Keepers of the keys of heaven [electronic resource] : a history of the papacy / Roger Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Roger, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Government.

Catholic Church.

Papacy--History.

Papacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Saint Peter to John Paul II, a brilliantly lucid and comprehensive single-volume history of the papacy by a distinguished religious scholar

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Maps; chapter 1 Bishop of Rome; chapter 2 Primacy Is Given to Peter; chapter 3 The Successor of the Fisherman; chapter 4 Peter Himself; chapter 5 The Two Swords; chapter 6 Slave of the Slaves of God; chapter 7 The Keys of the Kingdom; chapter 8 Judging All Men, Judged by None; chapter 9 Our Mother the Holy Roman Church; chapter 10 Free, Chaste and Catholic; chapter 11 The Successor Not of Peter but of Constantine; chapter 12 Less Than God but Greater Than Man; chapter 13 False Guilt-laden Babylon; chapter 14 Three Bishops on One Seat

chapter 15 A Leader of the World,Not of the Churchchapter 16 Beautiful as a Dove; chapter 17 Sundial of the Church; chapter 18 The Last Pope; chapter 19 The Last Great Thing Left to Italy; chapter 20 The Prisoner of the Vatican; chapter 21 The Impregnable Rock of Peter; List of Popes; Abbreviations; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-548) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-46024-2

9786612460241

0-7867-4418-9

OCLC:

426058547