Author : Nicholas Atkin
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195219876
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)
Book Synopsis Priests, Prelates and People by : Nicholas Atkin
Download or read book Priests, Prelates and People written by Nicholas Atkin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years.