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 --