Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)

"Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)" by J. H. Kurtz is a historical exploration of the seventeenth century through the lens of Christianity. The book opens by charting the Roman Catholic Church's fleeting victories and desires for dominance in the East, focusing on Jesuit missions and efforts to control the Eastern Orthodox Churches. From there, the book transitions into the fraught connections between Protestantism and Catholicism, noting impactful conversions and significant events such as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which greatly affected the Huguenots in France. All the while, the era's persistent struggles for religious unity and the divisions that thwarted these goals are brought to light through examinations of both cooperative efforts and open conflicts.