Faith and leadership : the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church

Faith and leadership : the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church / Michael P. Riccards.

This volume is the first major study of the papacy as a managerial structure that has evolved over two thousand years. Special emphasis is placed on the environments in which the Church functioned and in which it had to reach uneasy compromises. The volume is both scholarly and very readable.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riccards, Michael P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
Papacy > History.
Christian leadership > Catholic Church.
Authority > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
RELIGION > Christian Church > Leadership.
RELIGION > Leadership.
Authority > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Christian leadership > Catholic Church
Papacy
History
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Table of 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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