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Faith and leadership : the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church / Michael P. Riccards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riccards, Michael P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Papacy--History.
- Papacy.
- History.
- Christian leadership--Catholic Church.
- Christian leadership.
- Authority--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Authority.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 615 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739171325
- 0739171321
- 9780739171332
- 073917133X
- OCLC:
- 769990511
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