Chronology -- The Catholic Church in conflict -- I. The beginnings of the church : Founded by Jesus? ; The meaning of "church" ; Was Jesus catholic? ; The earliest church ; Peter ; A fellowship made up of Jews ; The break between Jews and Christians -- II. The early Catholic Church : Paul ; The Pauline churches ; The birth of the Catholic hierarchy ; A persecuted minority endures -- III. The imperial Catholic Church : A universal religion for the universal empire ; The state church ; The bishop of Rome claims supremacy ; The father of western theology ; The trinity reinterpreted ; The City of God -- IV. The papal church : The first real pope ; Errant popes, papal forgeries, and papal trials ; Christianity becomes Germanic ; Medieval piety ; Islam ; A state for the pope ; The western equation: Christian = Catholic = Roman ; Catholic morality ; The legal basis for future Romanization -- V. The church is split : A revolution "from above" ; A Romanized Catholic Church ; Heretics and the inquisition ; The great theological synthesis ; The ongoing life of Christians -- VI. Reform, reformation, or counter-reformation? : The end of papal domination ; Thwarted reform ; Renaissance, but not for the church ; Reformation ; Was the program of the reformation catholic? ; Responsibility for the split ; The Roman Catholic counter-reformation -- VII. The Catholic Church versus modernity : A new time ; The scientific and philosophical revolution: reason ; The Church and the Copernican shift ; The cultural and theological revolution: progress ; The consequences of the enlightenment for the church ; The political revolution: nation ; The church and the revolution ; The technological and industrial revolution: industry ; A sweeping condemnation of modernity: the council of the counter-enlightenment -- VIII. The Catholic Church, present and future : Silence about the Holocaust ; The most significant pope of the twentieth century ; Restoration instead of renewal ; Betrayal of the council ; New departures at the grass roots ; A Vatican III with John XXIV -- Which church has a future?
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