The Complete Idiots Guide to the Popes and the Papacy - Couverture souple

Toropov, Brandon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0028642902 ISBN 13 : 9780028642901

Editeur : Alpha Books, 2002

Synopsis

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Popes and the Papacy offers a comprehensive look at the history, trials, and triumphs of the Bishops of Rome. This book offers an easy-to-understand historical survey of the papacy, which is among the oldest institutions on earth, and may well be the oldest continuous position of leadership in existence. It's all here: remarkable stories of popes who held immense power within the Church and popes who served as figureheads; popes who ruled as supreme authorities in their own right and popes who offered an inspired model of resistance to secular tyrannies; popes who lost sight of the dictates of their own faith and popes who set sublime moral and devotional examples to the world. The book offers history, trivia, and trends new and old -- as well as a look at the future of the office. This is an entertaining and enlightening look at one of the world's most remarkable jobs, one that has guided Catholicism for two millennia and wields an influence today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brandon Toropov is a Boston-based writer whose published works include: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Along With Difficult People. Macmillan, March 1997. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World's Religions, with Father Luke Buckles. Macmillan, August 1997. The Encyclopedia of Cold War Politics. Facts On File, Inc., July 2000. 50 Biggest Baseball Myths. Citadel Press, May 1997. How to Impress Anybody About Anything: Sound Smarter Than You Are About Everything from Aerodynamics to Zen Buddhism, with Leslie Hamilton. Citadel Press, December 1998. Who Was Eleanor Rigby el and 908 More Questions and Answers about the Beatles. HarperCollins, November 1996.

Mr. Toropov is also the author of a number of plays. These include Seven Affidavits on Authority, produced in Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, in 2000; An Undivided Heart, workshopped at the National Playwrights Conference in 1994; and The Job Search, produced at the Manhattan Punch Line in 1987.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alpha Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0028642902
• ISBN 13: 9780028642901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible