Keepers of the keys of heaven
Subtitle: a history of the papacy
By: Roger Collins.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780465011957
Subjects: Papacy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bishop of Rome; title: Primacy is given to Peter; title: The successor of the fisherman; title: Peter himself; title: The two swords; title: Slave of the slaves of God; title: The keys of the Kingdom; title: Judging all men, judged by none; title: Our Mother of the Holy Roman Church; title: Free, chaste, and Catholic; title: The successor not of Peter but of Constantine; title: Less than God but greater than man; title: False guilt-laden Babylon; title: Three bishops on one seat; title: A leader of the world, not of the church; title: Beautiful as a dove; title: Sundial of the church; title: The last Pope; title: The last great thing left to Italy or Vice-God of humanity; title: The prisoner of the Vatican; title: The impregnable rock of Peter.