Nelson H. Minnich is professor in the Department of History and School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. Recipient of numerous fellowships and a member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences, he is a scholar of early sixteenth-century conciliar and papal history. He has served as the editor of The Catholic Historical Review since 2005.
'[A] very successful introduction to the history of the Council and provides an understanding of what happened in Trent in an assembly that reshaped the face of Catholicism.' Mateo Al Kalak, The Catholic Historical Review 'Both seminary libraries and graduate programs in church history should stock this title, but it may also find a serious readership among diocesan ecumenical offices.' Patrick J. Hayes, Catholic Library World 'This book offers a concise, yet considered, wide-ranging as well as refreshingly unanachronistic (and unpolemical) survey of a meeting whose outcomes have shaped the teaching and experience of being a member of the Roman Catholic Church for over four centuries. For that reason alone, this volume is to be welcomed, and its editor, the ever-attentive and eagle-eyed Nelson Minnich, warmly congratulated for bringing together and managing such a talented and well-qualified team of contributors to good effect.' Simon Ditchfield, Journal of Jesuit Studies