An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in
the modern age. Despite its many crises, especially in Western
Europe, there are still 1.2 billion Catholics in the world and the
Church remains a powerful, controversial and defiantly archaic
institution. After the French Revolution and the democratic
rebellions of 1848, the Church retreated, especially under Pius IX,
into a fortress of unreason, denouncing almost every aspect of
modern life, including liberalism and socialism. The Pope
proclaimed his infallibility; the cult of the Virgin Mary and her
apparitions to semi-illiterate shepherds became articles of faith;
the Vatican refused all accommodation with the modern state, until
a disastrous series of concordats with fascist states in the 1930s.
In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Dr Ambrogio A. Caiani
narrates the epic, fascinating, entertaining and horrifying history
of the Roman Catholic Church. It is an account of the Church's
fraught encounter with modernity in all its forms, from
representative democracy and the nation state to science,
literature and secular culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Apollo
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ambrogio A. Caiani
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
560 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80024-046-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80024-046-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781800240469 |
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