Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Protestantism in the Long Nineteenth Century -- Mutual Dreams of Order in an Unruly World, 1880s-1920s -- The Birth of Ecumenism from the Crucible of Nazism -- Grand Compromises at the Zenith of Christian Power -- Radical Ecumenism in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion.

"As recently as the early twentieth century, conflict between Catholics and Protestants was a defining feature of politics and culture in Europe. By mid-century, however, European Christians had developed a strong ecumenical culture, with a new emphasis on shared moral values and some explicitly interconfessional "Christian Democratic" political parties. The End of the Schism explains this remarkable transformation. Rather than a kind of pluralistic tolerance fostered by the shared experience of suffering in World War II, Greenberg argues that the ecumenical shift is better understood as an attempt to preserve social hierarchies and an alliance against mutual enemies and egalitarian ideologies."-- Provided by publisher.