Handbook of Church History

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The Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte is a seven-volume, ten-volume standard work on church history. It was published by Hubert Jedin in Herder-Verlag between 1962 and 1979. 48 European experts were involved in the development.

Conception and publication

In addition to Hubert Jedin (1900–1980), Theodor Klauser (1894–1984) was also involved in the conception . It should follow the historical method, but also offer "a history of the church from a Catholic perspective" and was therefore not designed as an ecumenical church history. Jochen Martin and Kenneth Scott Latourette were also involved in the publication .

Structure and employees

  • Volume I. Karl Baus : From the early community to the early Christian large church, 1962
  • Volume II / 1: Karl Baus and Eugen Ewig , The Imperial Church according to Constantine the Great - The Church from Nikaia to Chalkedon, 1973
  • Volume II / 2: Karl Baus, Hans-Georg Beck , Eugen Ewig and Hermann Josef Vogt , The Imperial Church after Constantine the Great - The Church in East and West from Chalcedon to the Early Middle Ages 451–700, 1975
  • Volume III / 1: Friedrich Kempf , Hans-Georg Beck, Eugen Ewig and Josef Andreas Jungmann , The Medieval Church - From Church Middle Ages to Gregorian Reform, 1966
  • Volume III / 2: Hans-Georg Beck, Karl August Fink , Josef Glazik , Erwin Iserloh and Hans Wolter, The Medieval Church - From the High Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation, 1968
  • Volume IV: Erwin Iserloh, Josef Glazik and Hubert Jedin, Reformation - Catholic Reform and Counter-Reformation, 1967
  • Volume V: Wolfgang Müller et al., The Church in the Age of Absolutism and the Enlightenment, 1970
  • Volume VI / 1: Roger Aubert , Johannes Beckmann , Patrick J. Corish and Rudolf Lill : The Church in the Present - The Church between Revolution and Restoration, 1971
  • Volume VI / 2: Roger Aubert et al., The Church of the Present - The Church between Adaptation and Resistance 1878 to 1914, 1973
  • Volume VII: Gabriel Adriányi uva: The Universal Church in the 20th Century, 1979

meaning

The manual is considered a classic, but its method and results, especially in the first volumes, are partially out of date.

Further editions

After several revised and changed editions, the handbook was published in an updated form in 1985 and in two paperback editions in 1999 . In 2002 it appeared in digitized form.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Iserloh, Vol. IV, p. XI
  2. ↑ Christoph Markschies: Review of: Jedin, Hubert (Ed.): Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte, Berlin 2000. In: H-ArtHist, August 16, 2002. Last accessed on September 13, 2011.