TY - BOOK AU - Nichols,James Hastings TI - History of Christianity, 1650-1950: secularization of the West / AV - BR450 .N5 U1 - 270.7 PY - 1956/// CY - New York PB - Ronald Press Co. KW - Church history KW - Modern period, 1500- N1 - 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 -- ER -