History of Christianity, 1650-1950 :

Nichols, James Hastings, 1915-

History of Christianity, 1650-1950 : secularization of the West / James Hastings Nichols. - New York : Ronald Press Co., c1956. - 493 p. hbk ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : Westphalia to the French Revolution.
Main themes of modern church history --
Eastern Orthodoxy, particularly in Russia --
The Roman Church and the Catholic Princes --
Lutheranism in state and territory --
The Reformed tradition, Anglicanism and Free Church Calvinism --
British Puritanism overseas --
Pietism and Evangelicalism --
Enlightenment christianity -- Part II : From the French revolution to 1870.
The French Revolution --
Napoleon and the Concordats --
Reformed churches and the States --
Lutheranism: Court-church or peoples' church? --
Protestant thought in Germany --
Anglicanism and the English free churches --
The churches of the American immigrants and frontier --
The Ultramontane Reaction to the Revolution --
Part III : 1870 to World War I :
The International Kulturkampf --
"Catholic Action" --
Continental Protestantism --
British Christianity --
The American Social Gospel and Theological Liberalism --
European Protestant Theology --
Roman Catholic Theological Liberalism --
Protestant Missions 1796-1914 --
Roman Catholic Missions, 1814-1914 --
Eastern Orthodoxy in the Nineteenth Century --
Part IV : From World War I the the mid century.
Orthodoxy and the USSR --
Roman Catholicism and the Totalitarians --
Continental Protestantism and the Nazis --
Great Britain and the Commonwealth --
The institutional consolidation of American Evangelicalism --
The younger churches --
The Ecumenical Movement --
World War II and after --


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