The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism - Couverture souple

Weigel, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195166647 ISBN 13 : 9780195166644

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1992

Synopsis

Many Western commentators have identified the conflict between communism and consumerism as the key factor in the `Revolution of 1989' in eastern Europe. However, in this challenging new book, George Weigel argues that the real root of the Revolution lay in a radical rejection of what Vaclav Havel called communism's `culture of the lie'.

Beginning with the `martyr-cardinals' of the 1950s, Weigel considers the role of the Roman Catholic Church in opposing nearly forty years of Kremlin dictates, and examines why the Church was able to ensure the protest of 1989 was civil, nonviolent, and democratic. He also assesses the impact of the election of John Paul II on the Eastern Bloc, and looks at his `grand' strategy for Catholicism's third millennium and the place in it of a re-Christianized Europe.

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Author of Tranquillitas Ordinis (OUP 1987)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195166647
• ISBN 13: 9780195166644
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 255
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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