Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
McGreevy, John T.2022
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In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years. Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror galvanised a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the Church's influence while bringing new tensions between a culturally diverse syncretism and the ultimate authority of Rome. The aspirations of the faithful for justice in this world - African Catholics fighting for independence, Latin Americans developing a theology of liberation, Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments - challenged the politically cautious.
Main title:
Catholicism : a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis / John T. McGreevy.
Author:
McGreevy, John T., author
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2022.
Collation:
528 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781324003885 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
282.09
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
525339
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