HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

From the Renaissance to the French Revolution

REV. JAMES MACCAFFREY, S.J., 1914

VOLUME I

[On the European Continent]
Preface
 
Chapter I
Causes of the Reformation
 
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) Political and Social Condition of Europe.
(c) The Religious Condition of Europe.
 
 
Chapter II
The Religious Revolution: Lutheranism and Zwinglianism
 
(a) In Germany.
(b) Zwingli in Switzerland: His Attitude Towards Lutheranism.
(c) Northern Europe.
 
 
Chapter III
Progress of Calvinism
 
(a) In Switzerland.
(b) Calvinism in France.
(c) Calvinism in the Netherlands.
 
 
Chapter IV
The Counter-Reformation
 
[Introduction.]
(a) The Council of Trent.
(b) The Reforming Activity of the Popes.
(c) The Religious Orders and the Counter-Reformation.
(d) The Thirty Years’ War.
 
 
Chapter V
Catholic Missions
 
 
Chapter VI
Theological Controversies and Studies
 
(a) Baianism.
(b) The Molinist Controversy.
(c) Jansenism.
(d) The Immaculate Conception.
(e) Tyrannicide.
(f) The Copernican System. Galileo Galilei.
(g) Progress of Theological Studies.
 
 
Chapter VII
The Age of Absolutism and Unbelief
 
(a) Gallicanism.
(b) Febronianism and Josephism.
(c) Jansenism.
(d) Quietism.
 
 
Chapter VIII
Rationalism and its Effects
 
(a) Anti-Christian Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century.
(b) The Aufklarung Movement in Germany.
(c) Freemasonry.
(d) The Suppression of the Society of Jesus.
(e) Failure of Attempts at Reunion. Protestant Sects.
 
 
Chapter IX
The Papacy
 
 
Chapter X
Theological Studies. Religious Life.
 

VOLUME II

[In the British Isles]
 
Chapter I
Religious Condition of England Before the Reformation
 
 
Chapter II
Religious Changes Under Henry VIII and Edward VI
 
 
Chapter III
Catholic Reaction in the Reign of Queen Mary (1553-1558)
 
 
Chapter IV
The Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603)
 
 
Chapter V
Catholicism in England from 1603 till 1750
 
 
Chapter VI
The Reformation in Scotland
 
 
Chapter VII
Religion in Ireland During the Fifteenth Century
 
 
Chapter VIII
The Church in Ireland During the Reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI (1509-1553)
 
 
Chapter IX
The Church in Ireland During the Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (1553-1603)
 
 
Chapter X
The Church in Ireland During the Reign of the Stuarts (1604-1689)
 
 
Chapter XI
The Penal Laws
 

 
HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
From the Renaissance to the French Revolution
 
REV. JAMES MACCAFFREY
 
Lic. Theol. (Maynooth), Ph.D. (Freiburg i. B.)
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
 
Nihil Obstat: Thomas O’Donnell, C.M.
Censor Theol. Deput.
 
Imprimi Potest: Guilielmus,
Archiep. Dublinen., Hiberniæ Primas.
 
Dublini, 16 Decembris, 1914.
 
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