Books in the Oxford History of the Christian Church series

`...an important work which no student of 18th-century religion can ignore.' English History Review .

The religious histories of both the USA and Canada contain many dramatic themes. This study of the way the churches faced the movement of peoples into and across a vast continent tells much about their present size and characteristics in both Canada and the United States.

This is a lovely and accessible examination of all branches of the Christian Church in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the twentieth century in their central interaction with politics, social issues, war, and culture. It considers their pursuit of an elusive unity throughout a century when prevailing cultural attitudes underwent massive change.

This study explores historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings to the present time. Frykenberg focuses on trans-cultural interactions within Hindu and Muslim environments, uncovering complexities as Christianity intermingled with indigenous cultures.

Could a Pope ever consent to be the subject of a political power? Owen Chadwick presents an analysis of the causes and consquences of the end of the historic Papal State, and the psychological pressures upon old Rome as it came under attack from the Italian Risorgimento and liberal movements in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Tsarist Russia.

This is the first comprehensive history of the Christian Churches in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It illustrates the ways in which European forms of Christianity have been adapted to new contexts, and pays particular attention to the distinctive features of Melanesian and Polynesian Churches.

This book describes the change from the Catholic Church of the ancien regime to the church of the early nineteenth century as it affected the institution of the Papacy and through it the Church at large.

The Early Reformation on the Continent offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European Reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice. The reader is taken back to the origins and development of each topic examined and given an authoritative, accessible, and informative account.

The first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia from 1700 to the end of the First World War - the age of Bach and the Enlightenment, and fundamental social and political change.

Traces the influence and legacy of the Roman Catholic Church across two centuries (1050-1250 AD). The text describes folklore and church architecture as well as the Crusades, the Inquisition, papal government, the College of Cardinals, the confessional, chivalry, hospitals and marriage.

Volume 1 describes the relations of Church and State, the wealth of the Church, and its role in national life from Versailles to the scaffold. Dioceses, parishes, and the monastic structure are presented in detail, and the vocation and life-style of the clergy as in mesh with every aspect of social living.

This book is an in-depth study of the papacy between 1914 and 1958, incorporating the latest research and including a discussion of the key related historiographical debates to date.

The widely acclaimed comprehensive survey of the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453), by the late Professor J. M. Hussey. Discusses landmark events in ecclesiastical affairs, the influence of the Church on the West, its officials and organization, and the spirituality of laity, monks, and clergy.

Studying the coming of reform in the 16th century, this book argues for a comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Presenting an examination of political choices, of ecclesiastical structures, and of individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in the islands.

'The Church in Ancient Society' provides a narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianity changed this.

This book, the first of its kind in English, surveys the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (c.500-900 AD) and the special difficulties it encountered.

The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox. This title provides an account of the emergence of divisions between Rome and Constantinople. Starting with the roots of the divergence in Apostolic times, it takes the story to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century.

A reconstruction of the complex hierarchical world of the Gallican Church, destroyed by the French Revolution. This volume explores all aspects of the relations of Church and State including the wealth of the clergy, their role in official life, in the Court at Versailles and on the scaffold.