Papal Primacy: From Its Origins to the Present

by Klaus Schatz SJ

Book Overview

Through the centuries, stories of popes and of the papacy from Catholic and non-Catholic perspectives, presented as biographies or as histories of an institution have boomed with the power of this often controversial office.

Whether as liberating truth which comes forth from the Church or as narrow perspective; whether as Rock of the Church" or "stumbling-block," primacy remains a reality at the heart of many ecclesiastical problems. Until...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081465522X
• ISBN13: 9780814655221
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"