secularization of the West Nichols, James Hastings 1915- creator text nyu New York Ronald Press Co. c1956 1956 monographic eng

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493 p. hbk ; 22 cm. 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 -- James Hastings Nichols. Includes bibliographical references and index. Church history Modern period, 1500- BR450 .N5 270.7 56006268 DLC 720815 20141030123840.0 6058151