Faith and leadership
Subtitle: the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church
By: Michael P. Riccards
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
ISBN-13: 9780739171325; 9780739171332
Subjects: Christian leadership; Papacy; Catholic Church; Authority; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The primitive church; title: From bishop to pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 a.d.); title: The threats to orthodoxy; title: Beyond the end of the empire, 500-800; title: The medieval papacy looks East; title: Abuses and reform, 800-1000; title: The papal monarchy, 1000-1500; title: The worldly popes; title: The Protestant Reformation; title: The timidity of reform; title: The Catholic Reformation; title: The council as a reform movement; title: Religious wars and religious repression; title: The Enlightenment; title: The church confronts the Leviathan; title: The church and the ancien regime; title: The emperor's attack on the papacy; title: Pius IX: the first modern Pope; title: Leo XIII: the soul of the industrial state; title: Pius X: moods of piety and repression; title: Benedict XV and the mad dogs of war; title: Pius XI and the new men of violence; title: Pius XII and the spiritual twilight of the West; title: John XXII and the promise of aggiornamento; title: Paul VI: the perils of aggiornamento; title: John Paul II: the uneasy agenda of restoration; title: Postscript: Benedict XVI.