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- catalog abstract "The political and military upheaval of 1836 in Texas left Catholics north of the Nueces River cut off from the ordinary ties binding them to the institutions of the church and ushered in an era of reorganization, evangelization, and change unprecedented in the North American Catholic church. James Talmadge Moore engagingly chronicles the history of the Catholic church in Texas from the point at which Carlos E. Castaneda ended his celebrated account up to the present. Century. Moore deftly integrates local and regional events after the Texas Revolution into the larger social and political history of the young nation and state and shows their relationship to ecclesiastical and philosophical movements in the United States and abroad. He traces the contributions of various religious orders--as missionaries and in establishing schools and hospitals--and shows the evolving institutional complexity of the church as the number of Catholics. In Texas grew. Moreover, he shows the character of the people who did the work of the church--many different kinds of people, some courageous and compassionate, others less admirable. All, he concludes, were united in "their effort to live their faith in an unquiet age, an age filled with the incessant motion of unprecedented political and demographic change." With lull access to the Catholic Archives of Texas as well as other archival and primary sources and. Supplementing these amply with secondary literature, Moore has given a full and extremely readable account of the various facets of this important part of the state's religious and sociopolitical life. Scholars of religious history, Western and Southwestern studies, and Texas history will find it a solid corpus of information, while those with more general interests will enjoy the lively description of the church, the times, and the people who made them what they were in. Texas.".
- catalog contributor b3394732.
- catalog coverage "Texas Church history 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. 1836 -- 2. Tentative Steps, 1837-40 -- 3. A New Beginning -- 4. A Bishop in Texas -- 5. Expanding the Frontier Diocese -- 6. The Immigrant Catholic -- 7. The Diocese of Galveston and War, 1861-65 -- 8. In War's Wake -- 9. The Diocese of San Antonio -- 10. The Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville -- 11. Changing the Guard in Galveston -- 12. Founding the Diocese of Dallas -- 13. 1900.".
- catalog description "Century. Moore deftly integrates local and regional events after the Texas Revolution into the larger social and political history of the young nation and state and shows their relationship to ecclesiastical and philosophical movements in the United States and abroad. He traces the contributions of various religious orders--as missionaries and in establishing schools and hospitals--and shows the evolving institutional complexity of the church as the number of Catholics.".
- catalog description "In Texas grew. Moreover, he shows the character of the people who did the work of the church--many different kinds of people, some courageous and compassionate, others less admirable. All, he concludes, were united in "their effort to live their faith in an unquiet age, an age filled with the incessant motion of unprecedented political and demographic change." With lull access to the Catholic Archives of Texas as well as other archival and primary sources and.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index.".
- catalog description "Supplementing these amply with secondary literature, Moore has given a full and extremely readable account of the various facets of this important part of the state's religious and sociopolitical life. Scholars of religious history, Western and Southwestern studies, and Texas history will find it a solid corpus of information, while those with more general interests will enjoy the lively description of the church, the times, and the people who made them what they were in.".
- catalog description "Texas.".
- catalog description "The political and military upheaval of 1836 in Texas left Catholics north of the Nueces River cut off from the ordinary ties binding them to the institutions of the church and ushered in an era of reorganization, evangelization, and change unprecedented in the North American Catholic church. James Talmadge Moore engagingly chronicles the history of the Catholic church in Texas from the point at which Carlos E. Castaneda ended his celebrated account up to the present.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 284 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Through fire and flood.".
- catalog identifier "0890965048".
- catalog isFormatOf "Through fire and flood.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 42".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Through fire and flood.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Church history 19th century.".
- catalog subject "282/.764/09034 20".
- catalog subject "BX1415.T4 M66 1992".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church Texas History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 1836 -- 2. Tentative Steps, 1837-40 -- 3. A New Beginning -- 4. A Bishop in Texas -- 5. Expanding the Frontier Diocese -- 6. The Immigrant Catholic -- 7. The Diocese of Galveston and War, 1861-65 -- 8. In War's Wake -- 9. The Diocese of San Antonio -- 10. The Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville -- 11. Changing the Guard in Galveston -- 12. Founding the Diocese of Dallas -- 13. 1900.".
- catalog title "Through fire and flood : the Catholic Church in frontier Texas, 1836-1900 / James Talmadge Moore.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".