Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and
thought, updated and expanded throughout The Wiley Blackwell
Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the
history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written
by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference
work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and
cultural phenomena of Catholicism. Accessible chapters address
central topics in the practice of Catholic theology and the
development of doctrine, including God and Jesus Christ, creation
and Church, the Virgin Mary, the sacraments, moral theology,
eschatology, and more. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate
the unity and diversity of Catholic life and thought while
highlighting the ways Catholicism overlaps with, and transforms,
other ways of living and thinking. Now in its second edition, The
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism is fully updated to
include recent developments in the study of Catholicism.
Extensively revised and expanded chapters, many of which written by
new authors, address contemporary issues such as theology and
politics, environmentalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
Entirely new chapters cover the early modern Church, the Bible in
Catholic theology, the Eastern Catholic churches, liturgy, care for
creation, the consecrated life, challenges for the Catholic Church,
and more. An informed and engaging intellectual journey through the
past and present of Roman Catholicism, The Wiley Blackwell
Companion to Catholicism: Illustrates the diversity of modern
Catholic life and thought Describes Catholics in different lands,
including the Holy Land, India, Africa, Europe, the British Isles,
Asia, Oceania, and the Americas Surveys spirituality and ecumenism,
inter-religious dialog, Catholic schools and hospitals, art and the
sciences, the Holy See, and other central Catholic institutions and
practices Covers major eras in Catholic history, from the
Scriptures and the early Church to Post-Modernity Features new
material on diverse practices of Catholicism across cultures, the
global dimensions of the Catholic Church, race and ethnicity, and
Eastern Catholic Churches The Wiley Blackwell Companion to
Catholicism, Second Edition, is the ideal textbook for surveys
classes on Catholicism and Catholic theology in Catholic,
Protestant, and non-confessional colleges and universities. It is
also an invaluable resource for scholars and general readers
interested in broadening their knowledge of Catholicism.
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