Two Thousand Years of Christianity and Ireland Lectures Delivered in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 2001-2002

This book traces the origins of Christianity and its spread through the Roman Empire: the introduction of Christianity into Ireland and the establishment of the primacy of Armagh: the conversion of the Dublin Vikings to Christianity: Papal bureaucracy in the medieval period: the causes of the reformation of the Irish church in the twelfth century: an overview of the mendicant orders in Ireland in the late medieval period; The Reformation period and the Counter-Reformation which ensued: the Ascendancy and the Penal laws; theological and ecclesiastical developments of the nineteenth century: and the Irish churches in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. No single volume can claim to be a definitive history of two thousand years of Christianity, but this collection of essays provides an accessible introduction to the topic from an Irish perspective.Kinsella, Stuart D. is the author of 'Two Thousand Years of Christianity and Ireland Lectures Delivered in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 2001-2002', published 2007 under ISBN 9781856075268 and ISBN 1856075265.