The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform

by George Weigel

Book Overview

A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465094333
• ISBN13: 9780465094332
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"