The Modern Papacy

by Samuel Gregg

Book Overview

Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. Modern Papacy goes beyond the caricatures to demonstrate how the popes - specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI - have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenment world, one that acknowledges the real progress made in modernity while simultaneously highlighting its political and philosophical shortcomings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441136843
• ISBN13: 9781441136848
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"