A History of Polish Christianity,9780521364294

A History of Polish Christianity

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ISBN13: 9780521364294
ISBN10: 0521364299
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-18
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This is the only single-volume history of Christianity in Poland, a subject at the core of religious history and European secular history alike. The book covers the development of Polish Christianity from the tenth century to the present, placing it in the broader context of East-Central European political, social, religious and cultural history. A History of Polish Christianity should be read by anyone interested in the confrontation between Christianity and the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, and in the interplay between Eastern and Western Christianity.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
List of maps
viii
Maps
ix-xxiii
Foreword xxv
Christopher Brooke
Preface to the Polish Edition (1987) xxviii
Preface to the English Edition (2000) xxxiii
Glossary xxxv
Religious Orders xxxv
The Members and Provinces of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth xxxvii
Foundations
1(29)
The two spheres of Christendom in the tenth-twelfth centuries
1(4)
Poland
5(2)
Pagan beliefs
7(3)
The baptism of Poland. The Polish Church under Mieszko I and Boleslaw Chrobry
10(4)
The structure of the Church
14(6)
The Christianisation of the People
20(4)
The leaders and their heritage
24(6)
The turning point: the thirteenth century
30(20)
Reforms and culture in western Christianity in the thirteenth century
30(3)
Polish society during the period of fragmentation
33(2)
The new position of the Church and the strengthening of its structures
35(4)
The religious houses and the religious in the thirteenth century
39(6)
The parish in Poland - a turning point in the religious beliefs of the people
45(5)
The expansion of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
50(34)
The complexity and significance of changes in Christendom in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
50(4)
Poland and the Polish Church in a new world
54(5)
Expansion of the structure and function of the Church
59(6)
Schools and universities
65(3)
The intellectual elites of Christian Poland encountering the problems of the epoch
68(6)
The specific and native character of Polish religious culture
74(10)
Great reforms
84(42)
Great reforms in western Christendom
84(6)
The Polish-Lithuanian state in the sixteenth century
90(6)
The Lutheran Church
96(4)
Success and defeats of the Polish Protestant reform
100(8)
The victory of Catholicism
108(8)
Reforms in the Eastern Church
116(2)
A general view
118(8)
Post-Tridentine Catholicism and Polish Baroque
126(38)
The long-lasting Catholic Reform
126(3)
The crisis of the Commonwealth and changes in standing of religious denominations
129(6)
Organisation of the Church: bishops, dioceses, parishes
135(6)
The religious Orders
141(8)
Culture and religious life
149(15)
Enlightenment and the Partitions
164(37)
Christianity and Enlightenment
164(9)
The Catholic Enlightenment in Poland
173(17)
The immediate effects of the partitions. The Polish Church in the era of Napoleon I and Alexander I
190(11)
Slow revival in bondage
201(52)
The revival of the Church in nineteenth-century Europe
201(14)
Polish patriotic religion in the age of the uprisings
215(16)
The folk Church and the Oppressed out vital nation
231(22)
Twentieth-century defeats and successes
253(84)
The experience and transformation of the Catholic Church
253(15)
Independent Poland
268(29)
The Second World War and the occupation
297(11)
Under communist rule: 1944/1989
308(29)
Postscript: after 1989
337(8)
Bibliographical essay 345(17)
Index 362

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