TY - BOOK AU - Troeltsch,Ernst TI - The social teaching of the Christian churches T2 - Harper torchbooks, TB71- The Cloister library AV - 261.83 T843S U1 - 261.83 PY - 1960///- CY - New York PB - Harper KW - Church and social problems KW - History KW - Church history N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Pt. 1. The foundations in the early church. The gospel -- Paul -- Early Catholicism -- Pt. 2. Mediaeval Catholicism. The problem -- Early social developments as the basis of the Mediaeval unity of civilization -- The territorial church period of the early Middle Ages -- The reaction in favour of the universal church and the Catholic unity of civilization -- The significance of ascetism in the system of Mediaeval life -- Relative approximation of the actual forms of social life to the ecclesiastical ideal -- The illumination of the theory of the ecclesiastical unity of civilization by the Thomist ethic -- Mediaeval social philosophy according to the principles of Thomism -- The absolute law of god and of nature, and the sects -- Pt. 3. Protestantism. The sociological problem of Protestantism -- Lutheranism -- Calvinism -- The sect-type and mysticism within Protestantism ER -