Aggiornamento?: Catholicism from Gregory XVI to Benedict XVI

by John Dick, Jürgen Mettepenningen, Karim Schelkens, et al.

Today many books appear regarding Vatican II. Yet, only very few of them manage to locate this crucial event in the life of the twentieth century Roman Catholic Church against the broad horizon of both its prehistory and its aftermath. This book does just that. In seven chapters, this volume offers a survey of the evolution of Post-Enlightenment Catholicism, in the period spanning from ca. 1830 to the present, tying together the renewals proposed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004254102
• ISBN13: 9789004254107
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"