of respected scholars. The bibliography has also been revised.

5368. The Nineteenth Century in Europe Background and the Roman Catholic Phase Christianity in a Revolutionary Age A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Volume I by Kenneth Scott Latourette (read 22 Apr 2016) This is the first volume of a five volume work undertaken in 1958 by a Yale professor, Baptist in Religion, in which he surveys briefly the history of Christianity up to the time of the French Revolution, and then , beginning in Chapter VI, sets out the events from 1815 to 1914 as pertinent to Catholicism,. His account does not show any obvious bias and much of the description lauds some of the Catholic behavior during the period. In fact, he is more favorable to some of the reactionary behavior of, e.g., Popes Gregory XVI and Pius IX than am I. His praise of Leo XIII I appreciated. On page 440 I noted his favorable words as to Franz Hitze, outstanding Catholic leader in Germany from the 1880's till his death in 1921, Father Hitze being my maternal grandfather's first cousin.

Volumes 1 and 2 over 2000 pages cover entire history of Christianity from beginning to late 20th century.

Though this begins with the earliest times, the main focus of this book is on the development of Japan in the 19th and early twentieth centuries. Interesting as revised up to just about te point Japan began to be seen as a serious threat to the US

Having not understood a word my Chinese History professor said all semester, I managed to pull an A in the class by studying from this book in the days before the final. This despite it having a 1946 copyright date.

Each paragraph of this classic brick-of-a-book has shelves devoted to it; the standard initial history, it thus forms the foundation of many a Christianity library. A great baseline, it'll never quite go out of date.

Each paragraph of this classic brick-of-a-book has shelves devoted to it; the standard initial history, it thus forms the foundation of many a Christianity library. A great baseline.

Comprehensive church history

History

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Volumes 1 and 2 over 2000 pages cover entire history of Christianity from beginning to late 20th century.

Coptic Christianity is not attested to historically until the 4th Century
"In Egypt Christianity was late in winning many adherents among the non-Greek speaking elements of the population, the country folk whose tongue was the native Egyptian. Yet by the beginning of the fourth century parts of the Scriptures had been translated into more than one of the non-Greek vernaculars and the foundation had been laid of a native Egyptian (Coptic) church" (p. 77).

Likewise, the Eastern branch of Christianity, in contrast to the Roman, Latin strain, is not present until the 4th Century
"As we have suggested, it seems fitting that in carrying out our story into the period which follows the first five hundred years we should begin with that portion of the narrative which centers about Constantinople and which leads into an account of what may be designated as the Greek or Byzantine segment of Christianity. It was through the administrative structure which had its headquarters at Constantinople that the Roman Empire persisted without a break. Through it, accordingly, the relationship between Church and state which had its inception under Constantine continued its most characteristic development" (p. 278).

Comprehensive church history

History, Church History

History, Christianity

History, Christianity

INDEX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX; MAPS; SEVEN VOLUMES - SEE BELOW FOR VOLUME CONTENTS; LIBRARY HAS VOL 3, 7

INDEX; BIBLIOGRAPHY