Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0195219872
ISBN 13
9780195219876
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
400
Description
Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
