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Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300176880 |
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The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, not only shouldering the spiritual burdens of their ancient office, but also in contending with - and sometimes precipitating - the cultural and political crises of their times. In an acclaimed series of BBC radio broadcasts Eamon Duffy explored the impact of ten popes he judged to be among 'the most influential in history'. With this book, readers may now also enjoy Duffy's portraits of ten exceptional men who shook the world. The book begins with St Peter, the Rock upon whom the Catholic Church was built, and follows with Leo the Great (fifth century), Gregory the Great (sixth century), Gregory VII (eleventh century), Innocent III (thirteenth century), Paul III (sixteenth century), and Pius IX (nineteenth century). Among twentieth-century popes, Duffy examines the lives and contributions of Pius XII, who was elected on the eve of the Second World War, the kindly John XXIII, who captured the world's imagination, and John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in 450 years. Each of these ten extraordinary individuals, Duffy shows, shaped their own worlds, and in the process, helped to create ours.
Author | : Anthony McCarten |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250207916 |
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THE STORY BEHIND THE SCREENPLAY OF THE TWO POPES, THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS AND JONATHAN PRYCE (PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS THE POPE). From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour comes the fascinating and revealing tale of an unprecedented transfer of power, and of two very different men - who both happen to live in the Vatican. In February 2013, the arch-conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement: he would resign, making him the first pope to willingly vacate his office in over 700 years. Reeling from the news, the College of Cardinals rushed to Rome to congregate in the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. Their unlikely choice? Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,200 years, a one time tango club bouncer, a passionate soccer fan, a man with the common touch. Why did Benedict walk away at the height of power, knowing his successor might be someone whose views might undo his legacy? How did Francis - who used to ride the bus to work back in his native Buenos Aires - adjust to life as leader to a billion followers? If, as the Church teaches, the pope is infallible, how can two living popes who disagree on almost everything both be right? Having immersed himself in these men's lives to write the screenplay for The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten masterfully weaves their stories into one gripping narrative. From Benedict and Francis's formative experiences in war-torn Germany and Argentina to the sexual abuse scandal that continues to rock the Church to its foundations, to the intrigue and the occasional comedy of life in the Vatican, The Two Pope glitters with the darker and the lighter details of one of the world's most opaque but significant institutions.
Author | : Owen F. Cummings |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 172528894X |
Download Popes, Councils, and Theology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Do you wish to understand something of the contemporary Catholic Church? If you do, then this book is for you. It offers a careful overview of the history of the church from the mid-nineteenth century, with Pope Pius IX, until the present day, with Pope Francis. It deals with two major councils of the church, Vatican I (1869-70) and Vatican II (1962-65). Furthermore, it provides a detailed and accurate summary of the major theological movements in the church during this period.
Author | : John Reed |
Publisher | : Books Explorer |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Ten Days that Shook the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Owen F. Cummings |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532660111 |
Download John Henry Newman and His Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many books exist devoted to the life, thought, and writings of Blessed John Henry Newman, the premier Catholic theologian in nineteenth-century England. His influence has been enormous, perhaps especially on Vatican II (1962-65). This book is a Newman primer, and not only a primer about Newman himself, but also about his time and place in church history. It attends to the papacy during his lifetime, his companions and friends, some of his peers at Oxford University, the First Vatican Council (1869-70), as well as some of his writing and theology. It should be especially helpful to an interested reader who has no particular background in nineteenth-century church history or in Newman himself.
Author | : Brenda Ralph Lewis |
Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 190869632X |
Download Dark History of the Popes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From corruption to nepotism, from crusade to witch-burning to Inquisition, from popes sanctioning murder to popes being murdered, Dark History of The Popes explores more than 1000 years of sinister deeds surrounding the papacy.
Author | : Hugh Costello |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502624516 |
Download Pope John Paul II: Pontiff Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pope John Paul II has made a lasting impression not only on those belonging to the Catholic faith but also to people of differing religious backgrounds. An unlikely candidate for the papacy, Karol Wojty?a ascended St. Peters throne as the first non-Italian pope in 450 years. A harbinger of modernity and religious reform, Pope John Paul II revolutionized the Church during his reignone of the longest in papal history. This book features an exploration of Pope John Paul IIs pontificate as well as a brief history of the papacy.
Author | : Ada Masella |
Publisher | : Vmb Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788854003606 |
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Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300206127 |
Download Saints and Sinners Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fifty black-and-white and one hundred color illustrations accompany a history of the Papacy--the companion volume to a French-British television series--from its development after the execution of Peter to the reign of Pope John Paul II. UP.
Author | : Eamon Duffy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1472934377 |
Download Reformation Divided Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, 'the midwife of the modern world'. The book challenges these assumptions by tracing the ways in which the project of reforming Christendom from within, initiated by Christian 'humanists' like Erasmus and Thomas More, broke apart into conflicting and often murderous energies and ideologies, dividing not only Catholic from Protestant, but creating deep internal rifts within all the churches which emerged from Europe's religious conflicts. The book is in three parts: In 'Thomas More and Heresy', Duffy examines how and why England's greatest humanist apparently abandoned the tolerant humanism of his youthful masterpiece Utopia, and became the bitterest opponent of the early Protestant movement. 'Counter-Reformation England' explores the ways in which post-Reformation English Catholics accommodated themselves to a complex new identity as persecuted religious dissidents within their own country, but in a European context, active participants in the global renewal of the Catholic Church. The book's final section 'The Godly and the Conversion of England' considers the ideals and difficulties of radical reformers attempting to transform the conventional Protestantism of post-Reformation England into something more ardent and committed. In addressing these subjects, Duffy shines new light on the fratricidal ideological conflicts which lasted for more than a century, and whose legacy continues to shape the modern world.