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Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970.

The dividing of Christendom / [by] Christopher Dawson ; foreword by Douglas Horton. - New York : Sheed and Ward, [1965] - x, 304 p. ; 22 cm.

"Drawn, in considerable part, from the lectures which ... [the] author gave while occupying the Charles Chauncey Stillman Chair of Roman Catholic Theological Studies at the Divinity School of Harvard University."

Bibliographical footnotes.

The cultural consequences of Christian disunity --
The decline of the unity of medieval Christendom --
The Renaissance --
Martin Luther and the call to revolt --
The revolution of the princes --
The reformation in England --
The reformation in France --
The council of Trent and the rise of the Jesuits --
The puritans and the formation of the New England way --
The national divisions of divided Christendom --
The Catholic revival and the baroque culture --
The culture of divided Christendom --
The age of Louis XIV and the formation of classical French culture --
The Wesleyan movement in America --
The secularization of modern culture --
The age of the Enlightenment --
The French revolution: the situation of Catholicism in the 18th century.

LCCN: 65012208

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Schism.
Reformation.
Church history.

LC Class. No.: BR148 / .D3

Dewey Class. No.: 270.6