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Faith and leadership [electronic resource] : the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church / Michael P. Riccards.

By: Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 615 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780739171332 (electronic bk.)
  • 073917133X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Faith and leadership.DDC classification:
  • 262/.1309 23
LOC classification:
  • BX957 .R53 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The primitive church -- From bishop to pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 a.d.) -- The threats to orthodoxy -- Beyond the end of the empire, 500-800 -- The medieval papacy looks East -- Abuses and reform, 800-1000 -- The papal monarchy, 1000-1500 -- The worldly popes -- The Protestant Reformation -- The timidity of reform -- The Catholic Reformation -- The council as a reform movement -- Religious wars and religious repression -- The Enlightenment -- The church confronts the Leviathan -- The church and the ancien regime -- The emperor's attack on the papacy -- Pius IX: the first modern Pope -- Leo XIII: the soul of the industrial state -- Pius X: moods of piety and repression -- Benedict XV and the mad dogs of war -- Pius XI and the new men of violence -- Pius XII and the spiritual twilight of the West -- John XXII and the promise of aggiornamento -- Paul VI: the perils of aggiornamento -- John Paul II: the uneasy agenda of restoration -- Postscript: Benedict XVI.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The primitive church -- From bishop to pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 a.d.) -- The threats to orthodoxy -- Beyond the end of the empire, 500-800 -- The medieval papacy looks East -- Abuses and reform, 800-1000 -- The papal monarchy, 1000-1500 -- The worldly popes -- The Protestant Reformation -- The timidity of reform -- The Catholic Reformation -- The council as a reform movement -- Religious wars and religious repression -- The Enlightenment -- The church confronts the Leviathan -- The church and the ancien regime -- The emperor's attack on the papacy -- Pius IX: the first modern Pope -- Leo XIII: the soul of the industrial state -- Pius X: moods of piety and repression -- Benedict XV and the mad dogs of war -- Pius XI and the new men of violence -- Pius XII and the spiritual twilight of the West -- John XXII and the promise of aggiornamento -- Paul VI: the perils of aggiornamento -- John Paul II: the uneasy agenda of restoration -- Postscript: Benedict XVI.

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