Michael P. Riccards

Faith and Leadership (eBook, PDF)

The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church

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Produktbeschreibung

This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular world and applied them to the Catholic Church. Since its emergence from the Jewish synagogues to a persecuted minority in the Roman Empire to becoming the established religion of the West, the Church and the papacy engaged the world on its own terms. It is only after the Council of Trent did the Church become somewhat more divorced and estranged from the environment around it. This book focused on those changes and on the great popes across the centuries who reformed and altered Catholicism. Special attention is directed to Gregory I, Innocent I, Innocent III, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXVII, Paul VI, and John Paul II. The conclusion is that the persistence of the Catholic Church for so many centuries was due to its ability to preserve the faith, but re-establish its forms and managerial class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 638
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216297550
• Artikelnr.: 75141686

Autorenporträt

Michael P. Riccards is the Executive Director, the Hall Institute of Public Policy, Trenton, New Jersey. He has been a Board Member, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in New Jersey. He is the author of numerous books including: The Presidency and the Middle Kingdom, Ferocious Engine of Democracy: The American Presidency 1789-1989, and A Republic If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Primitive Church
Chapter 2: From Bishop to Pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 A.D.)
Chapter 3: The Threats to Orthodoxy
Chapter 4: Beyond the End of the Empire, 500-800
Chapter 5: The Medieval Papacy Looks East
Chapter 6: Abuses and Reform, 800-1000
Chapter 7: The Papal Monarchy, 1000-1500
Chapter 8: The Worldly Popes
Chapter 9: The Protestant Reformation
Chapter 10: The Timidity of Reform
Chapter 11: The Catholic Reformation
Chapter 12: The Council as a Reform Movement
Chapter 13: Religious Wars and Religious Repression
Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
Chapter 15: The Church Confronts the Leviathan
Chapter 16: The Church and the Ancien Regime
Chapter 17: The Emperor's Attack on the Papacy
Chapter 18: Pius IX: The First Modern Pope
Chapter 19: Leo XIII: The Soul of the Industrial State
Chapter 20: Pius X: Moods of Piety and Repression
Chapter 21: Benedict XV and the Mad Dogs of War
Chapter 22: Pius XI and the New Men of Violence
Chapter 23: Pius XII and the Spiritual Twilight of the West
Chapter 24: John XXII and the Promise of Aggiornamento
Chapter 25: Paul VI: The Perils of Aggiornamento
Chapter 26: John Paul II: The Uneasy Agenda of Restoration
Postscript: Benedict XVI
Conclusion