num_pages: 528
description: The Church is a lucid balanced and readable booka work of integration that is always reasonable well informed honest and deeply hopeful. Commonweal In The Church renowned religious historian and Vatican expert Richard P. McBrien offers a sweeping history of the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church its influence and power in an ever-changing world. From Jesuss apostle Peter to Pope Benedict XVI The Church is a remarkable achievement that delves deeply into the past and the future of Christianitys largest branchin fact the largest religious institution in the worldexploring its politics doctrines and the way the Roman Catholic Church views itself.
language: English
title: The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism
publisher: HarperOne