This critically acclaimed history is now updated and expanded for the student of the 1990's. It remains a singularly useful reference work, covering the significant events and action over the past two millennia. Divided into five parts, corresponding to the major historic and epochal developments in the Church from its triumph over paganism through 'the sound and fury of renewal' to a new section covering such topics as dissent, current developments in the ecumenical movement, and liberation theology Bokenkotter's work, in the words of one reviewer, is 'a tract for the times, an attempt to help bewildered Roman Catholics and others get some sense of the origins of all the change that has streamed through the windows by Vatican II.'
