Faith and Leadership

Michael P. Riccards

doi:10.5771/9780739171332

Summary

This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has adapted managerial models of the secular world and applied them to the Catholic Church. Since its emergence from the Jewish synagogues to a persecuted minority in the Roman Empire to becoming the established religion of the West, the Church and the papacy engaged the world on its own terms. It is only after the Council of Trent did the Church become somewhat more divorced and estranged from the environment around it. This book focused on those changes and on the great popes across the centuries who reformed and altered Catholicism. Special attention is directed to Gregory I, Innocent I, Innocent III, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXVII, Paul VI, and John Paul II. The conclusion is that the persistence of the Catholic Church for so many centuries was due to its ability to preserve the faith, but re-establish its forms and managerial class.

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Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7132-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7133-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 615
Product type: Book Titles

1. CONTENTS No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1 The Primitive Church No access Pages 1 - 12
2 From the Bishop of Rome to Pope (Peter to Leo the Great, 500 A.D.) No access Pages 13 - 28
3 The Threats to Orthodoxy No access Pages 29 - 38
4 Beyond the End of the Empire, 500–800 No access Pages 39 - 50
5 The Medieval Papacy Moves East No access Pages 51 - 60
6 From Abuses to Reforms, 800–1100 No access Pages 61 - 68
7 The Papal Monarchy, 1100–1500 No access Pages 69 - 80
8 The Worldly Popes No access Pages 81 - 110
9 The Protestant Reformation No access Pages 111 - 132
10 The Timidity of Reform No access Pages 133 - 154
11 The Catholic Reformation No access Pages 155 - 162
12 The Council as a Reform Movement No access Pages 163 - 178
13 Religious Wars and Religious Repression No access Pages 179 - 208
14 The Enlightenment No access Pages 209 - 222
15 The Church Confronts the Leviathan No access Pages 223 - 238
16 The Church and the Ancien Regime No access Pages 239 - 258
17 The Emperor’s Attacks on the Papacy No access Pages 259 - 274
18 Pius IX: The First Modern Pope No access Pages 275 - 296
19 Leo XIII: The Soul of the Industrial State No access Pages 297 - 322
20 Pius X: Moods of Piety and Repression No access Pages 323 - 340
21 Benedict XV and the Mad Dogs of War No access Pages 341 - 364
22 Pius XI and the New Men of Violence No access Pages 365 - 402
23 Pius XII and the Spiritual Twilight of the West No access Pages 403 - 438
24 John XXIII and the Promise of Aggiornamento No access Pages 439 - 474
25 Paul VI: The Perils of Aggiornamento No access Pages 475 - 524
26 John Paul II: The Uneasy Agenda of Restoration No access Pages 525 - 588
Postscript: Benedict XVI (2005– ) No access Pages 589 - 596
Conclusion No access Pages 597 - 600
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 601 - 602
Index No access Pages 603 - 614
About the Author No access Pages 615 - 615